RIXC residency, 2025. Rodolphe Macabéo at the Kemeri National Park. © Tuan Mu, Rodolphe Macabéo.
We are glad to welcome the Franco-Canadian sound artist Rodolphe Macabéo at the RIXC residency in Riga! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
In collaboration with Taiwanese artist Tuan Mu, both artists did field research and sound recordings at the Kemeri National Park, resulting in a new sound performance titled Fire dwells in xylem, taking place at the RIXC Gallery, Friday, November 14, 2025 at 19:00 – read more HERE.
Prior to arrival in Riga, RIXC had begun the collaboration with both artists at the SensUs XR platform, resulting in XR artwork titled Ember. It takes inspiration from the collaborative XR project Oyat by artist Tuan Mu and composer Rodolphe Macabéo. Continuing their exploration of the boundaries between nature and technology, life and impermanence, the work weaves together the contemplative vision of ink painting with the 2022 wildfire at Dune du Pilat, reflecting on the natural cycle of destruction and renewal. It was presented at this year’s RIXC Art Science Festival 2025: Plants Intelligence, on October 18 – read more on the festival website HERE.
Download the SensUs app to view the artwork: https://sensusart.rixc.org/app.html
Rodolphe Macabéo is a Franco-Canadian composer, sound artist, and performer exploring the porous boundary between music and the living world.
After four years as a sound artist at an immersive art studio, he stands at the forefront of musical innovation, blending generative systems, instrumental improvisation, spatial composition, and field recording to redefine the relationship between composed music and environmental sound.
Through experimental listening devices — such as stethophones, ultrasonic sensors, and electromagnetic transducers — he captures the hidden vibrations of reality, revealing the bioacoustic dimension of our environments. His meticulous attention to sonic detail anchors a deeply melodic sensitivity, crystallized in his upcoming album De la nature des choses (December 2025), where natural textures meet poetic form.Macabéo’s practice often extends to collaborations and immersive installations.
His sound and music pieces, developed as part of collective projects, have been presented internationally at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, the UCCA Labs and the Boxes Art Museum in China between 2021 and 2024. As an independent sound artist his works have been presented in the Palais de Chaillot and le Houloc in France, at RIXC gallery in Riga, at CutOutFest! in Mexico City and at Bogoshorts in Bogota between 2024 and 2025, and the Grand Palais of Paris in 2026.
The RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Programme is supported by:
the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia.
Residency partner: Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).