Conte pour radio et robinets

Conte pour radio et robinets (2004) by Arno Fabre is an extension of the sound installation Composition pour 3 radios (2003), a poetic and sensitive metaphor that materialises the idea of radiophonic rain.

“Like the washroom in the boarding house of my lycée, a row of taps emerges from the shadows. Naturally, they drip. Above, in place of mirrors, radios face us. The speaker wires are cut and stripped.

In their fall, the drops briefly restore electrical contact and the radios broadcast scraps of sound. In the manner of a sequencer-tap-scratch, the radio flow is chopped and mixed without mercy. The weather forecast rubs shoulders with a Bach cantata, the Top 50, the sports results, the latest terrorist attack and washing-powder adverts: a tale for radios and taps.

The volume is low; you have to move around and lend an attentive ear.”

AF

Conte pour radios et robinets from Arno Fabre on Vimeo.