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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: Acoustic and Generative Sound Installations

Primary Source: https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Celeste_Boursier-Mougenot/12
Author: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot · Year: 2010 · Publisher: Galerie Perrotin / Barbican Centre

Summary

Overview of French sound artist and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation practice (notably ‘clinamen’ and ‘from here to ear’), which orchestrates live acoustic environments through floating porcelain bowls in pools or zebra finches landing on electric guitars.

Key Points

• Autonomous Acoustic Systems: Everyday objects (crockery, live animals, water currents) become generative instruments creating unpredictable musical scores.
• Sonification of Environmental Forces: Water circulation and natural motion replace predefined electronic algorithms with physical aleatory mechanics.
• Immersive Spatial Resonance: Blurs the boundaries between visual sculpture, biological habitat, and real-time sonic composition.

Mentioned Pages

Entities

• celeste-boursier-mougenot

Concepts

• generative-sound-installation
• acoustic-sonification
• physical-computing-mechanics