Meryll Hardt

P004 → Eau de source.

Past shows :

Corps perdus 13' - stereo (2024)

Through the process of voice recording and editing, the human shape can expand, mutate, seemingly without end. Breathing remains, as the trace of our finitude. It becomes a means of expression in the composition of music, as well as a precious and significant trace of animality.

In Corps perdus, the pre-verbal voice oscillates between identifiable presence and electronic wave, materialisation and dematerialisation of the human figure.
The piece is articulated in four movements, without transitions, which represent the post-human becoming of a voice.

Duplicated, stretched to overcome its living-breathing state to approach the continuum of a pure electronic wave, the voice become a choir, then an instrumental ensemble turning into a spectral pool. A movement emerges from noise, electromagnetic interference, to the embodied voice, which becomes a sound object. A post-human voice, split, transposed outside the human spectrum, and having joined the electronic flow.

Corps perdu première on INA GRM Acousmonium, april the 12th 2024, Univ. Gustave Eiffel (Champ-sur-Marne)

Drom vāta śunel ćirla 9’ (2023)

A bestiary of cats, dogs, elephants and reptiles meets a prepared piano and whispering voices that turn into tornadoes: the title mixes two languages, Romany and Sanskrit. Between a dormant circus and the gods of ancient India, the ghosts of a little-known journey are exhumed with great perseverance in the now immobile caravan. A shape-shifter, beyond gender, animal, human, even meteorological, rises with a voice that gradually gives way to the pure energy of the synthesizer.

Short edit :

Emerging from a light rain, a woman's breath mingles with the bestiary of a humid ecosystem, an undergrowth where creatures are barely distinguishable: wolves, insects, small sounds amplified, large sounds muted. Sounds that twist and turn on the ground and in the air awaken intertwined mutant energies that are carried away in a tornado between sound and noise in a flock of seagulls.

https://eaudesource.bandcamp.com/track/drom-v-ta-unel-irla

Video editing with a footage extract from Star Trek the motion picture (1979), by Robert Wise, prod : Gene Rodenberry. (2021)
Music : original, by Eau de source / MH (c).

Video editing with Prelinger and Pathé archives (2020).
Music : original, by Eau de source / MH (c).

Maybe someday, cover for an absent LP (2021).

Lexidisc party, at Ateliers Claus, december 2012.

I can die happy / Lichtspiel 7ich, Apolkalypso, Gagarin records, 2012.