Sound / Experimentation through practice

Teacher: Sylvie Bouteiller

Work areas

Three areas of educational activities:

- revisit the history of the construction of experimental devices in science and art.

- practice listening attentively to the superficial or surface and interface properties of the soil, the physical interactions in the environment.

- Question the methods of translating the experience of perception linked to microscopic and macroscopic representations of time.

Become aware of the life and sounds that coexist with humans outside the commonly accepted musical environment. It means listening to different points, “the gray point” for P.Klee. Practicing listening, an art of activation, an art which, like that of chemists, needs an apprenticeship, a time of in situ research, exploration, observation of ways of proceeding that no general proposal does not has the power to anticipate.

Perspectives of sound and listening: a thought of the living, of heterogeneity, of immediacy, of the poetic action of sound as a radical language.

The art of radical immanence is the capacity for each person to confer on a situation in which the group is occupied, the strength to oblige it to think, that is to say the capacity not to submit in this situation to ready-made generalities, but to seize the power to feel and to think the metamorphoses. It is to participate in the emergence of a group that has become capable of identifying itself and expressing its interests in a mode that constitutes it.

A learner who seeks how a situation holds and how it can be transformed, creates a learning path nourished by the attempts at transformation that this situation arouses. It is in the creation of a report that will be translated the production of tools specific to allow the group to articulate what it lives or undergoes.

course materials

- 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

- theory on sound, physics, science in relation to the subject seen in class, a historical contribution from the sociology of science, press articles, reviews, literary and philosophical works...

Teaching materials

- audio/electro equipment: condenser microphone, shotgun microphone, contact microphone, recorder, headphones, power amplifier, pre-amp, electronic components, etc.

- scientific laboratory equipment: beakers, petri dishes, cables, electrics, instruments for measuring audio/electrical signals and spectral analysis.

- manual for the transmission and use of the tools.

- an agenda of cultural events, concerts, exhibitions, etc.

- a shared sound library on the erg cloud.

- communication by email.