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à 20h :
Show 494 : AstroForestry par Antoine Bertin pour Campus Paris

For the past 18 months I have spent a lot of my time in forests wondering about the connections between forest and city. Perhaps having been raised in the urban environment, I have found it very difficult to even find where to start my artistic exploration of forests. The stories on audio tapes about forests I had been endlessly listening to as a child seemed completely out of date, and perhaps even out of place. I had to carve my own audio path through the woods. For the past 18 months I have spent a lot of my time in forests looking into the connections between forest and the universe. When walking in a forest at night, you see stars more than trees and trees more than your own feet. The body of work I have been developing throughout the Embedded Residency program with Sound and Music and Forestry Commission England consists of trying to invent new connections between us and the forest, of elaborating situations and fiction over distance and audio communication devices. Other branches of the body of work will include a sound recording of a peri-urban area from the perspective of a fox (made using a home-made GPS collar), an object resulting of the hybridisation of a radiotelescope and a fox ear, a collection of conversations with rangers from the Forestry Commission and astrobiologists about life, time and space !

Website : www.antoinebertin.com
Blog :www.antoinebertin.tumblr.com

à 20h30 :
Show 394 : Laos Dreamin’ by Anne-Laure Lejosne for Jet FM (Nantes)

I’ve made some binaural field recordings when I was in Laos in january 2009. But I couldn’t find what to do with those sounds until I met Sisada, a young lao woman, living in France and trying to preserve the practice of Kamouh language in her family. She told me it was quite difficult to convice the young generation to learn their original langage. We decided to work together on this piece which mixes kamouh dialect, lao, even sanscrit, a touch of english and french…

The Soundtrack is made of sounds recorded :
in a slow boat, on the majestic Mekong, waiting for the departure from Luang Prabang to Huay Xai (border to Thailand)
in the Bokeo Nature Reserve (Northern Laos), where you can ear many birds, squirrels, deer, gibbons (only singing when the sun rises)…
in a buddhist temple, where monks were saying a prayer
on a little bamboo bridge crossing the Nam Khan river in Luang Prabang
in a lao restaurant
in a village near the Bokeo forest

Kamouh Text : Sisada Heuangpraseuth
Kamouh Song : Boun Nam Chansombat
Sound creation : Anne-Laure Lejosne