Mini Album | From one (sONic) world to another – Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) | Transonic Label (Be)

This mini nomadic audio album is the selective phonographic transposition of the geolocalized sound journey “From one (sONic) world to another / D’un monde (sONore) à l’autre” presented, following a Transcultures/Pépinières européennes de Création  in La Louvière (Belgium), in June 2023 in as part of the ARTour Biennial of Contemporary Art and Heritage.

The sound artist and sound designer, Tommy Lawson (Fr) offers a rereading in a few tracks of these concrete or imaginary territories, of intermediate spaces, of elusive borders, of singular dimensions into which we plunge like an invisible witness in the middle of the action. This soundtrack, like a cinema for the ears, unfolds through atmospheres, clues, characterized spaces which connect us to a distant, fictional elsewhere. A summary of the experience initially conceived as a sonic wandering under headphones and which can now also be listened to, in digital album format.

“From one (sONic) world to another” is a dive between the different shots, different scenes to feel on the spot, at the center of the sonic action under construction and in permanent evolution.

From fragments and soundscapes, sounds and voices reach us and invite us to be close to our inner territories, beyond the sound traces that become embedded in the epidermis. The music, like a continuum, punctuates the action in different recomposed spaces, then it also becomes a character, in movement, to tell its own story.

Most of the sounds were recorded during strolls in La Louvière, from Place Mansart via the Passage de l’Éléphant Blanc and other nooks and crannies and up to Gilson Park to experience, like an initiatory journey, following in the footsteps of the multidisciplinary artist Pol Bury and his poet friend Achille Chavée in the unusual passages and alleys of this Walloon city, born in the second half of the 19th century following the industrial revolution.