“Éolienne PH” (also known as “Be the Wind”) is a piece created for the 2022 Meta-Xenakis celebration, utilizing audience smartphones for its performance. It was inspired by Iannis Xenakis’ “Concret PH” (see further below). This recording was captured at International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2022) in Barcelona, in June 2022.

The piece uses recordings of sounds found in Nature, including that of flowing water and bird song – to create a restorative, meditative experience. Similarly to its counterpart, sounds are partitioned into small fragments, and then pitch-shifted and overlaid, to create a granular, ever-unfolding sound texture.

Éolienne PH utilizes audience smartphones to deliver its sounds. Participants are asked to move freely around, thus generating independent, aleatoric trajectories for sounds. This creates infinite possibilities for sound texture and placement. Participants may also produce high-quality, binaural wind-chime sounds, by tapping on their smartphone screens. This makes them active contributors to the unfolding soundscape, and invites (but does not require) deep listening, and possibly collaboration.