Listening spot & sound belvedere
2024 EditionThe teams are invited to conceive and draw listening spot installed on the hearing point by dialoguing with the sound identity of the place, the acoustics of the habitats and the inhabitants.
The idea is to make a video (5 min max) around the hearing point by exposing the furniture project that enhances it. It relates the sound atmosphere perceived by the ones who stand at the hearing point. The choice of the place, an existing public one, is up to the candidates.Cécile Regnault and Gilles Paté contest organizers
Listening is a political act of resistance to technocratic decisions of urban planification. It opens other dimensions of knowledge of landscapes and cityscapes. If many collectivities have an observatory on noise perturbances, townplanners have very few tools to explore sound qualities of urban spaces.
Listening is also an act of sharing : share a soundscape that inscribes in everyday practices, seasons and cycles that remind us that we are all actors of the same ecosystem.
Choose a sound spot, take time to slow down and listen to the world around us, open virtually a sound focus in the wide horizon. Choose it for its negative or positive singularity: disturbing noise, micro sounds, quiet space , far noise in wide horizon...
Choose a soundeffect in the soundscape, it's emphasizing a sonic specificity: vocality, specific effect, resonance, flicker echo or other effects. It can be revealing a sound ambiance: a sound belevedere to listen to the rising screams of the crowd, show depth of field, melting sound strats.
The hearing spots found in your cities soundscapes will be gathered on a map to constitute a collaborative inventory. They will form an archive of soundtracks of cities to share between inhabitants, creators, professionals. It will create with exemples of other country a Mondial network of hearing spots.
Document territories by sound is at the same time geophonia, biophonia, sound anthropology; it serves as ressource to design landscape and architectural projects.
The summarized document about Place au Son 2024 here.
Listening is also an act of sharing : share a soundscape that inscribes in everyday practices, seasons and cycles that remind us that we are all actors of the same ecosystem.
Choose a sound spot, take time to slow down and listen to the world around us, open virtually a sound focus in the wide horizon. Choose it for its negative or positive singularity: disturbing noise, micro sounds, quiet space , far noise in wide horizon...
Choose a soundeffect in the soundscape, it's emphasizing a sonic specificity: vocality, specific effect, resonance, flicker echo or other effects. It can be revealing a sound ambiance: a sound belevedere to listen to the rising screams of the crowd, show depth of field, melting sound strats.
The hearing spots found in your cities soundscapes will be gathered on a map to constitute a collaborative inventory. They will form an archive of soundtracks of cities to share between inhabitants, creators, professionals. It will create with exemples of other country a Mondial network of hearing spots.
Document territories by sound is at the same time geophonia, biophonia, sound anthropology; it serves as ressource to design landscape and architectural projects.
The summarized document about Place au Son 2024 here.
The competition is opened to all students enrolled in higher education (Grandes Ecoles and universities), during their studies and including three years after graduation: architecture, urban planning, landscape, geography, design, arts, music, theatre, cinema, engineering are the main disciplines targeted
The team is made up of at least two students from the above-mentioned specialities; it chooses a representative who will be the main contact with the organisers. Registration for the competition should be made by e-mail to :
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
The representative sends the team's identity form in the form of a PDF file including copies of the student cards of all the members of the team (Last nameFirst name of the representative.pdf).
When the team's application is accepted, the organizer will assign a team number to ensure the anonymity of the competition.
The team is made up of at least two students from the above-mentioned specialities; it chooses a representative who will be the main contact with the organisers. Registration for the competition should be made by e-mail to :
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
The representative sends the team's identity form in the form of a PDF file including copies of the student cards of all the members of the team (Last nameFirst name of the representative.pdf).
When the team's application is accepted, the organizer will assign a team number to ensure the anonymity of the competition.
The competition report consists of two files:
File 1 Audiovisual present-future: production of a double portrait of the chosen public square. This sound portrait consists of a present-future soundtrack, accompanied by a series of still images (drawings, photos, virtual images, etc.).
-The "present" part expresses the state of the square as it exists today, with its surroundings, and make us listen to a hearing spot found in a specific part of the place
-The "future" part stages the fiction of the square tomorrow, with drawings of the sound furniture and insertion in the site, plans, animation, photomontage...
-Length of the video: 5 minutes maximum-Video format: .mov or mp4, in full HD (1920x1080 pixels) with the understanding that the audio of the file (mono or stereo) will be of 48 kHz, 24 bit quality.-
Title of the video:
teamnumbervideotitle.mov
(example 23larepubliquesonnante.mov)
File 2 Project brief :
on A4 landscape format
to be downloaded from www.placeauson.org including-team number (given at registration) only (without the names of the participants)
-view of the square in the city, specifying the name of the square, the city, the country
-a text of 300 words maximum specifying the title of the project, a brief description of the existing sound environments and the bias of the future projection
-an emblematicimage of the project (300 dpi)
-digital format of file 2.pdf-title of file 2 n° teamtitleofthevideo.pdf
(example: 23larepubliquesonnante.pdf)
-Choice and quality of the acoustic caracterisation of a hearing spotand its sound effects in the urban space chosen for the project.
-Quality of the video realization
-Acoustic and architectural quality of the design sound belvedere and creativity in its sonic device
-Visibility of the transdisciplinary team
• April 1st, 2023 : launching the competition.
• November 15, 2023: limit date for team inscriptions
• December 10, 2023 midnight (Paris) : limit date for films delivery
• December 2023 : jury and decision of winners
• January 2024 : price ceremony during the Week of Sound with the laureates and participants
• Year 2024 exhibition of winners projects and preparation of prototypes
1st prize :realization of scale 1 prototype of the designed object
2nd prize : realization of scale 1 prototype of the designed object
3rd prize : audio equipment
4th prize : audio equipment
2nd prize : realization of scale 1 prototype of the designed object
3rd prize : audio equipment
4th prize : audio equipment
President: Michel Risse, composer, Paris
Catherine Guastavino psychoacousticien, teacher (University Mc Gill, CA)
Nicolas Misdariisresearcher sound designer (Ircam, FR)
Nadine Schützarchitect, sound artist (CH)
Stéphane Mercieracoustician, Paris
Fred Fradet acoustician, Structures Baschet association
Scientific Committee : Cécile Regnault (sound designer, Professor at ENSA Lyon), Frédéric Fradet (acoustician, Director of Structures sonores Baschet), Gilles Paté (videographer, lecturer at ENSA Versailles), Christian Hugonnet (acoustics engineer, President of La semaine du Son), Laurence Bouckaert, composer, Professor of electroacoustics at the Villeurbanne School of Music,Catherine Guastavino (psychoacoustician, Professor at Mc Gill University, ca), Pascal Amphoux, architect, Franck Faucheux (engineer-architect, Eiffage immobilier),
Catherine Guastavino psychoacousticien, teacher (University Mc Gill, CA)
Nicolas Misdariisresearcher sound designer (Ircam, FR)
Nadine Schützarchitect, sound artist (CH)
Stéphane Mercieracoustician, Paris
Fred Fradet acoustician, Structures Baschet association
Scientific Committee : Cécile Regnault (sound designer, Professor at ENSA Lyon), Frédéric Fradet (acoustician, Director of Structures sonores Baschet), Gilles Paté (videographer, lecturer at ENSA Versailles), Christian Hugonnet (acoustics engineer, President of La semaine du Son), Laurence Bouckaert, composer, Professor of electroacoustics at the Villeurbanne School of Music,Catherine Guastavino (psychoacoustician, Professor at Mc Gill University, ca), Pascal Amphoux, architect, Franck Faucheux (engineer-architect, Eiffage immobilier),
Submissions that do not meet the terms will be disqualified. Although participants retain the copyrights to their projects, submitting projects in the competition allows La Semaine du Son to use the submitted videos at any public presentations (evening, exhibition, publication). The names of the participants will be mentioned for any use of the videos, images and texts, the authors remaining the owners of the intellectual value of their projects.
For practical information contact :
"La Semaine du Son" :
52, rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris
Tél.01.42.78.10.15
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
www.lasemaineduson.org
Other correspondents :
Cécile Regnault, professor (National school of architecture of Lyon); Gilles Paté, associate professor, (National school of architecture of Versailles)
Access to the competition rules :
here
"La Semaine du Son" :
52, rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris
Tél.01.42.78.10.15
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
www.lasemaineduson.org
Other correspondents :
Cécile Regnault, professor (National school of architecture of Lyon); Gilles Paté, associate professor, (National school of architecture of Versailles)
Access to the competition rules :
here
Initiator : UNESCO’s Week of Sound
Institutional Partners
National school of architecture of Lyon + UMR CNRS 5600 EVS University of Lyon, National school of architecture of Versailles, Music School of Villeurbanne, IRCAM
Companies
Real estate Eiffage
Cities-communities
BruitParif Acoucité
Institutional Partners
National school of architecture of Lyon + UMR CNRS 5600 EVS University of Lyon, National school of architecture of Versailles, Music School of Villeurbanne, IRCAM
Companies
Real estate Eiffage
Cities-communities
BruitParif Acoucité
Contact
Cécile Regnault : cecile.regnault@lyon.archi.fr
Gilles Paté : gillespate@gmail.com
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
+33 (0)1 42 78 10 15
Cécile Regnault : cecile.regnault@lyon.archi.fr
Gilles Paté : gillespate@gmail.com
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
+33 (0)1 42 78 10 15
