The Sound Walks are hybrid projects, somewhere between graphic, sound and documentary creations, giving a reading of a territory through its inhabitants, through soundscape and human ecology. Each participant is invited to follow a route with the help of an MP3 walkman and a map specially designed for each project. The encounters, organised as surveys, are cast in the form of interviews; The Walks lead from one point to another and from one person to another. They last approximatively 3 hours, including 1h20 of listening to sound creations and interviews. The Sound Walks be performed at any time of the year in the vicinity of Paris, Limoges, Aubusson, Mulhouse. |
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>>>>>>> “Remnants or the foundation of Cyberecology” Abbaye de Maubuisson - Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône (95) |
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... listen : JARDIN (GARDEN) - Chbani Lahoussine (voice FR) Industrial wastelands, abandoned railways, human remains within the abbey, this Sound Walk touches upon the remnants of human activity. Cybernetics date from antiquity as a governing art; heavy responsibilities were given to ship pilots in the course of war operations. In the 50s, Weiner defined cybernetics as the knowledge of a set of phenomena that can appear within a belligerent, mechanical, biological or other form of system, together with the implementation of the communication required for effective action. The aim devoid of any metaphysical aspect. Cyberecology underlines how mankind, in separating himself from nature, establishes a distance from and a power over his environment which ensures him his essential primary living conditions. The town, and especially the new town, built from above by politicians and technicians, stands as a social and a technological machine. It reflects a pragmatic trend in land planning, a faith, a belief carried by science, where the successive ideologies of modernity -positivism, scientism, humanism, hygienism, materialism, etc- are borne by the collective unconscious and education, allowing man to free himself from the bondage of nature through technology.
Produced by : Abbaye de Maubuisson |
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>>>>>>> Marche Sonore [EAU] #1 - 2007/2009 The aim of this walk is to illustrate a succession of different ways of approaching water. Yesterday, millers, craftsmen and farmers were concerned as to how water ran through their land and how to share it. Nowadays, water is under the protection of scientific officials, ethnologists, and researchers. This transformation generates frustration and misunderstanding, or respect and listening. Produced by : Quartier Rouge, Pays’Sage, Les Sœurs Grées |
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>>>>>>> Marche Sonore [EAU] #2 - 2008/2009
Water is at the heart of spiritual practices, and is particularly revealing of a need to give body to the irrational. Votive practices, rituals, acts of penitence around the Bonnes Fontaines of the Limousin reveal ongoing practices : does suffering enable us to survive? Produced by : Quartier Rouge, Pays’Sage, Les Sœurs Grées |
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>>>>>>> Marche Sonore au Markstein - 2007 This first Sound Walk is the outcome of a proposal by Pierre Redon, whose artistic work has for several years focussed on mountainous areas. Around fifteen personalities and local actors living and working on the site of Markstein have been interviewed by the artist about certain emblematic subjects concerning the territory : arnica, agriculture, tourism, and ski practice. These testimonies invite the walker to question his relationship with landscape and the environment. The sound compositions were created by the artist from field-recordings during the winter 2007.
Produced by : P.N.R. des ballons de Vosges, Syndicat Mixte du Markstein, |
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