listening
3rd Sound Symposium
In September, the 3rd edition of the Symposium Son brings together artists and researchers for a rich program. Through conferences and round tables, the event aims to explore the many facets of sound language, from acoustic design to new technologies. This edition is co-produced with EDHEA. The symposium will be held in the auditorium of the Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie in Sion.
Friday, September 26th
Afternoon theme: Performed orality
Welcome from 1:00 p.m. Introduction by Christophe Fellay at 1:15 p.m.
1:30 pm Vincent Barras - Emptying words, demilitarizing language, performing
Vincent Barras (CH), historian, performer and doctor. He is developing a body of sound poetry. John Cage, in his emblematic work Empty words, conceived the project of testing, in a kind of utopian maieutic, the passage from language to music. The aim of this presentation is to outline this process.
2:00 pm Violaine Lochu - Vox O xoV
Violaine Lochu (FR/BJ), artist whose practice lies at the crossroads of contemporary art, experimental music and sound poetry. Violaine Lochu's projects are born of encounters, provoked or fortuitous, with entities of all kinds. She presents the different ways in which the notion of orality can be treated in her performances.
2:30 pm Break
14h45Heike Fiedler - Performed orality or When words enter the space of the in-between, the space of liminality
Heike Fiedler (DE/CH), author, poet, visual and sound artist. The artist evokes the multiple realities of orality, and proposes to observe the possibilities of transformation and change that are possible when moving from the inside (speaking body) to the outside (reception space).
3:15 pmJeff Barda - Poetics of the infra-verbal (video-conference)
Jeff Barda (GB), Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, author of numerous articles on sound, visual and intermedia poetry.
3.45 pm Break
4:00 pm Round table moderated by Vincent Barras
4:30 pm End of the day
Saturday, September 27
Morning theme: Listening to machines / conversation with AI
Reception from 09:00
09:30 AlainRenaud - Listening to the machines: rethinking listening to industrial heritage
Alain Renaud (CH), specialist in interactive sound design, member of the Analema Group. The project presented proposes experimental methods for capturing and preserving the auditory heritage of industrial machines and installations, as well as preserving the disappearing auditory skills of operators.
10:00 Oliver Gingrich - Noise:listening to our sound environment from a distance Oliver Gingrich (GB), artist, researcher and artistic director, head of the BA Animation program at the University of Greenwich and member of the Analema Group.
Analema Group's Noise project allows an audience to listen to a variety of sound environments from a distance, and to navigate through several sound environments generated in real time.
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 Gilbert Nouno - Sound improvisation with AI
Gilbert Nouno (CH), composer, sound artist and researcher. The artist explores the theme of AI in music through his artistic research and current projects. He reveals how artificial intelligence can become an improvisational partner, mirror or creative counterpoint, revealing both its strengths and weaknesses.
11.15 Phil Garner - Listening to machines: A speech processing perspective Phil Garner(CH), senior research scientist at IdiapResearch Institute and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
11:45 Round table moderated by Christophe Fellay
12:30 Lunch break
Afternoon theme: Sound and taste
1:30 pm Anne Le Troter - Mâchoire Académie, How to bite
Anne Le Troter (FR), artist specializing in sound installations, performance, literature and poetry. Drawing on the accounts of five professionals who practice the art of biting, the artist takes us on a journey towards a pedagogy of the jaw. Along the way, we return to her installation, presented in the former Sion penitentiary as part of the 2nd Son biennial, offering felt forms of listening, sculptures to be bitten and poetry to be swallowed.
2:00 pm Mélissa Van Drie - The SoundsDelicious Project; Have you ever listened to what you eat?
Melissa Van Drie (DK), cultural historian and artist. She is a researcher at the Orpheus Instituut for advanced music studies and research in Ghent. The Sounds Delicious research-creation project explores the role of sound and listening in our culinary cultures. Through artistic, scientific and gastronomic collaborations, it examines different modes of listening linked to our food production.
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Nikolaj and Lars Kynde - Tasteful Turntable(video-conference)
Nikolaj Kynde (NL), composer, software engineer and sound artist, and Lars Kynde (DK), composer, sound artist and musical instrument designer. The talk focuses on the performative installation TastefulTurntable , which explores the interaction between the senses of taste and hearing: a specially designed, slowly rotating dining table offers guests parallel stimuli through their ears and mouths.
3.15 pm Break
3:30 pm Round table moderated by Anne LeTroter
4:00 p.m. End
Access to the symposium is free, with registration on the EDHEA website.
Program download here
