Acoustic Cameras

Sound annexation project

What is Acoustic Cameras?
The image you see is a real time stream from a live webcam located somewhere on the planet. The sound was specially created for this stream by an artist invited by the Acoustic Cameras collective.

How does it work?
The invited artist chooses a camera among the thousands of live webcams proposed by the Acoustic Cameras collective. He/she composes a music and/or a sound piece for this camera. The AC team aggregates the sound and the camera and puts them online.

The webcams’ flow is intercepted but not modified. The artist is invited to deliver a sound or musical piece related to this flow; this piece acting as a modification of reality. The resulting work thus created is the encounter of a recorded sound piece and the live capture of a fluctuating landscape. Depending on the season, on the weather, on the time of day or night, the camera continuously scans the filmed place (seaside, city or mountain) and writes in real time the film of the artist’s music. The music, the sound design, by monopolizing the filmed landscape, soon takes on a narrative, dramatic dimension, according to the principles of music in cinema. The only difference is that here the film is written simultaneously.

Acoustic Cameras is an artistic project in the form of a website, created on January 1, 2016. To date, more than 100 international artists - composers, poets, sound artists - participate.
Stay tuned ! Acoustic Cameras expands continually, regularly enriched with new works of artists.

Marine Perin & Lise Sourice

Glass Lodge

Campinas - Brazil

lat.: -22.905560, long.: -47.06083

About the work

Subliminal crystal or infraliminal silica, it is an unclear riddle…
Let’s talk about parapsychiac skylight made in Twin Peaks.
A glass den or sybillin case, the box annoys simply because an upside down direction comes out.
We don’t know where, who, why, “art or pig”, oh well.
That said, the picture is clear. A glass case, a light and nothing more, that’s all.
This surprising scene blow your mind and disappoints until, through the glass, something arises, or not.

Cristal subliminal ou silice infraliminale, c'est une devinette peu nette...
Parlons plutôt de lucarne parapsychique à la Twin Peaks.
Une tanière en verre ou écrin sibyllin, la boîte embête car simple un sens sans dessus dessous en ressort.
On ne sait d'où, de qui, de pourquoi, de l'art ou du cochon, mais bon.
Ceci dit, l'image est claire. Une caisse en verre, une lumière et rien de plus, voilà basta.
Cette surprenante scène assonante époustoufle et déçoit jusqu'à ce qu'au travers du verre, survienne, ou pas, un cas.

About the artist

Marine Perin
Born another century ago, she has the age of my sister and is from around Paris (might as well says from Paris but then she gets mad).
She’s very old, and it shows ( a lot), 22 years already.
She’s very tall too, way more than me.
She likes doing peotic videos and night city photography.
She dreams of cars and psychopathtic clowns, She should consult.
She also studied animation for 2 years, but it doesn’t matter because now she is in an art school.
She’s slow because she takes her time and we always have to wait after her.
There you go. Also she is realy funny and accommadating, imaginative and a philanthropist. And that is good to know.

Lise Sourice
Born not too long ago among cows, she “mooves” (moves, moo, get it?) all the time, talks too much, and dreams about her mom killing dinosaurs.
She loves wordplay, fishs and Boris Vian.
The more something sounds stupid and looks ugly for the rest of the world the more she loves it.
Obviously her most beloved friend is Jacky the fly, her drawn character.
She’s coming from Normandy, where she has lived there all her life.
She’s entering our art school right after high school, and she’s messing around, but in the end it always makes sense, is detailed and stays true to herself.
You get the picture.
And now there she is, providing you with a sound about the surnatural and the fear of the invisible.
Well then, enjoy.

Marine Perin
Née il y a un autre siècle, elle a l’âge de ma soeur et est de région parisienne (autant dire de Paris mais ça l’agace de dire ça).
Elle est très vielle et ça se voit (beaucoup) de déjà 22 ans (et toutes ses dents).
Elle est très grande aussi, bien plus que moi.
Elle aime faire des vidéos poétiques et des photos de ville la nuit.
Elle rêve de voiture et de clowns psychopathes, je pense qu’elle devrait consulter.
Elle a aussi étudié l’animation mais pas celle qu’on fait avec les enfants. En fait, elle à fait deux prépas mais c’est pas tant utile de le savoir puisque maintenant elle est à l’ésam Caen / Cherbourg.
Elle est lente parce qu’elle prend son temps et on doit toujours l’attendre, mais ça vaut le coup d’être patient parce qu’elle à beaucoup de talent.
Voilà… Aussi elle est très rigolote et conciliante, imaginative et philanthrope. Et ça c’est utile à savoir.

Lise Sourice
Née il y a peu au milieu des vaches, elle bouge sans cesse, parle à tout bout de champ et imagine sa maman tuer des dinosaures en rêve.
Elle adore les jeux de mots, les poissons et Boris Vian.
Plus quelque chose semble stupide et moche pour le reste du monde plus elle l’aime. D’où Jacky la mouche, son personnage dessiné et son plus fidèle compagnon.
Elle “vient de Normandie ma gueule” où elle y a passé toute sa vie.
Elle a accédé à l’ésam Caen / Cherbourg directement après le lycée et fait un peu n’importe quoi, mais toujours avec cohérence, pertinence et reste fidèle à elle même.
Vous voyez le tableau.
La voici maintenant à vous proposer un son vous plongeant dans le surnaturelle et la peur de l’invisible.
Sur-ce, bonne écoute.

Coming soon!

Marine Perin & Lise Sourice

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