The Unheard Walks

by Stéphane Marin, produced by Espaces Sonores and Les Thérèses
2014

Stéphane Marin invites a group of 15 to 20 people to (re)discover the sound environment of a territory by walking and engaging in different types of sensory listening experiences. Through the use of "augmented" listening, by superimposing a porous sound creation onto the natural "in situ" listening, we propose to radically modify the listening framework. The sounds in the headphones interact with the sounds of the places traversed, inviting participants to rediscover them, revealing them synesthetically in a new way.

In-situ experience
Other
Suitable for all audiences
from 45 to 60 minute(s)
Without dialogue
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After a Listening Yoga session, Stéphane Marin accompanies a group of "listening walkers" on a soundwalk subtly suggesting listening points, inviting them to listen in new ways through his presence. Whether in contact with sounding material, in the closest intimacy with the sound object, or listening to the natural resonances of a place, he weaves a shared sound fabric with the audience step by step. Whether through open and porous headphones that allow the surrounding sound environment in, or, on the contrary, through soundproofed headphones that cut us off from it, the soundtrack composed in echo with the places traversed comes to re-compose a shared and experienced sound landscape, here and now, where previously only noise was heard...

Between immediate listening to the on-site sound environment and headphone listening to field recordings collected beforehand and reassembled in the studio, this infra-ordinary soundwalk takes shape. The device sharpens all perceptions in a synesthetic way. By creating a disturbance within the various perceptions, it also recenters the listeners at the heart of the spaces they traverse.

In order to better grasp the sonic specificities of the places, we use both traditional microphones (stereo pairs, shotgun mics, parabolas) and less conventional ones such as in-ear binaural microphones, contact microphones, as well as hydrophones, geophones, and electromagnetic field microphones. Some of these recording devices allow previously unheard sounds to be heard and literally plunge into the heart of the material to make an unheard of sensory reality audible.

Listening to the indigenous musicality of sounds is a gateway to certain issues in sound ecology. Whether they are natural or urban, non-human or technological, discreet or persistent, conscious listening refines the qualitative perception of these sounds and helps to reclaim them - as well as their territory of emergence - without discrimination.

From this intimate listening to places, a new sound geography emerges, a unique and sensitive representation of the spaces traversed, a soundscape experienced together, in situ.

 

 

 

 

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In-situ experience
Experience
Terms
Multi-users
Interactivity
Linear
Capacity
From 10 to 20 people
Duration
From 45 to 60 minute(s)
Audience
Categories
Suitable for all audiences
Minimum age
6 years
Prices
Prices
From 2000€
Languages
Original language
Without dialogue
Dubbing
Subtitles
Team
Interpreter
no
Public outreach
no
Technician
no
Material
Equipment
Other
Internet connection
Not required to broadcast the artwork
A workshop may accompagny this artwork.
Awards
Programming
Observatoire PhoNographique Sensible du Pays de Montbéliard Ma Scène Nationale - Montbéliard (France), 2021
Semana de la Escucha Auditum - Medellìn (Colombia), 2019
Fête de la Nature MNHN - Museum national d'histoire naturelle - Paris (France), 2019
When Art meets Science Bozar / Tour & Taxis - Bruxelles (Belgium), 2018
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Direction
S M
Composition and sound design
Stéphane Marin
Production-distribution
Production
Espaces Sonores
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Production
Les Thérèses
Broadcasting
Espaces Sonores
 
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