//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?

Isabelle de MULLENHEIM | FR |

Soundwork

Ville murmurée

Abstract

In the sound recording, there is three attitudes : standing by the landscape, making step in the landscape or absorb ourselves into it. As a sound engineer, often I stand up in front of the environment. My gesture and the machine has to be invisible, there is a certain transparency. Listening is extremely physical but the body disappears and only the landscape exists. Through the editing and the performances, I tried to put a part of myself in the composition. I needed to create a relationship with my sounds. This project is about intimacy with an urban environment. How to enter in resonance with the city. Most of the time urban life is difficult, sharp, and we don't want to hear this landscape. I want to take time to listen carefully my city, and see how to reply. I would like to find the poetics elements of this particular landscape. I would like to really improve this space. To take part in this experience, I will record with a quadriphonic system. The space will be larger, and I will be free to move around as I like. The diffusion will stand outside, in that way, the present landscape will enrich the world of the composition.

The Author

EDUCATION DU/music at Sorbonne–Paris IV. Study about children’s humming.1994 DNSEP (Master2) diploma in Art Department /Cinema. Visual arts institut in Orleans. 1993

ADDITIONAL STUDIES Master 2. Sciences, arts and techniques of image and sound. Speciality: Sound creation engineering. par VAE. 2019 Summer university about voice and technology at the IRCAM (musical research institut) Compose with technological tools, voice processing, spatialization. 1999 Training course about sound design on computer at the GRM (Musical research group).1997

ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE Performance since 1999 « Scories sound only», at the Marbrerie, Montreuil. Live spatialization on WFS system « Ceux qui prient… », (how they pray) Acousmatic music meeting. Crane Lab. Bourgogne.Multi diffusion with an acousmonium « Scories sound only » and « La Passerelle » at Le Pont social performance event collectif OIDEM. Paris and at Dimanche rouge event in Divan du Monde, Paris. « Au fond d’un verre de Saké », with Yumi Fujitani, dancer/choreographer, Paris. « Chantonnement » (humming). Original production in Melbourne, at the Immersion festival Composer since 1998 Installation « Don Quichote »,Växjo, « Reasonable Doubt ». Photography museum in Cracov. Exhibitions with Mieke Bal. « Super 8 », exhibition with Katja Lee Eliad. Bucarest. Radio 2013 Documentary creation « Point de bétail ». Diffusion Arte Radio.

AUDIOVISUAL EXPERIENCE sound engineer on documentary film Sound editing/mixing

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