Away from the classic concert form, sub•a•quat•ic is a sound installation proposing a unusual way of experiencing music: the underwater listening. Submerged in water, it’s the entire body which perceives the music, the sound seeming as if coming directly from inside the skull. The aquatic world also perturbs and blurs the music. What the listener perceives becomes a difformed reality which can seem strangely faint and distant, as would do memories.

sub•a•quat•ic is a work on the dichotomy between two spaces, the inner and the outer world. Milliseconde Topographie has conceived two music works to inhabit each world and interact with each other. The subaquatic soundscape is built around slowness and melodies with the sounds of music boxes, toys and old cameras, objects reminiscent of the past and of the intimacy of lullabies. Above the water surface, the external soudscape, with its realistic aesthetic, appears more like the reflection of the concrete world.

The listener-swimmer choses its own journey, hovering at the surface where both spaces merge, or dives in one world to then re-emerge in the other.