Sonic Theatres

Sonic Theatres wants to develop an auditive complicity between performer and spectator. We invite the audience to follow the trajectories of two performers: the performers wearing binaural microphones attached to their ears, the audience wearing headphones. With a refined sense of hearing, the audience experiences the city through the performers. The spectators are transposed into an alternative sensory landscape, listening with "new ears” to the streets, the architecture, the traffic, the people and the history of their surroundings. Because the sounds are coming from someone else’s ears, they are unfamiliar; they don’t exactly fit the picture. A new sonic interpretation is being weaved. Visual and auditive horizons collide, overlap, entangle and disentangle; structuring and being structured by the performers, listening and movement locked in the same intent.

Thus, an intimate environment opens up, very similar to the way in which sound in films allows us to empathize with the images. The performers guide the audience through scenes, where the cityscape becomes the scenography and the urban noises the soundtrack. The performers bring the audience along with their movements and presence, walking through their own intimate story. In this story, the surroundings are not what they look like and are not what they sound like. Unexpected corners turn into improvised stages. Locations, with its architectural and auditive qualities, eventually become visual and sonic theatres. Background sounds, movements and sensations become hyper real. While going from one scene to the next, a sonic complicity brings closer performer and spectator.