Floy Krouchi is a bassist, composer of electroacoustic music and radio artist.
She continues to produce Sonic Totem in a variety of forms.

Sonic Totem is an interactive sound sculpture, a receptacle and transmitter of sensitive sounds. Programmable to react to distance and nearby movements, the Totem becomes a versatile instrument of real-time interaction, generating narratives: it carries a circular crown of ultrasonic sensors that trigger and modulate sound sequences according to procedures somewhere between necessity and randomness.

Born of Floy Krouchi 's reflections and creative radio work on genealogy, the Totem is fed by field recordings, interviews and potentially infinite sound documents, made by the artist and recorded in all the places where it is installed. It can also receive and modulate a live audio stream emitted from another location.
The figure of the traditional totem is invoked, a ritual object serving as an interface with the world of ancestors and invisible forces: the sculpture functions as a contemporary "digital totem".
It allows us to reformulate and question the human/non-human/machine ontology, as well as the function of the art object as a magical object.
A "meta-genealogy" emerges: the processes of interactive composition mirror the processes of the Living. Through selection, repetition and mutation, between determinism and chance, sequences are constructed, identities and memories defined, at the level of the cell, the individual and collective history.

After prototyping and realizing the sculpture at the Hangar art center in Barcelona in 2018, Sonic Totem-Interactive Installation sees the light of day at the Dream City Biennial in Tunis, in October 2019.
Accompanied by a team of Tunisian performers and collaborators (Badiaa Bouhrizi on vocals, Nejma Zghidi, actress, Selma Zghidi, text and performance, Marwen Abouda, video mapping and set design), visual artist Ursula Scherrer and Devin Brahja Waldman on saxophone, Floy Krouchi activates a/this first version of Sonic Totem in Tunis, the place of her maternal origins. The wood, metal and horn sculpture, which incorporates a series of interactive loudspeakers, is installed in the center of the chapel in the Medina of Tunis, and surrounded by a quadraphonic device. The installation lasts four days, and the public is treated to two performances: the Totem is presented in the middle of a virtual circular space, around which anyone can rotate 360°. Audiences then interact with the sculpture to generate unique narratives, hybrid identities and spatio-temporal disruptions; performers and musicians accompany them through an arborescent narrative around the object.

"Finally, it could be said that we find in this piece the characteristics of the first mineral and then human artifacts, namely the Verticality of the Shiva lingam, the phallus stone, symbol of Sapiens' verticality, and of which we'll have multiple variations later from pre-Columbian art to Brancusi's column or Duchamp's bottle holder."

Following on from this, Floy has created a radio version to be broadcast on France Culture on May 30, 2021: " Sonic Totem - le Manifeste de l'objet ", in de l'Expérience, directed by Celine Ters.
This radio play is organized as a subversive, musical theater-fiction: several levels of space and time retrace the history of a parallel humanity, based on the traces-memories of a people, contained in the sculpture. The narrative blends past, present and future, approaching a science fiction tale.
From the body's interiority to the formation of planets, from pre-history to possible extraterrestrial life, from the post-anthropocene to a mythical "before" ... a narrative takes shape.

"That's what you are, eternal return, nomad on the spiral of time. I'm going to talk, perhaps, about something that doesn't exist."

Finally, on April 2, 2022, at the Avant-Garde de Césaré festival in Reims, Floy Krouchi presents a new part of this long-running project: Sonic Totem - Le monde à l'envers. This version focuses on an experimental film made by the artist, and edited by Carine Doumit. Produced as part of a two-year residency at Césaré-cncm (2021-2023), the film was shot between a desert in Spain and a forest in Paris, using images from Egypt, the USA and microscopes.

Film and light respond to each other: Yves Godin (lighting designer) has designed a device that plays on the reflection of the film itself.

The stages have been completed:
- Sonic Totem - Second part: The world upside down.
Production: Césaré-cncm / Coproduction: Soluble dans l'Air / Partners: Hémisphère Son / with the support of the Pôle Culture de l'Association des Maisons de quartier de Reims.
- Sonic Totem #1 Le manifeste de l'Objet
Production: France Culture-Radio France.
- Sonic Totem, interactive sculpture
Production: Soluble dans l'air / Coproduction: Art2M, Hangar / Partners: Can Serrat, The Camargo Foundation, Dreamcity Tunis.

Floy Krouchi benefits from a residency at Césaré CNCM/Reims during the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 seasons, funded by DRAC Grand Est.

It has been supported and accompanied by Hémisphère son since 2021.