Elena Truuts and Martin Kikas collaborate on a sound poetry project called French Theory, which aims to create experimental "sound snippets" where the sound environment contributes to the work of the poem being voiced.
Je suis le fleuve
Most of the poems on the album Et tu sais were written in 2022 and recorded in 2023. While the theme of travel is a common thread throughout the album, it is certainly not about leisurely journeys. Writing has never been a "tourist" endeavor for poets. It could also involve literary translingualism, a form of identity displacement in itself when one is exploring another language through poetry and creation.
On continue
In Et tu sais, as well as in other Elena’s sound poems, several themes arise: the desolation related to the collective traumas of wars of which History has made us witnesses, departure towards "un ailleurs", another place, and the condition of being between two places which is known by all types of travelers: from lovers seeking reunion to those who left their homes and are searching for security in another place. In French, there is a word "periple ", which means "journey", and this journey is something that links a subjective narrative to a History with a capital H.
Find more of their work on the links below:
https://frenchtheory.bandcamp.com
The project is part of the subtheme Poetry and the Digital Commons - New platforms, new audiences.
Author
Elena Truuts
Elena Truuts is a poet from Estonia writing in French who lives and works in Tallinn. She completed a thesis on the radio theater of Nathalie Sarraute ("Nathalie Sarraute, Theater: Action, Interaction, Intersubjectivity") at the University of Paris 8, where she also taught French literature. She currently teaches French at the European School of Tallinn.
Author
Martin Kikas
Martin Kikas is an Estonian sound artist and music producer. He is also one of the co-founders of Ö Stuudio, a creative cluster in Tartu, where many artists from the Estonian avant-garde and independent scene come to record their albums.
