//Unheard_Landscapes - listening | resonating | inhabiting 10th FKL/ENP/AAU_CRESSON International Symposium on Soundscape BLOIS | October 27 -30

Unheard landscapes: this metaphor leaves space to imagination, to the un-thought, to the un-known, to past and future, as well as unexplored sound scenarios. It also reaches the field of auditory perception, the acoustic domain. Sound, through auditive qualities, acoustic phenomena, design practices, artistic creations, and listening experiences, offers an inspiring transversal entry onto landscapes and ambiances. Beyond the discussions on “soundscape”, approaching ordinary environments through sounds increases the awareness of our own capacities to feel, while we inhabit and move across different worlds. From an ecological perspective, resonance appears a key word, too. It puts sound and space together. It implies the idea of a plurality of bodies, things and living beings vibrating all together, sharing common contexts of time and space. The act of listening bypasses the passive meaning it usually receives. It contains in itself a completely unexpressed potential, connoted with «project», «pro-action» and «active decision» by individuals. What will be the sounds of the future and the soundscapes in which we will live, or would like to? How can listening practices evolve, how will we listen or how differently could we listen to the world around us, tomorrow? Inhabiting the world brings to us questions about how we want to manage our being in it. How do we want to inhabit the world sonically? How sound and listening do actually affect our way to inhabit it? Have we lost some of our abilities to resonate with the world? What remains to be heard? Where could the practices of listening and attuning take us to?

Pierre PROUTEAU | FR|

Paper

The Potential of Sound Systems – Processional Shunt from Thailand to France

Abstract

Biography

EDUCATION 2016-present: PhD candidate at LESC (University Paris Nanterre) and CASE (EHESS). Thesis provisory title: Buddhism, Body and Machines, the Sound Systems of Thailand (Under the direction of Sabine Trebinjac and Dana Rappoport) 2013-2016: Master’s degree in “Southeast Asian Studies” and “Music and Social Sciences” (EHESS) 2013-2020: degrees in Thai and in Lao languages (INALCO) 2011-2013: degree in Musicology (University of Lille 3) 2008-2010: Preparatory School in Literature and Humanities (Lycée Descartes, Tours) PUBLICATIONS - « The Dual Fate of the Twin Horns – from United States anti-communist weapon to the Phetchabun processionnal bands’ sound system (Thailand) » Haukamp, Hoene and Smith Eds. Asian Sound Cultures, London: Routledge, forthcoming. - co-writer with Lamontagne S. « The Thai King Passes, the Music Stops », Ethnomusicology Review, UCLA (http://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/thai-king-passes- music-stops), 03/01/2017 COMMUNICATIONS - « Thai Ritual Soundspaces : Anarchistic Maximalization or Sonic Architecture ? », at BFE/SFE Joint Conference, U. of London, 2019 - "What electricity had done to Thai music? « Long drums » procession bands and the « low style » electronic music’’, AAS in Asia, Bangkok, 2019 - « Silence national – impact et mutations du silence après la mort du roi Rama IX de Thaïlande, octobre 2016 - octobre 2017 » (https://soundcloud.com/user-897145586/sets/faire-silence-experiences), Faire silence, Marseille, 2019

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