Leçon sur le son

The book includes short texts and aphorisms on sound, edited by Alain Géronnez and translated into several languages, as well as montages of images on the same theme. This complex visual and graphic montage work with polyphonic sound is proposed in an interactive form in the CD-Rom, with visual sequences and a selection of texts (in French, German, English, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch and Romanian according to the texts) which can be read on screen and simultaneously read, heard and combined with the visual material. The CD-Rom is designed in an iterative structure with no beginning or end, so that the spectator can view the sequences in any order selected from the title screen. Alain Géronnez, a multimedia visual artist, was born in Brussels in 1951 and first worked jointly in the Groupe 50/04 from 1973 to 1986, then under his own name since 1988. He is a professor of visual techniques at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. He never remains fixed in one particular medium, but combines image and conceptual processes. His art is therefore a meandering, supported by the potential of the places - or the works: he focuses here on sound, noise and music: as a frustrated left-handed person, the works for left-handed and right-handed are equally inaccessible to him, but the computer, which he discovers somewhat ambidextrously, has enabled him to write and forget about his rebellious hand.