18st August - 20th August 2016,
Missing #
Bois-le-houx, Luitré, France
*Bivouac* was the dominant mindset supporting Auto-tune Settings for Medium-Sized Lake, a performance at the lake of Bois-le-Houx.
Invited to the Missing # - an experimental sound and architecture festival built and produced in the two weeks before its occurrence by its residents - a quick-answer protocol was required.
Charli Tapp offered a performative installation for which microphones aimed at the surface of the lake captured the sound of rocks bouncing on its surface. The sound was then processed to produce cascades of pitched-quantized melodies as a skipping-stone orchestra used the lake as one gigantic instrument.
At the intersection between land-art & landscape-responsive music, Auto-Tune Settings For Medium-Sized lake - a 30min piece - is scored yet fully dependant on the randomness of the water surface and the unpredictable nature of the physical act of stone-skipping, connecting the interprets fallibility with the environment”s unpredictability.