Sound / Sound as raw material

Teacher: Sylvie Bouteiller

objectives

Capturing an elementary tension, a relationship of great gaps between life and art, between an atmospheric agent and a sound artifact, between everyday icons, their degree of automation and the potential of unusual materials, their margin of indetermination.

Think about the statuses, conceptual and communicational assets given by sound mediations.

Seize the affordance of the technical gesture and extract an individual and singular operational framework as a radical artistic language.

Understanding the inventive power of sound as doubly plastic and acoustic or even from the point of view of science.

The group listening and reflection sessions are structured around the course materials.

Reversing the logic of the evolution of recording techniques, working on sound reproduction tools, means setting out to discover new perfections of the object of observation.

Re-invoke listening by making a sound artifact, a device that combines gesture / material / tool.

By understanding sound at its source, through slow processes of taking the shape of crystals with piezoelectric properties. Invent tools to meet the requirements of research, to bring matter and sound into contact.

It is also a time open to the actualization of the intimate nature of slowness in the creative process.

supports

- historical contribution from Dadaism to current sound art, poetry, video, concerts, art films and documentaries for the understanding of a radical approach

- contribution of sound archives in ethnomusicology and paleo-acoustics

- theoretical on sound, physics, science in relation to the material seen in class, a historical contribution from the sociology of science, press articles, magazines, literary and philosophical works, etc.

- instruments for measuring and analyzing audio/electrical signals

- manual for the transmission and use of tools

- a calendar of cultural events, concerts, exhibitions, etc.

- a shared sound library on the erg cloud.

- communication by email.

- create a logbook.