Exposition

Absurd Sounds (2021)

Yann Coppier
open exposition

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.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsAbsurd sounds, sound art, innovation through meaning, virtual reality, invisible choreography, silence, sweet spot, real virtuality, worms, recording spaces, recording technique
date22/05/2021
published23/05/2021
last modified23/05/2021
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationThe Danish National School of Performing Arts
copyrightYann Coppier 2021
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/820939/821145
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.820939
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue23. 23


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822899 A11 - Recording worms2 - resized Harvesting 3 All rights reserved
822908 A32 - Concert for Worms Jacob Remin 2017 All rights reserved
823251 A02 - Silent wave Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
823288 A01 - Anechoic chamber - resized Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
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824009 A03 - Harbor full - resized Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
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824035 A31 - Worms 1 Anders Sune Berg 2016 All rights reserved
824057 A16 - Recording worms1 - resized Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
824070 A07 - harvesting the rare earth sound sources Jacob Remin 2017 All rights reserved
824076 A08 - Zophobas morio André Karwath All rights reserved
824078 B24 - Poster Who resized Luc Perez 2019 All rights reserved
824262 A06 - Harbor silenced 48 Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
824364 B02 - Efterklangstid Eddy Bøgh Brixen 2018 All rights reserved
824419 B01 - Sweet spot deproducerschool.nl All rights reserved
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824504 B03 - Tower 1 resized Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
824507 B04 - Tower 2 resized Ditte Rønn-Poulsen 2017 All rights reserved
824522 B05 - Inside an architect's dream Yann Coppier / Ditte Rønn-Poulsen 2017 All rights reserved
824563 B07 - Marble Hall 1 Yann Coppier 2018 All rights reserved
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826274 B14 - Marbles Binaural 16 Yann Coppier 2018 All rights reserved
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826566 B15 - flat mini module Yann Coppier 2018 All rights reserved
826573 B17 - Invisible Choreography 1 Yann Coppier / Kitt Johnson 2018 All rights reserved
826576 B19 - Invisible Choreography 2 Yann Coppier / Kitt Johnson 2018 All rights reserved
826579 B16 - Sound Costumes resized Charlotte Østergaard 2018 All rights reserved
826583 B18 - Visible Choreography resized Yann Coppier 2018 All rights reserved
826603 B20 - Omnipresence Xavier Descarpentries 2020 All rights reserved
826607 B23 - Human Migrations Yann Coppier / Dana Alshihaby / Cahit Ece / Babak Vakili 2018 All rights reserved
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827596 B25 - Who's Speaking Tim Panduro 2019 All rights reserved
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830214 C18 - the Unity Model Yann Coppier 2019 All rights reserved
830217 C19 - the Real Model Tim Panduro 2019 All rights reserved
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830766 C30 - Balloon massage Viktor Emil Dahl Tychsen 2018 All rights reserved
830779 C26 - Center Rune Brink Hansen 2019 All rights reserved
830782 C27 - CenterSide Rune Brink Hansen 2019 All rights reserved
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830798 C32 - Runar - resized Yann Coppier 2019 All rights reserved
830800 C33 - The Drops-desktop Yann Coppier / Runar Magnusson 2019 All rights reserved
831032 C26 - Play Button Yann Coppier 2020 All rights reserved
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832458 A12 - Some Worms noise extract (Orm 7 SCHOEPS M NR extracted) Yann Coppier 2016 All rights reserved
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832467 A14 - Worms T21 stereo belly derustle Yann Coppier 2016 All rights reserved
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832858 A21 - Extra red worms - resized Yann Coppier 2017 All rights reserved
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833093 A28 - a vitrine with e-waste lousdpeaker in the back Anders Sune Berg 2017 All rights reserved
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