Géographie de bouche

Géographie de bouche — a geography of the mouth — is a six-minute audiovisual piece from 2026 in which the inside of the mouth is treated as a landscape to be mapped. The sound is made entirely from close recordings of my own mouth without the vocal cords: clicks, the tongue against teeth and palate, breath across the lips, saliva, the small percussion of speech with the speech taken out — sorted, pitched and layered into a terrain of ridges, plains and cavities.

The image is a slow traversal of that terrain: macro footage of lips, teeth and tongue, processed until it reads as aerial photography — coastlines, dunes, a river delta that is a crease in the skin. Now and then a sung tone surfaces, a single landmark in the map, and is covered again.

It is the most intimate piece I have made and one of the least personal: a map of the instrument rather than a portrait of the player.