Synopsis
Where the Rivers Meet takes its source in Montbéliard – a city in which many rivers have been diverted, buried, channeled – and attempts to reveal the invisible links between the inhabitants of a city undergoing profound change, where it seems to be becoming more and more complicated to communicate. Through the metaphor of an incredible and unexplained rise of the rivers, this audio creation summons a landscape of inhabitants’ voices, whose stories and intimate histories seem to resurface as the city disappears under the water.
A word from Tënk
A radio essay halfway between documentary and fiction, a poetic and spellbinding basin, Where the Rivers Meet imagines a French town (Montbéliard) engulfed by a mysterious rise in the waters of the multiple rivers that meander through it. As the town disappears, a constellation of objects rises to the surface. From the hilltops bordering the great lake, quiet, melancholy voices - the inhabitants - also float through the air, recounting intimate tales of the objects that shaped their daily lives and now float indolently on the water's surface.
Through this fascinating rising water, a metaphor for a city undergoing profound change, what connects the inhabitants? This is the question that this magnificent, dense, and harmonious sound piece seeks to answer.
Daniel Capeille
Sound recordist, sound designer and sound editor
