Festival Art Souterrain

Florence-Delphine Roux uses soundscape recordings primarily captured outdoors to explore the transformation and recomposition of reality through sound. Her practice sits at the intersection of experimentation and attentive listening, revealing unexpected acoustic textures and examining the interplay between space, matter, and perception. By reinterpreting these sound fragments, she creates an immersive experience that challenges our relationship with the landscape and the unseen. In her exploratory approach, sound becomes a malleable medium shaped by interactions with space.

Her performance, Géophonia Drift, offers an immersive journey into a universe that is generally imperceptible yet omnipresent in our lives and homes. In a world inundated with wireless networks and countless waves, the piece highlights the significance of recognizing this intrusion that has become crucial to our daily existence.

Through her sculptural antennae, Roux investigates the space saturated with digital communications, picking up distant waves that reveal a third space shaped by hidden sounds and signals. During the performance, she takes over the FM and short-wave radio spectrum and rebroadcasts it to the audience via several small recycled radios. By playing with the imperceptible and the unexpected, the artist composes soundscapes that transcend their original context, opening up new sensory perspectives and creating a tension between auditory perception and imagination. Her goal is to offer the audience an experience in which listening becomes both a sensory act and an exploration, moving away from the fixity of sound to engage with the invisible.

Roux is an emerging digital and sound artist from Quebec City, currently based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. She holds a Master’s degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Villa Arson in Nice, France, which she obtained with honours. Her work has been exhibited at the Galerie de la Marine (France), Perte de Signal artist-run center (Montréal), and numerous group exhibitions in Monaco, Montreal, and the Quebec underground experimental music scene.