La Prophétie est une mémoire, 2025

Sound, stereo, 18 min 41 s, loop
Collaboration between Mona Young-eun Kim and ilia Osokin, composer

 

Work conceived as a pair with the film La Croyance est synthétique

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Presented alongside the film La Croyance est synthétique (Belief Is Synthetic), this sound work offers an auditory interpretation of anaesthesia.

 

Inspired by medieval medical manuscripts, Mona Young-eun Kim imagines music as one of the earliest forms of anaesthesia, believed to  sooth bodies before the advent of modern anaesthesia.

 

In collaboration with composer ilia Osokin, musical scores from the Chansonnier de Montpellier linked to pain and healing were reinterpreted, and relocated within a contemporary medical setting.

 

The melodies are not performed with traditional instruments. Instead, they are recomposed from sounds recorded in contemporary medical spaces. Machine sounds, alarms and sterile ambiences become the very material of the composition.

 

Structured in four movements, the work follows the trajectory of medical care through the dissection room, operating theatre, recovery room and intensive care unit. The transitions between movements are generated from the artist’s own muscular microcurrents, captured during physiotherapy sessions and translated into sound frequencies.

 

Bringing together medieval musical heritage, contemporary medicine and bodily signals, the work creates a sonic journey through the body, where music becomes a space of anaesthesia, memory and transformation.

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Credits
Concept & Field Recording: Mona Young-eun Kim
Composition & Mixing: Ilia Osokin
Physiotherapy: Aurore Hug
Locations: University of Montpellier (Dissection Room), CHU Saint-Éloi (Anesthesia–Intensive Care)
Acknowledgements: Gérald Chanques, Gisèle Clément, Brice Duisit