For the Tram des Nations artist residency, Nadine Schütz designed a unique mobile sound recording and broadcasting device to reveal and activate human, sensory landscapes through an experimental process of sharing and interaction. Via microphones that allow the recording of sounds that had never been heard before (textures of thresholds, the inner life of the waters that cross the city, magnetic fields of the infrastructures of urban mobility), and via a mobile loudspeaker worn on the back allowing passers-by to hear these mysterious sounds in real time, the work engages in conversations with the users and inhabitants of the territory who testify to the plurality of the landscape and the people who live there.
At once process, instrument, and artistic performance, Human Recorder explores the performative potential of field recording. It is an activation of the human, sensorial landscape through sound, resulting from an innovative combination of digital techniques, repurposing, street art, and the physical presence characterising live performance. It is also a work of inventory, ready to be integrated into other creations and collaborations, in particular the Points de Départ project, two works produced in collaboration with Alex Hanimann during the residency.
