LesconiL2025
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présentation des enregistrementsParticipation du Cresson au projet SOMECO – Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening
dirigé par Heikki Uimonen En 1975, cinq villages en Europe sont étudiés par un groupe de chercheurs canadiens mené par R. Murray Schafer, fondateur du « World Soundscape Project » (WSP). Les villages se situent en France (Lesconil), en Suède (Skruv), en Écosse (Dollar), en Allemagne (Bissingen) et en Italie (Cembra). En 2000, Helmi Järviluoma, de l’Université de Turku en Finlande, démarre avec une belle équipe pluridisciplinaire (acousticien, musicien, architecte, ethnologue, musicologue…) un projet intitulé Acoustic Environments in Change. Ce projet est une recherche sur l’évolution des paysages sonores des cinq villages étudiés 25 ans auparavant par Murray Schafer et son équipe. En 2025, le projet SOMECO revisite Le Laboratoire Cresson a été invité à l’étude sonore du village français de Lesconil, petit port situé à la pointe Les enregistrements présentés ici rassemblent le travail de terrain mené par juL McOisans, Cédric Pichat & Nicolas Tixier du 30 avril au 7 mai 2025. |
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Trawlers return 2 trawlers are acoasting back from a fishing day. A small crowd has gathered on the dock awaiting them like a ritual or a daily rendez-vous. Some tourists among them but also many inhabitants comen to give a hand to the unloading & directly buy fresh fish & shellfishes. _____ A quiet moment Recording silence. It’s an official day off. The village is quasi desert until late in the morning. Noone in sight. Only the wind & the ocean are roaming. Even the goelands make themselves discrets. _____ On the dyke Walking along the dyke, facing the wind with a binaural microphone. A schizophonic effect : in one ear, the agitated outer sea with waves breaking on the dyke, in the other the quietness of inside port. ….. On the dyke 1 A static recording at mid-course of the dyke. A schizophonic effect : in the left ear, the agitated outer sea with waves breaking on the dike, in the right the quietness of inside port. ….. On the dyke 2 Another static recording at the point were the waves join the beach. _____ Halyards in the wind (Cédric) _____ Motorbikes Young people passing by with their noisy motorcycles. Here in front of the « placitre du port », caught from the terrasse of the Quincy café. They are part of Lesconil sound markers. Everyone complains about, but some elder people admit they’ve done the same at their age… _____ Catamaran’s launching Catamaran are getting to the water. Cédric has started to record the action from the top of the pier & juL pursue with binaural at the nearest of the group, when the teacher explain how to cord & raise the spi-veil. _____ Beach ambiance By the end of the afternoon, when the sea is at its warmest. An ambiance recording on the eastern beach. Unfortunately the beach-volley team had just stopped playing, but you can imagine… Further north one can ear the bells of 7 pm ringing. _____ Breizhonic A young local guy, who’d learned breton’s speaking (breizhonic) at Diwan’school, likes to seize the opportunity to talk with elder people, when he’s back to the village. _____ Eckmuhl’s cow Visit to the Lightninghouse of Eckmühl, in Pen’march, because of the first visit here by the canadian team in 1975. Climbing up the 290 steps, with a short talk with the security guard on the top platform. Explains where the former foghorn (the famous « cow of Eckmuhl ») was until 2000 & why she was stopped. _____ Haliotika frontside, inside & backside Since the closing of Lesconil’auction its activities have been transported to Le Guilvinec in a huge equipment called Haliotika, which gathers the unloading dock, the auction, the conditioning of sea production &, at the upper floor, a museum of fishing. We paid a visit there at a moment of intense activity. ….. Passengers deck Tourists watching the trawlers back from fishing, from the upper deck of Haliotika/auction/fishing museum. ….. Guided tour Cédric…. ….. The elder’s conversation On the side of the unloading dock, 4 or 5 old people, retired fishermen & 2 women are talking about fishes, fishing rules, fishing technics pratices, fishing evolution… _____ Plaisance violin On the yachting harbour’s deck, late in the evening. A violin’s player inside the cab conterpointed by distant seagulls. _____ The world’s largest ears (experience #3) Simultaneous recording of the 12 o’clock’ bells of Lesconil’s church. 4 takes at around 100 meters from the belltower: Heikki=East, Cédric=South, Meri=Ouest, juL=North. The best restitution would be a 4 points sound installation, but here we present a drastic stereo reduction : the 4 recordings have been transcoded in mono & then distributed on a stereo balance. We kept the length of each recording & synchronized them on the bells. _____ Market ambiance The wednesday morning market place. It is constituted by two rows of mobile market stalls. We walk through a long cross-fade effect of voices & bits of conversations caught on the way. _____ UKIE A meeting with the crew of the UKIE (où qu’y est = where is it ?) boat returning from fishing. Helped by Morgan manipulating a little crane, Alex & his teammate are unloading & cleaning the boat, sorting & preparing the boxes of fishes, molluscs & crustaceans before bringing them the auction in Le Guilvinec. _____ Holiday camp Another sound mark of Lesconil nowadays. Here & there we regularly meet a herd of children in holiday camp, walking & joyfully talking in an organized disorder, guided by their supervisors. (Mixage of two occurrences) _____ Galloche Cédric ? 250507_galloche2.WAV _____ 24 hours of LesconiL A specific protocle of this reconducted survey consisting in recording 10 minutes at the begining of each hour, all through day, at a certain place. It gives a 4 hours long recording. A bit too much for a common listening. So how to reduce it on a time scale ? There is no obvious solution. Take smaler bits of each recording, trying to crossfade them for a fluid listening, remains very subjective. Here are 3 proposals : ….. 24h de Lesconil – timescale1/48 Montage taking around one minute of each recording, trying to keep a representative moment of the ambiance at the time ….. 24h de Lesconil – timescale1/144 Montage taking a few seconds of each recording, trying to keep a representative moment of the ambiance at the time ….. 24h de Lesconil – team & people Montage taking only the team’s announcement at the begining or the end of each recording & some interactions with passer-by. |
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a few ambiance pictures |
The finnish team: Meri Kytö during the 24h recording & traffic count Heikki Uimonen taking measures – in the rear, the former auction & the boat Ukie Anne Tarvainen – in the rear, the long dyke Le Guilvinec’s auction / Haliotika / fishing museum with the passengers deck onboard the UKIE |