Paléficat is a live soud art performance in immersive sound 8.1.
"Paléficat" tells the story of the imminent disappearance of the last large "natural" parcel of land in the Toulouse conurbation, an area known as Paléficat. This area is now in the middle of a project for a new "High Environmental Quality" district of 6,000 homes. Toulouse City Council has pre-empted most of the land and evicted the last market gardeners in the city.
The piece is in three parts: the pre-project phase, the construction phase and the future phase. The compositions for the before and during parts are based on sound material collected in and around the Paléficat (before and during the start of the works). The after part is based on sound recordings taken in two major new 'High Environmental Quality' districts of Toulouse, where I imagined the sound elements of the landscape of these new districts to be of the same order as the next urban project at Le Paléficat.
This work is part of a wider audiovisual project combining photography and experimental film, commissioned by the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarité Société Territoire UMR CNRS. Paléficat also exists as a concert in 8.1 multiphonic sound.
