Musical creation and gardens no 4 - Reciprocal influences: from action to interaction

Parc de Bercy - Pavillon du Lac

Coordinator: Sophie Barbaux
 
This fourth encounter will explore different modes of musical creation and their interaction with nature, gardens, urban or natural landscapes, the spectator and/or his environment becoming part of a work just like any other constituent element.
For example, the sun can enable the sonorisation of poetic, energetically autonomous installations. The wind can improvise its own symphony, making unknown objects vibrate and sound. A walk can trigger, at certain points, the emission of particular sounds, for individual or collective listening. Trees or grass can become musical instruments during some particular activity. Similarly, in a city, the street furniture and parks can produce original music. With today’s interactive telephones one can go for a walk, headphones on, through a aural landscape…
Whether using digital techniques or not, these artistic projects all have a strong, multilayered sense dimension, facilitating different ways of hearing, perceiving, seeing and looking. It offers the (re)discovery of particular relationships between nature and culture… Individual, collective or participative.

9h30 Welcome and presentation of the day session
Laure Marcel-Berlioz, director of the Cdmc and Sophie Barbaux, landscape artiste

10h Interaction and serendipity, engines of creation and of a pedagogical approach
Gilles Malatray, artiste-instructor, specialist in art and environmental sound creation

10h30 Hunter gatherer
Erik Samakh, visual artiste

11h30 From the enclosed garden to urban space
Sylvie Depondt, deputy director in charge of organisation and communication for the office of Green spaces and the Environment for the City of Paris

12h Garden Party
César Vayssié, director

12h30 Sharawadji Garden
Michel Risse, composer / Décor Sonore Company

14h30 Urban Musical Game
Frédéric Bevilacqua, team head for Real-time Musical Interaction at Ircam

15h (((l’ECHO systM)))
Erwan Lhermenier, musician, visual artiste

15h30 Interactive sound pathways
Cécile Le Prado, composer

16h15 Planting sounds?
Isabelle Depret Bixio, director of the La Borie-en-Limousin Foundation, and Louis Dandrel, composer and sound designer, artistic director of the sound design section at La Borie

16h45 Topophony
Roland Cahen, composer, sound designer, researcher, teacher in charge of the studio for sound design at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, and Xavier Boissarie, digital artiste, programmer and director of Orbe.mobi
 
Partnership Cdmc – Ville de Paris