Lauren Tortil, For a Helter Skelter Rain, 2023. Environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin as part of the exhibition ‘Un-Tuning Together. Practising listening with Pauline Oliveros’ at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research. Co-produced by Bétonsalon and *Duuu Radio © ADAGP, Paris, 2023 / Lauren Tortil. Photo: Rosa Mota Robles.
Lauren Tortil, For a Helter Skelter Rain, 2023. Environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin as part of the exhibition ‘Un-Tuning Together. Practising listening with Pauline Oliveros’ at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research. Co-produced by Bétonsalon and *Duuu Radio © ADAGP, Paris, 2023 / Lauren Tortil. Photo: Rosa Mota Robles.
Lauren Tortil, For a Helter Skelter Rain, 2023. Environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin as part of the exhibition ‘Un-Tuning Together. Practising listening with Pauline Oliveros’ at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research. Co-produced by Bétonsalon and *Duuu Radio © ADAGP, Paris, 2023 / Lauren Tortil. Photo: Rosa Mota Robles.
Lauren Tortil, For a Helter Skelter Rain, 2023. Environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin as part of the exhibition ‘Un-Tuning Together. Practising listening with Pauline Oliveros’ at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research. Co-produced by Bétonsalon and *Duuu Radio © ADAGP, Paris, 2023 / Lauren Tortil. Photo: Rosa Mota Robles.
Lauren Tortil, For a Helter Skelter Rain, 2023. Environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin as part of the exhibition ‘Un-Tuning Together. Practising listening with Pauline Oliveros’ at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research. Co-produced by Bétonsalon and *Duuu Radio © ADAGP, Paris, 2023 / Lauren Tortil. Photo: Rosa Mota Robles.
Lauren Tortil, For a Helter Skelter Rain, 2023. Environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin as part of the exhibition ‘Un-Tuning Together. Practising listening with Pauline Oliveros’ at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research. Co-produced by Bétonsalon and *Duuu Radio © ADAGP, Paris, 2023 / Lauren Tortil. Photo: Rosa Mota Robles.
Opening performance of the exhibition, an environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin
Event curator: Elena Lespes Muñoz
For a helter skelter rain is an environmental concert by Lauren Tortil that takes place along the Canal Saint-Martin, blending in with the polyphony of the city. Through a succession of scattered sound apparitions – ship horns, saxophone, voices… – performed from the docks by accomplices and composed to echo the canal’s soundscape, this performance is an invitation to thwart our perceptions and decentre our senses. Aboard the Arletty or from the docks, listen carefully and let yourself be surprised by everything that happens beneath the surface of the audible. Along the water, over the course of an afternoon, the experience un-folds in a singular listening context to collectively exercise our attention to the urban environment. The score for this concert is inspired by an extract from Virginia Woolf’s Diary, in which she describes the impact of rain on a pond. Like an initiation rite, this composition sounds like a call for rain.
With the complicity of the resident sailors of the Port de l’Arsenal and the Halte de la Villette, Pierre Thévenin (saxophonist), Claire Serres with the Sirène Song choir, Aymeric de Tapol (composer), Jérémy Barrault (graphic designer) and Simon Ripoll-Hurier (video recording).
Boarding: 2pm, Port de l’Arsenal, Paris 12th arrondissement
Arrival: 5pm, Parc de la Villette, Paris 19th arrondissement
This performance is part of the Bétonsalon “Sunbathed ears” programme, supported by the Drac Île-de-France, on the occasion of the Odyssée with Petit Bain and the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2023. It is co-produced with *Duuu radio as part of the Artistes et Sportifs Associés de la Ville de Paris 2023 program, and in collaboration with Canauxrama. Lauren Tortil received support from ADAGP for the recording.
