Philippe Battikha
Montreal based artist, musician, composer, and community organizer.
At the heart of my practice lies an obsession with sound. Following in a tradition of sound-artists and composers such as Max Neuhaus and R. Murray Schafer, my work focuses on the belief that in today’s visually driven society we must pay closer attention to the impact and importance aural environments play in our lives.
By recontextualizing habitual sounds and exposing specific aural properties in sound installations, sculptures, and controlled sound environments, I explore the relationships we have to the sounds that surround us, and their affect on our experiences.
Using sound as a medium is also a way of raising the alarm on a growing cultural disregard for material waste inherent in consumer capitalism.