For several years, the sponsorship department of the Caisse Des Dépôts has been helping contemporary creation in different forms: production aid and acquisition of artworks deposited in public collections, constitution of a photography collection, exhibition program in its parisian space 13 Quai Voltaire then at the Palais De Tokyo, interventions in urban space, actions in favour of contemporary dance... In the context of its "producion aid" program, the Caisse Des Dépôts has commissioned musical and sound works from visual artists as well as from electronic musicians, on the idea of sound environment.
Audiolab is in this way made up of a series of different sound pieces, specifically produced to be diffused inside an architectural module, created by young french designers. This space or listening chamber has been made to receive the visitor and allow for the optimal and environmental diffusion of sound. Patrick Jouin, Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, as well as Laurent Massaloux have in this way each created a listening and sound immersion module, in which the sound works are diffused and made spacial. This compilation brings together the works produced by Audiolab 1 and 2, respectively conceived by Patrick Jouin and the Bouroullec brothers.