A contraction of ‘high’ (euphoric state) and ‘tunes’ (melody), pronounced like the software developed by Apple since 2001, the HyTunes composition produced by Lyele acts like a sound opera in three acts, manipulating sounds like frozen emotions.

• Act 1: the customer, the consumer.
• Act 2: the seller, the one who goes to the coalface.
• Act 3: a synthesis via synthetiser towards a potential healing.

Like an initiatory process, this cycle adopts its structure from the eight-stage narrative circle devised by Dan Harmon, creator of the cartoon Rick and Morty, creating a loop to be formed between desires and needs, weaving together intertwined stories. In an initial reading of the substance of this musical proposal, Lyele explores addictions: questioning artificial relief, vivid memories, dependency, system D, social quest, belief, money and lawless infinite competition. A more abyssal listening allows us to hear this proposal as an allegory: Lyele, a prolific producer and composer of the French scene, reflects here in the persistent tension that runs through him as an artist evolving in a music industry – how far does the real boundary of his freedom lie? A final listen invites us on a sentimental and experimental journey through the dark roots of contemporary music. By deliberately manipulating a base of very generic sounds, now commonly used to compose trap music, Lyele questions both the normalisation of the industry in which he evolves, and the possibility of subverting it. Through certain notes that he reverses, cuts up or slows down, Lyele evokes, in a hauntingly way, the sonorities and rhythms that make up drum’n’bass, chopped and screwed, footwerk and so on, culminating in an electronic gospel that washes up back to the starting note: the quest for light is rooted in the textures of our (inter)dependencies.

Sound laboratory, Room 37 becomes 37db, when the Palais de Tokyo entrusts this oval space to artists, musicians, and composers to explore the exhibition through acoustic experiences. These invitations go beyond the field of contemporary art, expanding its boundaries and decibels.