Absurd Sounds

Yann Coppier

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Absurd Sounds (2021)

Yann Coppier

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About this exposition

Absurd (derived from surdus, or deaf, in Latin): that which cannot be heard or is contradictory to reason. This artistic research project questions the ways we work with sound, using a methodology derived from the absurd as a tool for innovation. The scientific roots of sound as a physical phenomenon are rarely disputed, whether by sound artists, sound designers, sound technicians, or even composers. Yet this trust in the knowledge built by acousticians, so complex and yet so simple as it mostly limits the characteristics of sound to amplitude, pitch, timbre, and envelope, might lead to an incapacity to look any other way. Have we missed, as artists, the opportunity to question the underlying axioms beneath the science of sound? This research uses a method based on the rejection — or, better, a questioning — of established rules and ideas (e.g., ‘what if silence were a building tool with which we carved music and sounds into blocks of noise?’), followed by a series of logical developments until some new technique, idea, or even form of art emerges. Such a method somehow adopts the principles behind conspiracy theories and applies them to art: absurd premises followed by logical developments. The present exposition develops a set of three case studies built between 2017 and 2020, each one answering its own absurd question: the harvesting of rare sounds made by worms (what if silence were louder than noise?); an experiment carried out on humans, by loudspeakers sitting as members of the audience (what if there were no ‘sweet spot’?); and an attempt to blur the lines between the real and the virtual, while developing new ways to document sound art (what if there were no (virtual) reality?). Cover photo for the exposition 'Absurd Sounds' by Anders Sune Berg, 2017.

type	research exposition
keywords	Absurd sounds, sound art, innovation through meaning, virtual reality, invisible choreography, silence, sweet spot, real virtuality, worms, recording spaces, recording technique
date	22/05/2021
published	23/05/2021
last modified	23/05/2021
status	published
affiliation	The Danish National School of Performing Arts
copyright	Yann Coppier 2021
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/820939/821145
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.820939
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	23. 23

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name	A16 - Recording worms1 - resized
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name	A11 - Recording worms2 - resized
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name	A32 - Concert for Worms
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name	A02 - Silent wave
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name	A01 - Anechoic chamber - resized
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name	A03 - Harbor full - resized
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name	A04 - Harbor truncated - resized
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name	A05 - Harbor 48
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name	A15 - Sonic Dramaturgy in the expanded field
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name	A07 - harvesting the rare earth sound sources
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name	A06 - Harbor silenced 48
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name	A02 - Silent wave
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name	A18 - One Worm extract (Orm 3 GRAS NR)
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name	A13 - Worms T21 stereo NR extra rustle
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name	A25 - Worms T11 stereo NR
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name	A27 - worm Mix1
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name	A29 - wormbeatings
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name	A19 - One worm - resized
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name	A09 - Several worms - resized
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name	A21 - Extra red worms - resized
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name	A28 - a vitrine with e-waste lousdpeaker in the back
copyright	Anders Sune Berg 2017
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name	A30 - a vitrine with a telephone
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name	A26 - Micro world - resized small
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name	A08 - Zophobas morio
copyright	André Karwath
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name	Oh ! it's snowing... (-i snor)
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name	D01 - Zophobas morio
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name	B24 - Poster Who resized
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name	B02 - Efterklangstid
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name	B01 - Sweet spot
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name	B06 - Architect plan
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name	B03 - Tower 1 resized
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name	B04 - Tower 2 resized
copyright	Ditte Rønn-Poulsen 2017
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name	B05 - Inside an architect's dream
copyright	Yann Coppier / Ditte Rønn-Poulsen 2017
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name	B07 - Marble Hall 1
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name	B08 - Marble Hall2
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name	B10 - Board Binaural
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name	B12 - Marbles Binaural 8
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name	B16 - Sound Costumes resized
copyright	Charlotte Østergaard 2018
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name	B18 - Visible Choreography resized
copyright	Yann Coppier 2018
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name	B20 - Omnipresence
copyright	Xavier Descarpentries 2020
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name	B31 - The sea part two
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name	B33 - Requiem for three grand pianos in a very big room
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name	B25 - Who's Speaking
copyright	Tim Panduro 2019
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name	D03 - Sweet spot
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name	B15 - flat mini module
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name	B15c - a room in a room in a room
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name	B16 - Sleeping Machine
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name	B17 - Invisible Choreography short
copyright	Yann Coppier / Kitt Johnson 2019
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name	C12 - Virtual Hybrid MIX
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name	C10 - HybridPrototype 1
copyright	Carl Emil Carlsen / Yann Coppier 2018
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name	C11 - HybridPrototype 2
copyright	Carl Emil Carlsen / Yann Coppier 2018
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name	C08 - Harvesting
copyright	Yann Coppier 2017
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name	C01 - Virtual reality
copyright	Peter + Maria Hoey 2015
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name	C02 - Sofa Corner
copyright	Anders Sune Berg 2017
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name	C03 - Podiums and room
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name	C04 - in between rooms
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name	C05 - To the worms
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name	C06 - Lab overview
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name	C14 - Invisible Marbles-desktop
copyright	Yann Coppier 2018
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name	C15 - the Model
copyright	Johan Kølkjær 2019
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name	C18 - the Unity Model
copyright	Yann Coppier 2019
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name	C19 - the Real Model
copyright	Tim Panduro 2019
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name	C22 - Pop Yourself - resized
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name	C21 - Store Scene virtual - resized
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name	C24 - SPAT 2 - resized
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name	C25 - Flow over me_MIX
copyright	Yann Coppier 2019
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name	C29 - Balloon 1
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name	C26 - Center
copyright	Rune Brink Hansen 2019
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name	C27 - CenterSide
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name	C28 - Side
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name	C26 - Play Button
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name	C26 - Pause Button
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name	C34 - Edition#1 - a soft fall
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name	C35 - Tower Sketch 5
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name	C36 - Recording the installation - resized
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name	C48 - polar roof 3
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name	C49 - Walkthrough
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name	D03 - Tower Sketch 5
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name	B29 - Popcorn expansion
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name	C30 - Yann & Liv
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name	C43b - a virtual roof
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