MUSIC AND ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY
SOUNDSCAPE AND OTHER MUSICAL BOUNDARIES
Project led by composer Jacky Mérit
The invention of recording has considerably renewed the uses and imaginations of sound. Omnipresent in our daily lives, through an infinite variety of technologies and listening devices, sound has become a driving force in the organization and orientation of both intimate and collective behaviours. These same conditions have given rise to the need to make audible what is silent, what we do not pay attention to or no longer pay attention to.
Introduction to Field Recording
Field recording is at the crossroads of anthropology and music. The aim is for students to learn how to build a personal project (installation, sound and musical path) based on the semantic and musical listening of our environments..
Sound recording experience
Sound recording is usually considered to be a neutral act objectively reflecting what is being recorded. We tend to forget that what the microphone picks up does not represent our listening, what is rendered in the recording offers much more data than what the ear listens to in situ.
In listening to the recorded space, there is a loss of that beautiful freedom of listening, that which is proper to direct listening to the world and which allows each person to choose from the surrounding scene what he or she wishes to hear.
Our perception is discontinuous, produced by instant pick-ups and drop-offs, supported by our freedom to wander, to take, to choose at any moment what we want to hear.
These workshops aim to bring each participant to develop the project by exploring the possibilities of this other musicalization up to his or her invented sound writing.
Calendar :
- 2020-21 : Lycée Stéphane Hessel à Toulouse-France
- 2020-21 : Lycée Professionnel et Technologique Privé Myriam in Toulouse-France
- 2018 : Classes de primaire in La Garenne de Gramat-France
- 2015/16/17/18/19 : Écoles élémentaires et Classes de primaire, Le Vigan, Cajarsc, Martel, Planioles, La Garenne de Gramat-France
Supported by SACEM La Fabrique à Musique Contemporaine and ADDA du Lot.
