Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies

#3 Ventilator - Resistor - Bipolar switch

Sound performance / 2025

This performance is part of a broader body of research based on a text by Marcel Duchamp, “Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies,” in which the recycling of bodily excess into sonic energy is explored. Through unlikely body–machine assemblages, the work seeks to present a gallery of living and loudspeaking ready-mades operating with a low energy efficiency.

40mn
Conception, staging, sound composition and devices : Camille Lacroix
With Marie Bénédicte Cazeneuve, Camille Lacroix and Sig Valax

Production : SILEX
Coproduction : La Muse en Circuit - CNCM, Ici l'Onde - CNCM
Residencies : La Muse en Circuit - CNCM, le 104, Ici l'Onde - CNCM, GMEM - CNCM, la Ménagerie de Verre, Scène de Recherche - ENS Paris Saclay.
Supports : Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, Association Beaumarchais-SACD, DRAC Ile-de-France.

Shows :
February 7, 2026 - Festival Souffle, Ici l'Onde CNCM, Dijon
October 25, 2025 - Biennale Son, Sion (Suisse)
October 10, 2025 - Festival Frasq, Le Générateur, Gentilly
October 5, 2025 - Festival Pour les Oiseaux, au Muma, Le Havre

Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies

#2 Ventilator

Sound performance / 2024

Ventilator: A device driven by a swirling, obsessive energy, designed to release and disperse into the surrounding atmosphere flows of excess particles within the body of the apparatus. In a closed environment, the outgoing air masses are cyclically re-injected into the ventilation intake before being expelled again. The concentration of energetic particles suspended in the air thus gradually increases. When the saturation threshold is reached, a phenomenon of hyperventilation generates zones of atmospheric pressure and low pressure, whose random movements locally lead to the emergence of microclimates.

This performance is part of a broader body of research based on a text by Marcel Duchamp, “Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies,” in which the recycling of bodily excess into sonic energy is explored. Through unlikely body–machine assemblages, the work seeks to present a gallery of living and loudspeaking ready-mades operating with a low energy efficiency.

15mn
By and with Camille Lacroix
Residencies : La Muse en Circuit, Arthouse Jersey

Shows :
May 9, 2025 - Plateforme, festival Résurgences, Paris
May 3, 2025 - Topographie de l'Art, Paris
July 18, 2024 - ArtHouse Jersey (UK)
March 7, 2024 - Galerie Michel Journiac

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Bouche de ventilation (Ventilation intake)

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2024

Ventilation Intake: A device for extracting and filtering vocal and pneumatic emissions, designed to purify the indoor environment.

Stereo, 13mn30
Commissioned by Motus - compagnie musicale
Premiered at festival Futura 2024.

Broadcastings :
September 7, 2025 : Festival Supersonique, Marseille
August 24, 2024 : Festival Futura, Crest
October 11, 2024 : Festival FF.XP, La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville

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Concrétions

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2024

“Concretions” is the third movement of the electroacoustic piece “Les eaux s'accordent”, a five-movement symphony composed by five composers: Sarah Clénet, Christine Groult, Camille Lacroix, Aude Rabillon, and Anne-Laure Lejosne.

This work was commissioned by CNCM Athénor for the Festival de l’Eau, held in Saint-Nazaire in May 2024.
This group of composers was invited to explore the waters of the Saint-Nazaire region, from the marshlands of Brière to the coastline, via the Loire estuary.

“Concretions,” a movement composed from sounds recorded along the Atlantic coast, presents a soundscape eroded by gusts and surges of white noise. It evokes passages, tidal flows and ebbing currents that slowly and continuously reshape this shifting edge of the coastline, threatened with dissolution.

Stereo piece, 10 minutes
Commissioned by Athénor – CNCM
Premiere at the Festival de l’Eau 2024
This work was supported by a grant for the creation of an original musical work from the French Ministry of Culture – Prefect of the Pays de la Loire Region.

Broadcastings :
14 septembre 2025 : Paysages Composés, Grenoble
18 mai 2024 : Festival de l'Eau, St Nazaire
24 août 2024 : Festival Futura, Crest
16 novembre 2024 : Les Instants Fertiles, St Nazaire

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Quatre hymnes mous
(Four flabby hymns)

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2023

Quatre hymnes mous ("Four flabby hymns") is a celebration without momentum in four distended movements.

Stereo piece, 9’45
Commissioned by Ici l’Onde
Premiere at the Ekhoes Festival, 2023
Finalist for the Russolo Prize 2024

November 23, 2024 — Nova Alternativa, Prague (CZ)
November 9, 2024 — Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (IT)
October 12, 2024 — L’Acousmonef, La Monnerie-le-Montel (FR)
September 28, 2024 — St Andrew’s Church, Leicester (UK)
August 24, 2024 — Analix Gallery, Geneva (CH)
August 30, 2024 — Festival des Cabanes, Faverges (FR)
January 13, 2024 — Petit Palais, Paris (FR)
December 1, 2023 — Ekhoes Festival, Chalon-sur-Saône (FR)

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Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies

#1 Voltage Generator

Sound performance / 2023

Voltage Generator: A dipole capable of imposing tensions, through plantar stimulation, across the terminals of a bipod. The massive influx of negative charges through reflex zones inhibits energetic circulation by saturating the meridians, resulting in a lasting disruption of homeostatic mechanisms. The generated tensions are reinterpreted as liminal, quasi-subliminal yet persistent sound forms. The listener’s psychic resistance is thus put to the test through a subtly abusive form of acoustic pressure.

This performance is part of a broader body of research based on a text by Marcel Duchamp, “Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies,” in which the recycling of bodily excess into sonic energy is explored. Through unlikely body–machine assemblages, the work seeks to present a gallery of living and loudspeaking ready-mades operating with a low energy efficiency.

25 minutes
Created and performed by Camille Lacroix

Co-produced by Château Éphémère and Biennale Mars à l’Ouest
Residencies: Château Éphémère, Point Éphémère, GMEM

Shows :
July 18, 2024 - Jersey ArtHouse (UK)
May 4, 2024 - INACT festival, Strasbourg
February 22, 2024 - La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville
December 8, 2023 - Café de Paris, Paris
September 16, 2023 - ICE festival, Plougasnou
May 11, 2023 - Le Générateur, Gentilly
October 21, 2022 - Château Ephémère, Carrière-sous-Poissy

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Transformer designed to utilize small wasted energies

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2022

A collection of sound miniatures corresponding to the energies listed in Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous text.

Stereo piece, 20’30
Released on the Tsuku Boshi label.
Presented at: Futura Festival 2023, Supersonique Festival 2022, Musique à Réactions Festival 2022 (carte blanche by Motus)

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DUST (d'autres unités sémiotiques temporelles)

Booklet / 2022

A booklet accompanying the electroacoustic piece “Transformer designed to Utilize Small Wasted Energies.” It constitutes an improbable addendum to the research conducted by the MIM in Marseille on “temporal semiotic units” (UST).

The booklet, entitled DUST (d’autres unités sémiotiques temporelles / “other temporal semiotic units”), offers a morphological and semantic analysis, along with a graphic representation of each of the “wasted energies” described in Duchamp’s text. The publication is accompanied by a disc gathering the 19 corresponding sound miniatures.

40 pages, text and drawings, CD
Edition of 50 copies.

Symphonie malléable
("Malleable Symphony")

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2022

Stretchable pieces for influenceable ensembles.

Octophonic piece, 11'
Composed and premiered at the CRD of Pantin in June 2022

ZEM

Sound performance / 2021

Electromagnetic zone / Pseudo-zen garden

Performance, 15'
Composed and premiered at the CRD of Pantin in May 2021

Gyrolalies

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2021

Pieces for singers with rotating heads

Stereo piece, 13'
Composed and premiered at the CRD of Pantin in June 2021

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Brumes brames bois abois

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2020

A piece composed from sounds of Erik Nussbicker’s instrumentarium, made from the bones of a deer.

Stereo piece, 8’30
Composed and premiered at the CRD of Pantin in June 2020
Radio broadcasts: Phaune Radio, Radio Nunc, Pi-node, …

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Pepibus conciliabus

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2019

Cackling, croaking, hooting bestiary.

Stereo piece, 5’30
Composed and premiered at the CRD of Pantin in June 2019

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Grabüg-eûment

Electroacoustic soundwork / 2019

“Grabüg-eûment is something between a grunt and a whistle, with a kind of sneeze in the middle. It is the sound of lost pigs.”

Stereo and octophonic versions, 3'
Composed at the CRD of Pantin in February 2019
Presented at: Futura Festival, Supersonique Festival, Exhibitronic Festival, C-LAB (Taipei), NEMC 2023 (Nagoya)
Winner of the Petites Formes Prize (TPMC), 2022

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