Throughout the month of April, we invited artists from Berlin and from the German and French speaking Switzerland to feature an audio piece as part of the Sound Series, initiated in 2023 by Display. It took place in the framework of Emilie Ding and Alizée Lenox’s multi-channel sound installation, Move Along Before the Sun Rises, at Neun Kelche. The Sound Series enabled both to extend the field of research and explore the diversity of sound works. The Individual proposals took the form of readings, soundtracks and other kind of sound pieces. They are broadcast on the platform www.display-berlin.com. To close this chapter of the ongoing Sound Series, we are today listening to Emilie Ding & Alizée Lenox sound piece Move Along Before the Sun Rises. This release for Display Sound #8 is an adapted stereo version of the seven speakers multi-channel installation and the listening session presented on the 5th of April at Neun Kelche. 

MOVE ALONG BEFORE THE SUN RISES
Emilie Ding & Alizée Lenox, Move Along Before the Sun Rises, 2025,  38 min 8 sec

Through a sensitive approach to the site and extended field recordings, Emilie Ding and Alizée Lenox write their piece with the reverberations of walls; they sense the large glass windows, the corridors and the electrical appliances. White noise, drones, vibrations and frequencies are amplified from Neun Kelche’s premises. The acousmatic sounds, assembled into a composition where the interplay of sources—chosen for their vibratory quality and timbre—combined with a multi-diffusion system, draw us into a somatic experience, whilst opening up new fields of mental and sensorial projections.

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Emilie Ding & Alizée Lenox work with sound and its materiality to sculpt and arrange elements of field recordings, instruments, and samples into multichannel compositions. Often site-specific, these installations explore the acoustics found within the architectural body of a space to create complex and intricate acousmatic compositions of large amplitude and sensitivity.The resulting experience leads to strong visual evocations that extend beyond the source of the sound, embodying resonance and vibratory qualities.