minard, a brief story of slowness
short-documentary
A poetic documentary accompanies this release, titled « Minard – a brief story of slowness », created in collaboration with photographer Joséphine Leroux. This film captures a creative residency where time slows down. Surrounded by sea, garden, and silence, the musician embraces improvisation, guided by the fragile details of nature. With no goal but to feel, to listen, and to create differently, the film documents this intimate and contemplative artistic process.
It is an immersive dive into a creative process stripped of all commercial pressure, where nature becomes a collaborator and direct source of inspiration. The project questions our relationship with time, creation, and the environment in an era where slowing down becomes a poetic and political act.
synésthésie
musical piece for restaurant
This experience was created for Freia, a restaurant in Nantes, in collaboration with chef Sarah Mainguy. The edible space is a composition that draws the senses into a delicate and sensitive synesthetic journey. Nature guides not only the melodies and sounds but also the flavors and the menus. Creating a custom soundtrack for a voyage through nature—through both listening and tasting—feels like a natural step. The subtle accompaniment deepens the experience, blending sensations until they become indistinguishable. Lit by candlelight and musical singularity, the three-part edible program offers a true synthesis of taste and analog sound, intertwining the vegetal with organic tones from the seashore, forests, orchards, and gardens. The musical creations are conceived as natural extensions of flavor, playing with harmonies and textures that echo the richness of the ingredients. Often, cuisine and music merge—the connections between these arts are abundant.
The soundscapes combine organic notes with field recordings from greenhouses, fields, shorelines, and forest edges. These carefully captured sounds become a tangible musical material, heightening sensations and strengthening the bond with the places evoked. It is a sonic and gustatory journey, guiding each step away from the urban landscape. In this unique experience, each space offers a singular atmosphere, designed to intensify the interaction between taste and hearing. Rhythms and sonic textures engage in dialogue with the dishes, creating subtle echoes—every bite becomes a poetic gesture, every sound an opening into an imagination shaped by nature. This synesthetic voyage invites us to slow down, to rediscover the beauty of simple gestures and authentic flavors. It celebrates the fragile and precious balance where nature is both muse and protagonist—a living experience that honors the symbiosis between humans, music, and the natural world.
balades polymorphes pour le centre pompidou
live in situ
The concept of the “balades polymorphes” is based on an immersive and sensory exploration of the museum space through music. At regular intervals, once per hour until the event closes, improvised or generative sound performances will take place in different areas of the Pompidou Museum. The goal is to invite the audience to settle in, slow down, and immerse themselves in a musical bubble that is both ephemeral and intimate.
Each performance is rooted in a specific artwork or space. The music, improvised on-site, draws directly from the surrounding atmosphere and energies. It adapts and evolves according to the interactions between the artist, the space, and the audience, creating a continuous oscillation between different musical moods. These suspended moments offer the public a reinterpretation of the spaces and artworks, enriching their experience and perception.
boucle, portrait d’une nature fragile
musical piece for synthetizer
Sometimes, life seems to flow in the right direction—but this feeling haunts me. Art, once my escape, has become my main path. At 25, I long to slow down, to observe natural rhythms and let them guide me. Human inertia, nature’s resilience—these contrasts inspire me.
This desire gave birth to Boucle – musique pour nature fragile, a poetic and musical work rooted in early synthesizer concepts. I built my own instrument, embracing repairable, didactic electronics. Through oscillations, birdsong, wind, and waves, I translate the world into sound, shaping sonic landscapes that reconnect with the organic and the mineral.
Writing, like music, is essential to my process. I seek to merge words and sound, crafting new narratives that awaken slowness, resilience, and optimism. Now, more than ever, I need to write my love song to slowness.
music pour *
A/V live in situ
«Music for * is a versatile electronic musical performance with a variable geometry. It adapts to different venues, spaces, and environments, as well as to different audiences and timeframes. Revolving around currents of improvisation, conviviality, and minimalism, these performances resonate with their surroundings and audiences, inviting contemplation and a journey into a musical universe tailored for the occasion.
While primarily musical, this performance does not exclude the use of low-tech tools developed for suitable occasions. These tools offer the possibility of energy autonomy for the performance, consuming less than 200W.h. Additionally, they provide a new visual dimension with an audio-reactive lighting system. Music for * serves as a modular laboratory putting into practice the changes in sobriety and conviviality that are shaking up the culture.»
Silices
spectacle of new stories
«When we talk about nature, we often forget about the existence of a complete universe on which we walk, live, and above all, exploit: the mineral world. ‘Silica’ is a spectacular work created and designed by Moss Explorers. It tells the story of minerals, showcases the scales of reason and space, and explores the human relationship with the lithosphere. Blending music, lighting effects, and scale models, this artwork invites us into new imaginary horizons.
‘Silica’ breaks away from traditional audiovisual techniques to return to the essentials, combining land art and minimalist technology, along with a live sound experience. Through this performance, we are taken on a cycle of stories, sometimes musical, sometimes narrative, that illuminate carefully arranged dioramas in the scenic environment.
Performed live by Tom Leclerc, an artist, musician, and engineer, this show was co-written by Nathankylosaure, an artist, illustrator, and sculptor. Performed for the first time in «Les Heures Fantômes 2023».
le récit du silence
résidence de création
The residency – the story of silence – in Auvergne in France is a collaboration between photographer Joséphine Leroux and artist musician Tom Leclerc. Capturing suspended moments of life, composition, research and optimism are at the heart of this journey of writing and documentation of Tom’s next album. This album is the creation of a true natural park that can be listened to, where details, microcosms, and sonic curiosities blend together in a unique acoustic journey.
The challenge today is to offer a new imaginary, friendly, inspiring and stimulating curiosity for delicate and bucolic nature. With this collaboration, it is also a real artistic research on the story of tomorrow and appeasement.
Armed with his experience with the Moss Explorer collective. Tom Leclerc is a regular of the mountain and its secrets that inspires him to discover new forms of production and dissemination of art in nature.
Dealing with nature is not an easy task, one must learn to let go.
In the age of capitalist anxiety, simply seeking calmness becomes a difficult thing to do.
And when we finally find it, we are already thinking about finding it again.
In these places, the natural and ephemeral orchestra is alive,
it can invite us to compose with it.
I seek to bear witness to these moments in order to offer the world new imaginaries.
And there are moments, around the bend of a mountain,
where sound comes to life,
offering us a true story of silence.
Tom Leclerc 