Locustream Promenade — @ Festival MIMI, July 1-14, 2010, Marseille, Iles du Frioul, France — is a sound art installation composed of sonic beams (10 parabolic dishes equipped with sound speakers and small computers). The parabolas are suspended in the public space in such a way that a visitor only hears the sound from the beam when he or she is directly underneath it. Each beam plays a different stream from the Locustream project. The live streamed sounds are soundscapes coming from remote locations through the Internet. The space where the paraboles are hung is virtually connected to geo-distant spaces. By moving from one beam to another the audience walks through audio windows opening out onto a worldwide soundscape. Invited to take part in this experience the listener becomes conscious his or her immediate surroundings in a new way, perception of the local audio environment is modified.

Streams from: Barcelona (Spain), Dakar (Senegal), Boston (US), Ann Arbor (US), Greensboro (US), Amsterdam (Holland), Reykjavik (Iceland), New-York (US), Solleftea (Sueden), Paris (France), Chicago (US), Belfast (Irland), Lagos (Nigeria), Medellin (Colombia), Buga – Valle (Colombia), Quebec (Canada), Montréal (Canada), Mumbai (India), Lijiang (China), Montréal (Canada), Baltimore (US), Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Honk Kong (China), Yokohama (Japan) Marseille (France), Nice (France), Vesinet (France)…

Locus Sonus Lab: Julien Clauss, Alejo Duque, Scott Fitzgerald, Jérôme Joy, Anne Roquigny, Peter Sinclair.

Production team: Etienne Fortin, Stéphane Cousot, Grégoire Louvain, APPLES Marseille, Chabaud et cie.

Partners: Délégation aux Arts Plastiques and Mission Recherche et Technologie from the French Minister of Culture and Communication, CNRS and Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche and in co-production with Transcultures/City Sonics, Mons, Belgium, l’Ecole Supérieure d’art de Aix et Seconde Nature

LOCUS SONUS: http://locusonus.org/
SOUND MAP: http://locusonus.org/soundmap/
FESTIVAL MIMI: http://mimi2010.amicentre.biz/wordpress/