Prix Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer / Phonurgia Nova Awards 2013

"Un jour, j'ai su qu'il fallait que je prenne la route. J'avais 26 ans, je n'avais jamais fait cela, et je ne savais pas ce que j'allais trouver. Je savais juste qu'il fallait que je le fasse. Il fallait que je prenne la route. Ce n'était pas raisonné, ce n'était pas raisonnable, mais je n'avais pas le choix. C'était une urgence. Ca hurlait en moi "prends la route avec tes micros". Je me suis organisée pour avoir du temps, et dès que j'ai pu : je suis partie. C'était encore l'hiver. J'avais choisi la Loire pour fil d'Ariane. La descendre, de la source à l'estuaire, 1000 km à pied, pour rejoindre la ville où je l'avais vue couler étant gamine - Nantes."
Loire a été sélectionnés dans le cadre de "Du côté des ondes" (soutenue par la RTBF, la promotion des Lettres de la communauté française, la SACD, la SCAM Belgique,la SACD et la SCAM France).

Formée à l'Ecole Nationale des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre, Lyon, elle travaille comme réalisatrice et régisseuse son pour le spectacle vivant. Elle réalise également des pièces sonores.

Loire S. Berger France

Los Gritos de Mexico, soundscape of Mexico City is a 30min sound piece by Félix Blume. 
http://www.felixblume.com/losgritosdemexico
A shorter version is available on Arte Radio. 
https://soundcloud.com/arte-radio-1/los-gritos-de-mexico
Download in Wave 48kHz 24bit on Freesound 
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/260680/

This piece receive a special mention during the "Bienal of Radio from Mexico" and has been broadcasted on more than 30 radio, web-radio and on the Radia Network.

RESUME:
Mexico City: more than 20 millions people gathered making noise!
A noisy city for most; I would like to transform it in a sonorous city.

The street sellers make the voices of the polyphonic choir, the small bell from the ice cream seller substitutes the triangle from the orchestra, and the hammering of the protesters on the metallic wall are the percussions.

In Mexico City, people shout to be heard, they shout their rage against the cops, they shout at the ‘lucha libre’ fights, they shout together ¡ Viva Mexico ! to feel united, and during a demonstration they also shout ¡Viva Mexico ! People shout in church, they pray together or alone, whispering in the silent night.

The thunder booms: nobody can shout at the storm, and the rain cleans the silent city.  A solo voice after the rain, and the choir resumes gradually. 

People sing to forget and the shouting starts again, louder, so that the others don´t forget.

The water flows under the city, the forgotten lake is mourning; it remembers when the city was an Island… On the top, it is too noisy, underneath, the water keeps in silence the secrets of the past.

INTENTION
Most of the people in the world live in cities. The daily soundscape is in most of the case a continuous sound of traffic, close or distant. Mexico City has a series of sounds added to the background which make the specificity of the city: the cries and sounds of the street sellers are in most part responsible.
In the past, most cities had their own cries (as some classical music can testify, like ‘Les cris de Paris’ from Janequin). In Mexico City, this tradition has persisted until today,  but the government and general opinion is not in favour of them: street sellers are each time further away from the touristic center, advertising campaigns are done to make them disappear from the subway, and police operations block their access to the streets.

I would like to pay tribute to these Criers through a soundscape of Mexico City, that will become a sonorous memory of a time that sooner than later will disappear.

Los gritos de Mexico

Weekly Megamix : carte blanche to Arsène Banger

ARSENE BANGER VOL. 1

Thursday 1 February 2024
CTM 2024 – Sustain
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Félicia Atkinson and crys cole in conversation with Daniel Irrgang

At CTM 2024, Félicia Atkinson will premiere »Thinking Through the Iceberg,« an experimental oratorio for three characters, with the collaboration of the abstract guitarist Jules Reidy and the sound artist crys cole.

For Felicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. Her artistic work imagines possibilities of animating and entering into dialogue with such entities. The practice of the sound artist crys cole seeks seemingly mundane materials, with which she creates subtle electro-acoustic works that continuously retune the ear. Ahead of their premiere at CTM, Atkinson and cole will speak with the media and art scholar Daniel Irrgang on their collaboration and intersecting approaches, and on revealing complex and fragile interconnectedness even in places where there seems to be no life at all.

Félicia Atkinson and the residency with crys cole and Jules Reidy is supported by SHAPE+, which is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

CTM 2024: Sounding the Non-human

Christine Groult / Sarah Clénet, Camille Lacroix, Aude Rabillon et Anne-Laure Lejosne : composition

Cinq compositrices explorent différents sites emblématiques du territoire : Montoir-de-Bretagne entre la Brière et son estuaire avec ses terminaux du port maritime, Besné, commune de Brière engagée dans l’Atlas de la biodiversité, Saint-Nazaire à l’embouchure de la Loire avec son littoral maritime et Donges en bordure des raffineries. Avec leurs microphones, les compositrices ont sondé ces eaux multiples si précieuses à notre planète et écouté ce qu’elles ont à nous conter. Chacune des pièces sera donnée en plein air sur les quatre sites. Samedi, au coucher du soleil, l’intégrale de la symphonie retentira au centre de Saint-Nazaire, cité maritime où toutes les embarcations se croisent.

Les Eaux s'accordent, coda (Christine Groult)

Entre Deux Eaux (Anne-Laure Lejosne)

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2024 RUPERT AEP Final Event — Sortie de résidence

Le 26 et 27 octobre 2024, Marseille Bike Polo était invité au Polozoo à Perpignan! Un moment inoubliable dans l'histoire du club. Une opportunité unique pour les joueurs de Marseille Bike Polo de se mesurer avec la crème de la crème du Bike Polo européen, réuni à Perpignan pour ce tournoi. Les pneus des vélos sur le Hard Court, les maillets qui claquent le sol, les balles qui sont tapé contre les bois, les sons de Polozoo parlent pour eux-mêmes. GAME ON!

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