Phonoscopie (sound massage)

Project Description

Phonoscopie is a project of “sound massage” by Thierry Madiot and Yanick Miossec, two French musicians from impro, free-jazz and electroacoustic (Madiot plays trombone and other brass, Miossec plays clarinet and prepared guitar). A crossover between a mini-concert and real body massage, Phonoscopie is an instrumental–sound installation for six listeners – patients at a time in which the two musicians using sound objects of various kinds, immerse the listener in a unique sensory world that slides from near to far, from the familiar to the unknown, giving the experience of a fascinating and totally relaxing journey. Active for many years in improvised music and performance, Thierry Madiot and Yanick Miossec have begun to deepen the practice of sound massage in 2004, by first using only acoustic “concrète” sound objects from the world of music and everyday life, then also including “electronic” objects as speakers and printers, so as to interact with the acoustic and electric including small compositions created ad-hoc. After ten years of innovations and experiments Phonoscopie has now become a real contemporary “instrumentarium”, in which the spatial dimension of sound is not just a research matter, but actual bodily experience, and the sound itself becomes a nice wellness mean. Produced with the support of the DICRÈAM and DRAC, Phonoscopie has been presented at many festivals in France (Sonic Protest, The Audible, Musiques Demesurées, Muzzix) and now at Flussi, finally, for the first time, outside France.