Mélia Roger is a sound designer for film and art installations. She has a classical music background and owns a Master Degree in sound engineering (ENS Louis-Lumière, Paris, France). She spent the last year of Master in the Transdisciplinary Studies Program at ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland), where she developed an artistic approach of sound, working with voice and field recordings. She is now living between Paris and Zurich, working for post-production films and her own artistic works.

I listened to her work Humeurs and this one struck a deeper sense in me. This work explores the intimacy that water can have. Melia says that from underwater recordings of hydrophones hitting rocks to noisy soundscapes of construction sites, she tries to bring the surroundings into the intimacy of the handwriting. The sound of the paper is then embedded in the current, as is her body and breath.

After listening to this piece, I reflected on the fact that water is one of the most indispensable parts of our lives, but we tend to ignore it. Usually when I walk along the river, I tend to be attracted by the sound of some birds chirping, or some noise. The sound of water is one of the things that I ignore.