{"id":747,"date":"2011-09-28T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robinmeier.net\/?p=747"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:25:28","slug":"pommery-9-la-fabrique-sonore-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinmeier.net\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"“plis\/replis” : Pommery #9 \u2013 La Fabrique Sonore (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robin Meier and Ali Momeni
\nin collaboration with Hyoung-Gul Kook (architect)
\nCurated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino
\nfor Vranken Pommery Monopole, Reims<\/h4>\n

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“The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait. \u00a0It 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.”\u00a0– Gilles Deleuze \u00a0from \u201cThe Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque\u201d, 1992 [\u201cLe Pli: Leibniz et le Baroque\u201d, 1988]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The\u00a0fold<\/em>, as a multi-layered metaphor for the relationship between mind and matter, inspires\u00a0plis\/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. \u00a0This architectural augmentation of the space also serves as a functional loud speaker. \u00a0A 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

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\t\t