Musical Creation and gardens no 3

Pavillon du Lac (Parc de Bercy)

 “From historical constructions to installations or contemporary sound and landscape objects”
Coordination Sophie Barbaux
 
Garden construction: a small-scale garden construction consisting of an inner space, acting as the framework for a walk by controlling viewpoints and by presenting the walker with a resting area sheltered from inclement weather. Built with highly diverse materials and occasionally making use of plant substances or synthetic materials, the constructions take their design from the architecture of different periods or areas of the world, or illustrate philosophical, literary or religious themes.

“The garden, typological and technical vocabulary”
Marie-Hélène Bénetière. Editions du Patrimoine/Monum

From Antiquity gardens have comprised small-scale constructions, places of rest or pleasure, such as that of listening to a musical composition. Throughout history these little architectural creations have been found in landscapes, and their apotheosis as constitutive elements was reached in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, in the so-called English style gardens, then in those referred to as Anglo-Chinese. Popular forms are also present in urban espace, in specific manifestations such as ‘Dance lime trees’ or bandstands, places for meeting, for music, for dance…
Today, composers, sound sculptors, architects… reconnect with this tradition by creating specific spaces, constructed or not, for housing sound creations. These are so many installations or contemporary objects assigned to the listening of music in all its forms.

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Partnership Cdmc – Ville de Paris
 
. 9 h30 Welcome by Laure Marcel-Berlioz and Sophie Barbaux
 
Historical survey… From antiquity to the 18th century…

. 9h45 Myths and realities, the garden in Antiquity
Bruno Marmiroli, architect (DPLG) and landscape artiste

. 10h15 ‘Parcs à fabriques’ or Anglo-Chinese gardens of the late 18th century
Dominique Cesari, author of Les jardins des Lumières en Ile-de-France: Parcs à fabriques, Jardins anglo-chinois, Folies

More popular forms

. 11h Bandstands
Marie-Claire Mussat, professor at the University of Rennes 2 and author of La Belle Epoque des Kiosques à musique

. 11h30 The “Dance lime trees”
Pierre Albuisson, artiste

. 12h Music and gardens: tradition or revolution?
Sylvie Depondt, deputy director for events and communication for the Direction des Espaces Verts of the city of Paris

. 12h30 Summary of the morning’s talks
Jean-Luc Wisler, events manager for green spaces in the city of Nantes and journalist for France Bleue Loire-Océan

Contemporary projects

. 14h30 Panorama of the evolution of the concept of construction in the 20th and 21st centuries
Sophie Barbaux, landscape artiste

. 14h45 ‘Backtothetrees’: night in the forest at Besançon
Lionel Viard, artistic director of the Elektrophonie association

. 15h15 Cosmic gardens
Interacting designers: Gorka Alda, composer, Charles Poisay, plastic artiste and Pierre Binétruy, astrophysicist

. 15h45 Bits of wood
Will Menter, musician and sound sculptor

. 16h15 Blind day, deaf night, the paradox of landscape
Christian Sébille, director of the Gmem/Marseille, former director of Césaré/Reims

. 16h45 Festival ‘Between courtyard and gardens’
Complementary perspectives of the programme director and the owners of one of the gardens of the festival, Frédéric Bonnemaison, festival director, Jean-Bernard and Véronique Guyonnaud, owners of the gardens of Barbirey

. 17h15 Summary of the afternoon’s talks
Jean-Luc Wisler, city centre and events manager for green spaces of the city of Nantes and journalist for France Bleue Loire-Océan