Organized in partnership with the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva (MEG), this workshop is co-led by ethnomusicologist and curator Madeleine Leclair and artist and sound producer Amandine Casadamont. It offers an exploration and interrogation of the audio archives of the former Afrosonica – Sonorous Landscapes project and the AIMP (International Archive of Popular Music) collection at MEG. The workshop provides an immersive experience into Amandine Casadamont's unique practice, at the intersection of radio performance, performance art, and sound installation. The program includes collective listening sessions, a visit to the MEG (sound library, instrument reserve), and working sessions with the archives. Participants will learn the fundamentals of sound editing and sound writing by producing a short composition presented during a collective listening session at the MEG auditorium.
This workshop examines the power of sound and music: how to inscribe the archive into the present, create connections between humans and non-humans, transmit knowledge and emotions, and activate memory? Writing the invisible within a documented sonic space.
The exhibition Afrosonica – Sonorous Landscapes connects, in one place, the intimate sphere of each individual, space and time, ancestors and landscapes, in a sensitive and sonic way. It falls within the fields of sound studies and sonic anthropology, mobilizing notably acoustic ecology (listening to environments to understand their relationships), sonic memory, and a relational aesthetics of listening conceived as a social practice that reconfigures connections.
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The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop, on the degree of active engagement of the participant-e-x and on a sonic output during a collective listening session on Friday at the MEG auditorium.