Éric La Casa
For more than 20 years, while listening to the environment, Éric La Casa (born 1968, Tours, lives and works in Paris) has been questioning the perception of reality and has expanded the notion of what's musical today. Through his aesthetic of capturing sound, his work fits equally into the fields of sound art and music. As a result of his in situ listening processes, he creates forms (of attention) that creep into the venues, slowly infuse there, and become other possible spaces. In the same way that the letter stimulates a country's reading, the in situ aesthetic object renews our relationship to space and landscape.
2024
Swarming
Two works recorded 14 years apart, registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages.
2024
Kindling
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file.
2023
Swarming
Percussion by Paris-based Japanese improviser Seijiro Murayama and field recordings by sound artist Éric La Casa, "small, simple gestures" on the threshold of the musical, a low-key presence, listening to inhabited spaces.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
The Parc la Villette, Paris, as told by a series of mobile barriers.
2021
Swarming
Two compositions conceived mainly from researches on the inaudible and the unspeakable, as part of a series devoted to the representation of infraliminary sound phenomenons of the reality, of everyday life.
2020
Swarming
Stereophonic versions based on the recordings and
mixes used for the 4 sound installations, made in-situ between 2005 and 2016 (with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Arnau Horta, Seijiro Murayama and Michaële-Andréa Schatt).
2020
Swarming
Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.
2019
Swarming
During Spring 2015, Eamon Sprod (Tarab) and Eric La Casa spent one week to record on waste grounds, at the north east of Paris, and along the canal Ourcq. Spaces which are somehow both inside yet apart from the city; waiting spaces from which to listen to the threshold of the city.
2018
Swarming
Reissue of the CD released on the label Chloë (USA) in 2002, recorded in July 2001 in the Paris metro station, during the last two hours of service. A reference, between site-specific improvisation and sound art.
2018
Swarming
Chantier is a collective project with Pascal Battus on found objects, Bertrand Gauguet on saxophone, and Eric La Casa on microphones. The trio's proposal is to develop a sound practice created on building sites, amongst the machines and the builders. The fourth part of this project was recorded on the building site of the Philharmonie in Paris.
2017
Swarming
12.00 9.00 €
Eric La Casa continues his series dedicated to Paris with the reedition of the classic AIR.ratio, a study of the sounds generated by ventilation systems in various Parisian buildings.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
For two years, Eric La Casa has been recording the urban sonic environment of Paris from the windows of his own apartment. Between a temporary inventory and a musical documentary, Paris Quotidien is the result of this long experiment. Includes a 60-page documentation booklet with photographs.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
20.00 12.00 €
This publication documents the making of a sound mapping project of the city of Melbourne by artists Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa.
