Manoir Bruit is the sound creation programme of association Bruit, in collaboration with Haus am Gern and Château de Sibra.
From 16 to 22 October 2025, Biel/Bienne-based sound artist and double bass player Sebastian Rotzler is artist-in-residence at Manoir Bruit in Sibra, France, as the seventh guest of the programme. His project is called Klangheimliche Welt-Geräusch-Tage (Eerie World of Sound Days).
Eerie World Sound Days at Chateau de Sibra
In the romantic park at Manoir Bruit
Turning points in time
Time is interwoven, moments linked and intertwined. Across days and seasons, intersections and nodes form in time. For happy coincidences and entanglements, for turning points and for the continuous strand of time.
Time is permeable in some places and refers to others. This is the case at dawn and at midday. But also at the time when the shadows grow longer and at dusk. Finally, when it has become completely dark.
Weaving sounds into the noises of the daytimes
Every day at these times, I went to Manoir Bruit as a soundweaver that woves its one sounds into the sounds of the world, sqeezes them into the soundorbit, into the creaking and fidgeting, the scratching and croaking.
The weaving into the sounds of the daytimes was in the beginning louder and more distinct, then becoming quieter and quieter, longer and longer, approaching the animal and plant world. The value of the moment on site comes to the fore. In the morning, the owls hooting, at midday the humming, at dusk the birds calling their territory, falling leaves, donkeys braying, always the frogs, sometimes squabbling bisem rats. At night, the silence that demands nothing.
The World Sound Days have become quiet and made way for listening.
The Archive-of-World-Sounds will continue to blend into the ambient noise of the park. This can also be heard at the Locus Sonus livestream, as well as on the webpage here in its fixed form.
