[Childhood #5] brings together inside your headphones during 20 minutes :
– the Illuminations poem through which Rimbaud prays that a tomb should be rented to him
– the recording «as if you were there» of the vault’s atmosphere (twenty-six years after it was discovered)
– an audio description of the tour by a regular visitor.
– a big guy wearing boots
I started keeping company with Rimbaud in Besançon, around 1986. I bought the paperback I’m still carrying about from a second bookseller of the Battant district.
I remember hanging a good deal with him at the time. Without talking much in fact, as I remember that mostly, I didn’t know what to tell him.
It was unpleasant. Nevertheless, all these hours spent on the island of the Republic bridge must have left a potential weird place. As years went by, besides Rimbaud’s maimed figure, there I stored a Limousin clock, a small tin box more or less capable of opening doors, a helpless soviet underground unable to resurface and apparently doomed to wander below the city.
2012, 21’00
[Enfance #5]
En écoute du 6 septembre au 6 octobre 2012 durant le festival Bien Urbain, Besançon.
Avec les voix de Morgan Touzé (la passante), Patrick Lizana (le grand type), Pascal Rueff (l’audiodescripteur).
Violon alto, Vladimir Kunista.
Production L’Agence du Verbe / Diffusion Elektrophonie & Juste Ici