Spirales

At the beginning of Behind the wheel (Depeche Mode), you hear a metal object spinning around and then falling back down. As a teenager, I was fascinated by this ‘spiral of sound’... For this piece, I wanted to explore the idea of a spiral. So I started by recording a coin, a jam jar, metal lids of all sizes and a car wheel. I varied the supports: wooden table, tiled floor, painted concrete floor (which makes tyres squeal).
The piece begins by listening to a few spirals, not overly processed, which are then crushed in a very digital distortion. I then work on this spiral motif with a synthesiser. Finally, we come back to my lids and the car wheel, which are transformed into granular and/or stretched effects.
The video takes up this idea of spirals: the spectrogram passes through a moving spherical projection which itself reacts to the amplitude of the sound, and is then joined by two parallel lines (which are no longer parallel at all in this environment...).