documentary - je mets mon scaphandre - IKF Goethe-Institut

Описание: Filmed by Alex Roberts 14.10.2025

Commissioned by the IKF of the Goethe Institute

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Composition, Live Electronics: John Aulich
Sound Reactive Light Design: José del Avellanal Carreño
Performance (Bassoon): Olivia Palmer-Baker

Sponsored by the Internationaler Koproduktionfonds (Goethe-Institut) and Hinrichsen Foundation

Supported by The University of Edinburgh, Musikakademie Rheinsberg, Kollektiv UNRUHE, KLANGZEITORT Berlin.

Performances to date:
Black Box, Belfast (13.10.25)
St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh (15.10.25)
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester (17.10.25)

Performances of bassoon and ambisonics version to date:
Carl-Flesch-Saal, Berlin (15.03.25)
((NYT)) art space, Berlin (17.03.25)
Modulart, Basel (25.05.25)
Noiseberg # 121, Berlin (5.10.25)

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Video - Alex Roberts
Audio - John Aulich, Louis McHugh

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je mets mon scaphandre is a new 40-minute immersive work for hyper-amplified bassoon, ambisonics, and sound-reactive light design. The piece's vivid and dynamic soundscape draws on the feminist theory of the ‘leaky body,’ which invites us to view the human body as fluid and amorphous. Here, the built-in spatiality and the leaky, unstable nature of the bassoon are brought into dialogue with this theory through sound and light.

As with a leaky body, the physical boundaries of the bassoon dissolve: sound is recorded internally, on the surface of the instrument, and externally with specially designed microphones, whose signals constantly overlap. The piece explores the crossing of boundaries and plays with how sound and air escape from the instrument, the resulting effects of which become apparent through how sound and light transform, influenced by the space, the acoustics and the audience.