2024 Edition

Sound of Terraces


The teams are invited to conceive and draw new forms of terraces conciliating  the sound identity of the place, the acoustics of the habitats and the place to meet and talk in the terrace.

The idea is to make a video (5 min max) image by image starting with views and sound of an existing terrace and exposing the project that enhances it. The choice of the place, an existing public one, is up to the candidates.

Cécile Regnault and Gilles Paté contest organizers

1. Subject


The summarized document about Place au Son 2024 here.




2. Eligibility of applications and teams
The competition is opened to all students enrolled in higher education, 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.




3. Projects
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 terrace found in a specific part  of the place

-The "future" part stages the fiction of the square tomorrow, with drawings of theproject of terrace 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)




4. Evaluation criteria
-Choice and quality of the acoustic caracterisation of a terrace tand its sound effects in the urban space chosen for the project.

-Quality of the video realization

-Acoustic and architectural quality of the design terrace and creativity in its sonic qualities

-Visibility of the transdisciplinary team




5. Calendar
• June 2024 : launching the competition.

• November 30, 2024: 
limit date for team inscriptions

• December 10, 2024 midnight (Paris)  :
limit date for films delivery

• End December 2024 
: jury and decision of winners

•  January 2025 :  
price ceremony during the Week of Sound with the laureates and participants

• Year 2025 
exhibition of winners projects and preparation of prototypes




6. Prizes
1st prize : help to realize scale 1 prototype of the designed object
2nd prize : hep torealize scale 1 prototype of the designed object
3rd prize : audio equipment
4th prize : audio equipment





7. Jury
Michel Risse, composer, Paris

Catherine Guastavino 
psychoacousticien, teacher (University Mc Gill, CA)

Nicolas Misdariis 
researcher sound designer (Ircam, FR)

Nadine Schütz
architect, sound artist (CH)

Stéphane Mercier
acoustician, 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)





8. Terms of submission
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.




9. Contacts
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 




10. Competition partners
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






Contact

Cécile Regnault : cecile.regnault@lyon.archi.fr
Gilles Paté : gillespate@gmail.com

concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
+33 (0)1 42 78 10 15