Festival Archipel 2019, Genève - biographie de Julie Semoroz

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Julie Semoroz, born in 1984, lives and works in Geneva. Singer, sound artist and head of artistic projects, Semoroz addresses transformation, metaphysical poetry and the invisible through her productions, and explores ethereal and intimate worlds that are on the brink of falling apart. She operates through repetition and exhaustion of sound matter, working on improvisation. She evades categorisation, hopping from pop to experimental music, audio performance to live concert. Semoroz shapes sound using several sources such as field recordings, live microphones and her own voice with software and hardware. She offers sound pieces like inner journeys

into the subconscious that penetrate into the darkness. In 2018-2020 her work focuses on people's individual relationship with mechanical and organic time. Her creations address new technologies and our post-industrial consumerist society. Cultural and technical innovation follows directions according to the various social and political forces that determine its use. The aim is also to explore the concept of social acceleration in its various dimensions. In her ecology-based research, in the sense of «habitat», Julie Semoroz raises the question of how to experience our bodies and lives in a society dominated by «post-historic man*».