Jours d’eau

The book-CD JOURS D’EAU reports an exchange between the multimedia artist Leah Singer (artist/video artist) and Lee Ranaldo (musician/poet, co-founder of the New York rock band Sonic Youth)
The audio CD JOURS D’EAU is an unreleased sound piece — made as part of the Atelier de création radiophonique (ACR) on France Culture. It questions the main components of sonic texture – space, voice, electric guitar and reverberation – arranged for the composition of a meditative, weightless piece, free of any frills.
Other artists, musicians and filmmakers from the international scene appear in this sound piece: Robert Smithson, Carson McCullers and others who, in their own way, have inspired their artistic practice.
The book JOURS D’EAU, conceived as a diary, develops this sonic material through photographic landscapes and writings in which the intimate gesture also aims to be artistic reflection.

The ZagZig collection at Dis Voir, edited by Philippe Langlois & Frank Smith, producers of the programme Atelier de création radiophonique on France Culture, follows in the wake of this laboratory of sonic experimentation, which confronts artistic practice in all its forms with radiophonic writing.
The aim of this unprecedented editorial space is, through a movement of translation, to bring works into existence beyond their broadcast on the airwaves, in the form of books/discs conceived with the artists in order to create genuine plastic objects.