//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?

Marianne VILLIÈRE | FR |

Installation

Alouette, gentille alouette

Abstract

The installation is a performance situated within the framework of the Symposium talks; this artwork refers to a performative project: I post myself with a microphone but instead of speaking the songs of birds that have disappeared from Metropolitan France will be broadcast. My goal is to generate a moment of surprise and a kind of poetic interlude within the framework of classic discussions/conferences. It is a question of drawing attention in the context of a Symposium on something other than the human way _ but embodied by it (and by its silence in particular). This is a performance (but the category does not exist ...) This work/performance refers to a (collective) sound walk of 1 hour in urban public space, Nancy, France having taken place in 2019. During this event, a fanfare broadcasts the sounds of birds that have disappeared from mainland France instead of playing their instruments (brass). The second sound piece is made up of song recordings of endangered or endangered birds - such as the skylark. This "incredible" fanfare diffuses a lost musicality, a sweet alert.

Biography

Education 2014 – Research-based Masters, Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), Switzerland Graduated with honors Thesis: Hiatus, un regard sur les micro-pratiques urbaines comme pratiques de liberté [Hiatus: An examination of urban micro-practices as exercises in freedom] (in French) 2012 – Masters, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art et Design (ENSA), Nancy, France Graduated with honors Thesis: Articulations d’espace [Articulations of space] Winner of the 2014 Gianni Motti Prize Group Exhibitions Il y a, sound installation (with Paul Heintz), exhibition: Brouhaha, Galerie du Granit, Belfort, France, Septembre 2017. Curator: Mickaël Roy Les animaux sauvages, installation/performance, exhibition: Jet Lag/Out of Sync, Young Creators Triennial, June–August 2017. Curator: Anouk Wies C’est qui lui ?, website (with Paul Heintz and Fabien Zocco), exhibition: Generosity, XPO Gallery, Paris, September 2016. Curator: Point Contemporain Four musical, sound installation, Caravane Tighmert Residency/Festival, Morocco, July 2016. Curators: Mohamed Arejdal, Carlos Perez Marin Devenir Mime, installation/performance, exhibition: Emergency, Fonderie Kügler, Geneva, October 2014. Curators: Chiara Bertini, Elise Girardot and Maria Adelaida Samper (Emergency collective) La dame du tram, radio reading, La Reliure, Geneva, May 2014. Curator: Alexandra Roger

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