Yannick Guédon

French composer Yannick Guédon was invited to take part in Playing the Rural Landscape, a series of artist residencies around the theme of visceral/tactile sonic connections with rural landscape, one of which took place in April 2015 in the tiny village of Açores (municipality of São Pedro do Sul, Portugal), on the foot of the mystical mount São Macário. Guédon interpreted some of his compositions during the residency, inviting local inhabitants to specificspots in the landscape for individual listening, and created a sound piece for the final event.

Yannick Guédon is a French born composer, singer and performance artist, currently living in Brussels. His work focuses on tiny variations of timbres, the inner pulsation sensations and subjective notions of time, silence and error. He pays particular attention to the place and context in which each musical situation is displayed. In 2011 he initiated the cycle of situations “a _ t e m p _ s“, which generated five compositions between 2011 and 2014 using a variety of instruments and devices (viola da gamba, electroacoustic settings, sound research on the artist’s absence, birthday candles, etc.). He has recently collaborated with composers/musicians such as Radu Malfatti, Deborah Walker, Eliane Radigue and Mattieu Delaunay.