Statement
Boris Allenou, sound art.
I am a sound artist exploring how deep listening and sonic ecology can shift perception, how exploring and connecting with our surrounding soundscapes can reshape our awareness of place, community, and the environments we
share. My practice is grounded in the idea that sound is not only a medium, but an ecosystem: dynamic,relational, connecting people to each other and to the world they stand within.
Across installations, compositions and participatory workshops, I work with captured and composed sonic elements to create spaces for contemplation. I am drawn to overlooked objects, techniques, situations and fragile frequencies, using them to invite audiences into a slower, more attentive way of experiencing. In a world of constant signal and surveillance, such listening becomes a discreet act of resistance, small,
attentive, uncontainable.
Increasingly, my work extends through collaborative learning spaces. Workshops, classes and shared experimentations are integral to my practice, allowing sound to grow collectively. These encounters cultivate curiosity and agency, turning listening into a form of connection, reflection, and quiet
transformation.
At the heart of my approach is the belief that sound creation and sound exploration and listening itself can be active, political, and gentle. Can be a refusal to rush. A refusal to consume. A refusal to be reduced to signal. My creations gestures toward a subtle, quiet form of resistance: attention as defiance, listening as autonomy, presence as freedom.
Bio
Originally from Paris France, I am an independent sound artist based in the U.K.
During ten years, as an electronic musician, I collaborated, improvised, composed, built and performed with a wide range of musicians, filmmakers and artists from different background in South Korea, Europe, North America and the United Kingdom.
Now, I consider myself a musician and creative technologist and I mainly explore the limitless forms of Sound Art and Sound Ecology by investigating the social role of sonic Eco-systems surrounding us.
My research uses interactive sound installations, talks, workshops, music, radio creations and sound exploration events as mediums to reflect on, propose and conceptualize possible roles, places, meanings, interactions and aesthetics of sounds in our societies.
Originaire de Paris, en France, je suis un artiste sonore indépendant basé au Royaume-Uni.
Pendant dix ans, en tant que musicien électronique, j’ai collaboré, improvisé, composé, construit et joué avec un large éventail de musiciens, cinéastes et artistes issus de différents milieux en Corée du Sud, en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et au Royaume-Uni.
Aujourd’hui, je me considère comme un musicien et artiste et j’explore principalement les formes illimitées de l’art sonore et de l’écologie sonore en examinant le rôle social des écosystèmes sonores qui nous entourent.
Mes recherches utilisent des installations sonores interactives, des conférences, des ateliers, de la musique, des créations radiophoniques et des événements d’exploration sonore comme moyens de réfléchir, de proposer et de conceptualiser les rôles, les places, les significations, les interactions et l’esthétique possibles des sons dans nos sociétés.
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