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Study session: Installing sound
Auditorium de l’Institut finlandais
By nature, sound is mobile.
Ever more creative artistes - visual artists or composers - « install » sound, configure it in particular spaces and in dedicated forms.
For these artistes, who come from totally different horizons, do these new forms concern the same approaches, the same practices ? To which creative and historical necessities do they respond ? What new relationship with the public are they or are they not in the process of setting up ?
Brought together for this study session, those involved in these two disciplines, musical and plastic – creative artistes, historians, musicologists, gallery directors, programmers, critics, etc. – did set out their practical experience in order to attempt an appraisal of what lies beneath the common denominator of « sound installation ».
Plastic and/or musical sound installations: Territorial crossroads ? What bridges ?
On the occasion of the presentation of the musical and plastic installation Chambre du Temps by Claire Renard (composition and original idea) and Esa Vesmanen (design, video and lighting) at the Finnish Institute in Paris (7-30 November 2007), a study day organised in collaboration with the Cdmc and the Finnish Institute.
Moderator: Pierre-Yves Macé, music critic, composer, collaborator of the periodical Mouvement
Places and territories – James Giroudon : Musics on stage
Places and territories – Daniel Deshays : Writing the sound
Places and territories – François Quintin : Series of sound installations
Places and territories – Jérôme Delormas : Institution and independence
Places and territories – Philippe Franck : Sound installations and digital arts
Places and territories – James Giroudon, Philippe Franck : Institutions
Places and territories – Conclusion by James Giroudon, Daniel Deshays, François Quintin, Philippe Franck…
Creative artistes and other protagonists – Claire Renard, Esa Vesmanen : Chambre du temps [The Room of Time]
Creative artistes and other protagonists – Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi : Interactive sound installations Creative artistes and other protagonists – Emmanuel Lagarrigue : The sound as part of plastic installations
Creative artistes and other protagonists – Conclusion by Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi, Claire Renard, Emmanuel Lagarrigue…
The critique – Claire Fagnard : Art history and aesthetics
The critique – Bernard Girard : The Radio
N.B.: Because of a technical problem beyond our control, Bastien Gallet’s intervention is not available. Thank you for your understanding.