Justine Charland et Nicolas Bourgeois + Antonin Gougeon-Moisan | Sound window
Over the past few years, Sporobole has proudly partnered with the Université de Montréal to offer a two-week sound creation residency to members of the Faculty of Music’s student community who stand out in their careers.
In 2023 and 2024, Justine Charland, Nicolas Bourgeois and Antonin Gougeon-Moisan were offered creative residencies in our sound studio. The results of these residencies will be broadcast in our Sound window as part of Mois pédagogique 2025 from May 1 to 31 inclusive, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Justine Charland & Nicolas Bourgeois
📷 Arno Landry
Mur Murs
The installation Mur Murs reveals the secrets of woman-identifying individuals around Sherbrooke. Named after the 1981 documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Agnès Varda, the work seeks to open a dialogue between girls and women who don’t know each other, in an anonymous way. They are subject to the weight of expectations: what they must be, what their bodies must wear, what they must say, sometimes, and keep quiet, other times. Are women free to be what they want, or free to be what they can within a certain framework? Mur Murs aims to break down this social construct: go ahead, ladies, say what you want! Girls, teenagers, young mothers, single women, trans women, elderly women, grandmothers, all are invited to speak out. How do you like the flowers in spring? Why did you choose to be a mother? If all careers had been open to you at the time, what would you have liked to be? What’s your favorite street in Sherbrooke? What’s your favorite cheese? Topics can range from the profound to the everyday: all they have to do is float their thoughts and tell their stories.Mur Murs is a collection of demographically varied testimonials, subsequently synthesized into snippets of experiences of the city. These anecdotes, projected on both sides, give the effect of a real improvised exchange, like an exquisite corpse wallpapered on a background of soaring ambiences. In Mur Murs, the emphasis is on creating a safe space where opinions can be expressed in a place where the voice is magnified.
Antonin Gougeon-Moisan
📷 Nina Gibelin Souchon
Collages éteints
Collages éteints is an electroacoustic composition created for Sporobole’s sound showcase. Making use of the linearity of the installation, the piece spatializes sonic landscapes patched together from various field recordings captured in the Sherbrooke region in June and July 2024. Among these fragmented soundscapes, bits of words emerge, whispering a delicate poetry in passing.