Le jour du kiosque on 78 rpm
Listening session with Pierre Leguillon, activation of 78 rpm machines under the bandstand in the Manoir gardens, followed by a talk by Mathias C Pfund, on Erik Satie.
The bandstand, Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Pierre Leguillon, founder of the Musée des Erreurs in Brussels, and Pierre-André Perrin, director of the Musée du Son (Fondation Guex-Joris) in Martigny, are offering a 78-rpm listening session under the bandstand in the grounds of the Manoir de Martigny. A series of gramophones from different eras, preserved in the Musée du Son, will exceptionally descend from the attic of the Manoir to spin in the open air. Before turning their cranks, Pierre-André Perrin will detail the technical characteristics of the devices, while Pierre Leguillon will introduce the selected tracks.
The chosen tracks will echo the different rooms of the "erratum musical" exhibition, and will not fall under what is generally understood by the term "music". We'll be listening to wind and rain, a group of dogs playing boogie-woogie, Rufus the whistler, birdsong and more. And other nuggets unearthed in the reserves of the Musée du Son, which recently acquired the collection of Jacques Goy, who owned thousands of 78 rpm recordings prior to 1950. These include ambient noises (a factory, a department store, street activity...) and sound dressings that once belonged to the Radio Lausanne sound library.
Also played will be an excerpt from the music composed by Erik Satie for the ballet Parade in 1917. For this "cubist sound collage", Satie was the first composer to introduce ready-made sounds among the orchestral instruments: a typewriter, a lottery wheel, a pistol, a rattle or even a "bouteillophone", a kind of xylophone made from more or less full bottles, which can be tested on the reconstruction presented in the exhibition.
The session closes with Cathy Berberian's brilliant composition Stripsody (1966), a collage of onomatopoeia cut from comic strips, to which the singer lends her voice. Finally, Florence Forster Jenkins, another singer, massacred - let's not mince words - the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's Magic Flute at Carnegie Hall in the early 1940s.
In a second step, the public will be invited to join artist Mathias Pfund at the Musée du Son, who will present his sculpture for a piano keyboard, also based on Érik Satie, and evoke the Véritables Préludes Flasques (for a dog) by the genial Satierik.
