ecnamoR delliflufnU by Charles Wesley

ecnamoR delliflufnU (Extended Version)

is a sound romance

digital scratches, awaking metallic songs

a loving practice of the electronic media

voices, close and far
further into a dawn

splashes, titillating highs


ecnamoR delliflufnU (Extended version) is a sound installation playing an electroacoustic piece composed for the Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, on the occasion of « Le début de la fin » (2021) an exhibition of 2020 ENSBA's (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Lyon) graduates during the Covid social restrictions period.

Divided into two tracks, one track plays from the sound shower, and the other one from the speakers placed on the floor. Ambiance, noises, spoken passages are emitted between the two sources which are creating interferences and/or empty spaces. The shower provides a more directional, intimate listening while the stereo on the ground a more diffuse, environmental one. 

ecnamoR delliflufnU, the 2:30 version, is a result of a more condensed, direct musical - and confrontational - approach. It is independent from the context of the installation.


picture by Thomas Lannes

Charles Wesley’s a recorder, composer, poet, and photographer.

Influenced by pop and industrial music, he carves his own sonics to pull the strings of his queer identity in an age of global exhaustion. Spoken words and chants resonate in environments to celebrate love in growing beyond the status quo.

There’s desolation clanging to his sound, still it cries out clear and euphoric.