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Animal sound – interpretations

Deer roar, hyenas giggle, giraffes moo, hummingbirds hum… We know how to name animal sounds, but do we know how to hear them? From the mythical song of the whale to the well-known song of the cricket to the song of the nightingale – a small, non-exhaustive inventory of our way of listening to the […]

Animal Voice – The Encounter

Does access to wildlife also mean lending one’s voice? For her part, the performer and artist Violaine Lochu knows how to hum with the bees, sing with the nightingale, hoot with the llama, cluck with the ducks or dance with the lark… She practices “complete listening”, the one that transforms and gives itself. “The Encounter” […]

From morning to evening – Ziguinchor

When the siren of the large Ziguinchor factory sounds, residents know it is 7 a.m. The city is waking up. The canoes left the still sluggish shore and set off to sail through the bolongs of the Casamance River. Little by little the streets come to life, bustling with workers and echoing with the excitement […]

From Dawn to Night – Andavadoaka

In Madagascar, on the banks of the Mozambique Channel, life moves and beats at a gentle pace. Day after day, this fishing village awakens with the singing of birds before coming to life with the work of people. Sometimes the voices of young girls from the church can be heard in the choir. In the […]

By heart – the unforgettable sentence

What remains of everything we hear? Words and sounds come back to us, voluntarily or against our will. The baritone Gérard Théruel remembers a sentence, a fragment of an opera that he has sung so often. Memorized excerpt from this episode: “Pelléas et Mélisande”, opera in five acts by Claude Debussy, libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck […]

By heart – The lost language

Can you remember an unknown language? What does our sound memory consist of and how does it build us? Léa Seide remembers a refrain, a few words that sing of her early childhood in her lost native language. Memorized excerpt from this episode: Yalla tnam. SERIES BY ROTE aims to stimulate thought and create creations around […]

The sounds to put it – tic-tac [Série 2/2]

What noise is the weather making? What is the cadence? Time is also a question of sensitivity: it stretches, gallops, flees depending on how you feel. It takes a long time to be over, it goes by quickly. Polyphonic composition around the onomatopoeia “Tic-Tac” and all its resonances. This episode was produced in September 2023 […]

From morning to evening – Istanbul

A cat on the stairs, children on the playground, the voice of the call to prayer from the Blue Mosque, the carriages on the tracks of tram 1, the waves under the Horn of Skytrain bridge. or the street musicians on Istiklal Caddesi… Sound engineer Flavien Gillié invites us on a journey through the city […]

Listen to the world outside your window

What sounds come from the street to the wide open windows? In Cairo, in Quito, in Hanoi, in Naples, the voices of street vendors and passers-by stretch out, call out to each other, echo. At the intersection of four continents, in Egypt, Ecuador, Vietnam and Italy, a solid deployment of far-reaching voices. Listen to the […]

From morning to evening – Dakar

A sound journey through the Senegalese capital from dawn to night: on the roofs of the city in the early morning, at the Pikine fish market, in the express bus, the city’s most popular colorful minibus, on the shores of the ocean, on Yoff beach… This episode was produced as part of the workshop Listen […]