Agraphon

Drawing from the poetic novel “Agrapha” de Luvan (La Volte, 2020), the sound creation AGRAPHON unfolds its universe.

We travel back in time. We steep ourselves in the essence of what the 10th century might have been: its thought, its rhythms, its birds, the deeply sensitive experience of existing among trees. And if none of this is written—Agrapha—between the lines, one might just feel space opening up, allowing for a sudden closeness to distant beings—very distant, very alive.

Here, the breaths of fauna and murmurs of vegetation intertwine with primitive and naturalistic sound phrases, shaping a landscape of heightened sensitivity. Field recordings and spoken words weave together, forming a vibrant, organic material. Echoes, ricochets, counterpoints: a delicate plunge into a world gradually tipping into a fantastical realm of silt and shifting tectonics.

At the crossroads of words and sounds, with closed eyes, listening invites the senses to unfold—revealing that a territory is never more than a score, a fleeting horizon bursting open. The exploration thus extends, like a secret yet offered initiation, where two times intertwine in three movements. A reverse side woven with invisible forces, animal languages, vegetal sensations, apocryphal waves, and elemental music. An immaterial echo speaking to the world of today.

A B Side offers a version without human voices.

With the voices of: Floriane Benjamin, Brigitte Cloarec, Danielle Coadou, Babeth Coste de Geyer, Josette Flot, Marie-Paule Le Pourhiet, luvan, Cécile Marion, Floriane Pochon, Françoise Rouland, Maïa Thibaut, Emmanuelle Trocheris, Francesca Villette.

⇒ Special thanks to l’Abbaye de Beauport et l’Herbe Folle, Françoise Le Moine & Terry Fairhead, Ensemble Cairn and, Philharmonie de Paris, editions La Volte.

2022 – 2024, ABBAYE DE BEAUPORT, Paimpol : Residencies, performed readings with L’Herbe Folle volunteers, sound and visual installation with the Human Fabric collective and ceramic artist Émilie Pedron.