Maïa Blondeau (Fr)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

« …Ne restera qu’une onde » (Sóng âm thanh) (creation)

“A necessity has come to me: to take care of the voices that are close to me, and that will die before mine, to protect them from my forgetfulness, thanks to digital memory. The sound, both melodic and abrupt, like rough fragments, is present in loop, synchronous with the video, also in loop. For the first time, the two voices exist together, in a carefully crafted story. I filmed these images during the summer of 2016, during my trip to Vietnam. At the meeting point of memory, alteration, thickness and abstraction, the image is abandoned of its details. The meaning of time is variable, depending on whether one is in the world of metaphors, or that one is in our world, that of mortals. ” Maïa Blondeau

With the support of Transcultures and ARTS². As part of the Émergences numériques et sonores program.
Special thanks to Stéphane Kozik.

Biography

Between France and Belgium, Vietnam and Corsica, Maïa Blondeau weaves the threads of all her artistic practices. After her few years of violin at the Conservatoire de Nice, she discovered the instrument that still accompanies her now: the saxophone. Since her arrival in Belgium, Maïa Blondeau plays in afree improvisation, which is her favorite place to go to, from written music to improvised music, from the learned form to noise music.

In order to refine her writing, in 2016 she joined Denis Pousseur’s class, Composition for Applied Music, a transdisciplinary class at the crossroads of music towards the image, for theater, and music in visual arts. In 2017, Maïa Blondeau integrates the Visual Arts section into the framework of her courses at the art school of Mons Arts². She proposes a first media installation, The Ghetto of the Lab. Selected by Transcultures in its Emergences Numériques & Sonores program, she participates with this installation in various exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.