Installation : Raplapla
Artist : Lynn Pook
Country : France / Germany

Raplapa is a term in the French colloquial language, referring both to physical flatness and to physical and emotional exhaustion. Observing the effects of intense festival situations the energising effects of the audiotactile system upon the spectators, I wanted to create a more comfortable, distracting and unusual viewpoint for the them in an exhibition space.

This sound installation brings about a perception of sound different from that which is generally experienced. The participient is requested to lie in a hammock, wired in such a way as to make sounds resonate throughout his or her entire body.

Fourteen loudspeakers are positioned in two hammocks, touching different parts of the extended body. In this way, the vibrations from the loudspeakers become manifest and the sounds are carried, via the bones, to the inner ear. Our most intimate space becomes a resonance body and a changing sound sculpture.

The composition has been created with Julien Clauss.