re_COMPOSED re_ALITY offers a group of walking listeners to explore a synthesis between a ‘pure’ form of listening to the environment (with no headphones) and a heightened listening experience (using open headphones). At the frontier of field-recording, electro-acoustic music, and soundwalk, this live experience re-composes the sonic landscape. During this walk, a field re_cordist, a Soundscape re_composer, and a Listening Guide will accompany the listeners, subtly suggesting through their performances ways and directions of listening. They bring us into more direct and more intimate contact with sound-filled objects, and, step by step, they evolve a sound-scape from sonic patterns to be shared with the listeners. From this communal experience a sonic landscape takes form, where previously we heard only noise…

The spectacular real-time sound-gathering is carried out by a “sound recordist” (aka the “Sounds Giver”). This second artist, “armed” with a number of microphones, as well as non-conventional microphones (hydrophones, contact mikes, magnetic-field mikes, parabolic...) takes us into the sound-heart of matter, picking up resonances buried within diverse objects, or sounds inaudible to our naked ears.

The sounds are transmitted instantaneously by HF links to the re_COMPOSER who re_composes in real time a sonic landscape using different audio streams. He is also equipped with binaural microphones meaning he can enable his listeners to share his point of hear !