Alan Affichard

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Fluid Synthis an installation made up of glass and ceramic pieces from which sound is produced and amplified by the action of air and water. Part archaeological fragment, part sound laboratory, the work explores the close links between science and craft in instrument-making. This approach involved several collaborations: with Lana Ruellan and Richard Colin for the ceramics, and with Ludovic Petit, a specialist in scientific glassmaking. Inspired by ancient instruments and scientific experiments, these objects meet and interact in the installation as a result of phenomena of vibration and transduction, bringing into play different types of forces as methods of composition, whether thermal, fluid, acoustic or algorithmic.

Alan Affichard

In his work, Alan Affichard questions the place of sound practices in contemporary art and their possible points of friction with craft, science and new technologies. The fruit of meticulous research, the sound devices and instruments he makes bring into play physical and acoustic forces as a method of musical composition. They are activated in the form of performances or immersive installations, the aim being not only to explore new ways of producing sound, but also to propose new ways of listening to it.

After obtaining a DNSEP in France at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes (2016), he joined the Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin (2017), and then did a Post-Master on sound practices at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2018-2019).

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