Glass melting furnace. © Jean-Philippe Renoult
At Arts Codés, Jean-Philippe Renoult plays with “the egg”, the glass melting furnace of this Parisian cooperative workspace. For the 2nd season of his binaural column, the artist adds his patterns to the sound of the machine. Headphones highly recommended!
At the center of the cooperative workspace, a Danish built glass melting furnace in the shape of an egg. At Arts Codés, we simply call it “the egg”. The Gamil workshop makes specific artistic orders there, for the plastic artists Jean-Marie Appriou or Marguerite Furlong. Impossible for the sound artist that I am not to hear the ambient drone it makes day and night. “This is what gives its soul to Arts Codés,” says Vincent Guimas, in charge of this design cooperative workspace in Pantin, near Paris…
The egg never stops functioning because it has to stay at at constant temperature of 1160°. It is recorded here from a good distance in the quiet of the early morning. Life surrounding it arises little by little. I am displaying in this realization short sound patterns that I am proposing to develop in the episodes to come of this second season of Makesound.
A big thank you to Arts Codés, and especially to Stéphane Pelletier, glass-maker, and Vincent Guimas, in charge of the place