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Curated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino
Architecture: Hyoung-Gul Kook
Produced by Vranken Pommery Champagne, Reims<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n \n\n

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“The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait.  It endlessly produces folds. […] the Baroque trait twists and turns its folds, pushing them to infinity, folds over folds, one upon the other. The Baroque fold unfurls all the way to infinity […] moving along two infinities, as if infinity were composed of two stages or floors: the pleats of matter and the folds in the soul. […] a great Baroque montage that moves between the lower floor, pierced with windows, and the upper floor, blind, and closed, but on the other hand resonating as if it were a musical salon translating the visible movements below into sounds up above.” – Gilles Deleuze  from \u201cThe Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque\u201d, 1992 [\u201cLe Pli: Leibniz et le Baroque\u201d, 1988]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The fold<\/em>, as a multi-layered metaphor for the relationship between mind and matter, inspires plis\/replis<\/em>. The installation is made up of a highly geometric, folded and suspended structure that amplifies the experiences and metaphors of champagne. The primary structure, a 10 x 10 x 12m cone suspended in a pyramid, underground cave (a \u201ccray\u00e8res\u201d) – one of the largest cray\u00e8res of Vranken-Pommery’s 18km long underground system of corridors and caves dating back to Roman times.  This architectural augmentation of the space also serves as a functional loud speaker.  A glass platform suspended at the focal point within the cone holds a vessel filled with champagne. Using the actual sounds of effervescence picked up by a special microphone immersed in the champagne vessel, a real-time analysis\/synthesis audio system creates a continually evolving sound environment, diffused downward from above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The architectural design of this work combines ancient paper folding techniques with contemporary computer-aided-design and manufacturing processes. The form is inspired by mathematician and origami expert Taketoshi Nojima, especially his work reproducing organic forms from folded paper. Our collaboration with architect Hyoung-Gul Kook allowed us to design, fabricate and assemble this suspended 345 cubic-meter structure from 285 flat sheets of aluminum\/polyethylene composite, precisely folded 2,535 times. This structure acoustically amplifies the sound from a single speaker-driver in order to create an enclosed space that bathes the listener in its center in sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour La Fabrique sonore, Robin Meier et Ali Momeni<\/a> con\u00e7oivent une nouvelle gamme de sons. Les deux artistes, \u00e9galement musiciens, mettent en commun leurs diff\u00e9rentes ressources et cr\u00e9ent un dispositif amplifiant et \u00e9tirant dans le temps et dans l\u2019espace le son de l\u2019effervescence du champagne diffus\u00e9 \u00e0 travers un haut-parleur monumental. Passionn\u00e9s de formes organiques et biologiques, pour l’\u00e9laboration de la forme de ce pavillon sonore, Meier et Momeni ont utilis\u00e9 des formes comme l’organisation d’une pomme de pin ou des graines de tournesol.
\nInspir\u00e9s par les travaux de l’artiste origami et math\u00e9maticien japonais Taketoshi Nojima, les deux jeunes artistes, avec l’aide de l’architecte Hyoung-Gul Kook<\/a>, ont traduit la fragilit\u00e9 de l\u2019origami \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle d\u2019une cray\u00e8re. D\u00e9tournant le son microscopique du champagne, Meier et Momeni, explorent l’acoustique de ce pavillon d\u00e9pli\u00e9 et de la cray\u00e8re tout en conviant le public \u00e0 une pluie de bulles sonoris\u00e9es. – Claire Staebler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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