Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet (Installation)
he/him + he/him
May 22–June 20 | de Brakke Grond
‘De glace et d'eau’ is an augmented sound fiction tracing the slow disappearance of a glacier through a lifetime of recordings. Blending field recordings, narration, and introspective fragments, the work gathers the mutations, creaks, fractures, and subtle movements of ice, treating a geological body as both archive and witness. Positioned between ethnography, ecopoetry, and speculative memory, the piece reflects on what it means to listen at the edge of loss. The glacier emerges as a shifting entity shaped by both immense power and irreversible vulnerability. Its sounds, which are captured in situ, revisited, and spatialised in a 3D audio environment, invite a form of attentive listening that lingers between wonder and unease, tracing our own fleeting presence within larger planetary transformations.
Development partners: iii Instrument Inventors | Césaré, | Pléiades | FIBER
Scientific partners: IGE Institute of Environmental Geosciences (Grenobles, FR) Applied Psychoacoustics Laboratory (Huddersfield, UK)
Supported by Stimuleringsfonds
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet works across composition, sound art, and radio, developing a practice that moves between field recording, installation, and augmented sound fiction. Drawing on techniques of collage and improvisation, he constructs multi-layered soundscapes shaped by voice, memory, and place. His artistic research focuses on orality and the collection of site-specific sound traces, forming sensitive archives that reflect on ecological transformation and the fragility of lived environments in the Anthropocene.
Robin Koek is a sound artist and designer exploring listening as a relational and more-than-human practice. Working across interactive installations and spatial sound, he creates immersive environments that extend studio-based approaches into collective, public experience. His research spans interspecies communication, aural heritage, and environmental connection, foregrounding sound as a shared resource while opening space for alternative forms of attention, empathy, and acoustic justice.
Robin Koek
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet
