Künstler-Porträts und Statements

3. Yannick Dauby, Nizza/Frankreich



Thema: Wüste ("Sounding Sands from Deserts / Songs of the dunes")
Thema: Sounds from stones and whispers ("In Dolem") (mit Michael Northam aka mnortham)

Brief Portrait:

- 1974 born in Nice, France
- 1994-2001 electroacoustic composition studies - diplôme d'études musicales
(D.E.M.) - Conservatoire National de Région de Nice - C.I.R.M.
- 1995-1997 ethnomusicology studies - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
- 1995-1998 musicology studies - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
- 1996-2002 Le Silence des Sirènes - non-profit organization devoted to audio/video
arts and techniques.
- since 1999 sound assistant in AudioLab studio - École Pilote Internationale d'Art et
de Recherche - Villa Arson - Nice, France
- 2000 2nd prize from Luigi Russolo Foundation, category 'Radio work' for Noophonie
- 2001 pizMO : laptop trio with Jérome Joy and Julien Ottavi
- 2001 Entrelacs : duet with Michael Northam
- 2002 participation in Collège Invisible, art school of Marseille (ESBAM)

Text for the CD "Chant de Dune" (Yannick Dauby 1999)

Sounding sands are found in many places in the whole world. This rare natural phenomenon, is represented most of the time by beaches, whose sand is squeaking when it is struck or pushed. However, in some deserts, we meet some large dunes which have a more astonishing activity. Sand avalanches, mostly provocated by the wind, create very deep sounds, extremely powerful, accompanied by tremors and lasting for several minutes. Unexplained, these singings from the desert are despicted like roarings, voices from surnatural beings or the rumbling of the thunder. Chant de Dune is a free sounding transcription of the differents stages of the formation of these singing sands : wind that sweep the desert, accumulation of grains, transformation of the dune.

reference: Le Silence des Sirènes

Künstler:

Franziska Baumann

Jonathan Coleclough

Yannick Dauby

Pieter Duimelinks

Klaus Filip

Mick Harris

Kapotte Muziek

Andrew McKenzie

Thomas Köner

Roel Meelkop

Carsten Nicolai

NÍD

Michael Northam

Giancarlo Toniutti

Frans De Waard

Oscar Wiggli