Excideuil, France
February 2023
Walking the river.
An audio portrait composed of sound recorded at a series of locations,
further and further downstream.
Stereo digital audio file
Author Archives: Frans van Lent
Journeys
Between Rotterdam and Breda
8 December 2022
The train ran from A to B in sixty minutes.
During that time, I walked from the back to the front of the train.
The train ran from B to A in sixty minutes.
During that time, I walked from the front to the back of the train.
Trains
Between Rotterdam and Venice
October 2022
A compilation of nine audio tracks,
recorded with a contact microphone
in several trains on a trip from Rotterdam to Venice.
Mono digital audio file.
Speed
Between Düsseldorf and Munich
23 October 2022.
In a train,
running at high speed,
I moved as slowly as possible.
Script of a walk (no breaks)
Reversed
Rotterdam-Maastricht-Rotterdam
6 June 2023
During a train journey,
I sat at a window.
I voiced what I saw outside,
and recorded it with a sound recorder.
On the return journey,
I sat in the opposite seat, wearing headphones
and as I looked outside,
I listened to the reversed audio file. Continue reading
Focus
1 May 2023
I was looking at the lens of the camera.
And in doing so,
I was looking at myself,
still hidden in the future.
Original footage recorded in 1998
SD, no sound 9.55 min.
La Têt: Rope
Pendulum
A hydrophone,
on the boundary between air and water,
slightly touching the surface of the stream. Continue reading