//Unheard_Landscapes - listening | resonating | inhabiting 10th FKL/ENP/AAU_CRESSON International Symposium on Soundscape BLOIS | October 27 -30

Unheard landscapes: this metaphor leaves space to imagination, to the un-thought, to the un-known, to past and future, as well as unexplored sound scenarios. It also reaches the field of auditory perception, the acoustic domain. Sound, through auditive qualities, acoustic phenomena, design practices, artistic creations, and listening experiences, offers an inspiring transversal entry onto landscapes and ambiances. Beyond the discussions on “soundscape”, approaching ordinary environments through sounds increases the awareness of our own capacities to feel, while we inhabit and move across different worlds. From an ecological perspective, resonance appears a key word, too. It puts sound and space together. It implies the idea of a plurality of bodies, things and living beings vibrating all together, sharing common contexts of time and space. The act of listening bypasses the passive meaning it usually receives. It contains in itself a completely unexpressed potential, connoted with «project», «pro-action» and «active decision» by individuals. What will be the sounds of the future and the soundscapes in which we will live, or would like to? How can listening practices evolve, how will we listen or how differently could we listen to the world around us, tomorrow? Inhabiting the world brings to us questions about how we want to manage our being in it. How do we want to inhabit the world sonically? How sound and listening do actually affect our way to inhabit it? Have we lost some of our abilities to resonate with the world? What remains to be heard? Where could the practices of listening and attuning take us to?

Stefano ZORZANELLO | IT |

Game

Sound Chocolates is a game explicitly inspired by the Italian tradition of “Baci Perugina”. The idea is to give participants a number of chocolates in wrapping to which is attached a small sound gadget: a dog-training clicker, a miniature trumpet, a mini-monochord. In the wrapping, there is a quote or saying on the theme of playing sound and/or listening, and some simple instructions on how, where, and when to play the gadget that came with the chocolate. This game is designed to create a fun sound creating moment, with the idea of provoking thought on the possibility of sound creation with small objects and of granular multiplication and its resulting impact. It could be played during coffee breaks or any other suitable time. Any reference to the famous Zeno's paradox on the sound of a grain of millet is absolutely not coincidental.

Stefano Zorzanello, sound designer and sound artivist, scholar, instrumentalist, composer, games inventor, has been president of FKL since 2013. He has no account on the facebook and whatsapp.

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