“You can survey the Camargue, camera in hand or sketchbook in hand. Here, the challenge was not to produce finished works, but to dare to listen and record: to rub up against the hazards of the terrain, to decipher the sound expression of the elements, to approach living things with delicacy… Through these sound sketches, witnesses of a stage in a long-term journey, the fine attention, the authorial sensitivity and the commitment of the participants are already expressed.”
Marc Namblard, director of the “Recording the Landscape” workshop
Since graduating from art school, Marc Namblard has lived and worked in Lorraine. His numerous projects (for publishing, museography, entertainment, television, film, etc.) and collaborations are marked by a dual approach, both naturalistic and artistic, rational and intuitive. In his work, his demand for sound writing competes with the rigor of naturalistic observation.
In their documentary film L’esprit des lieux (Ana Films/Les films de la pluie), which won a SCAM star in 2019, directors Stéphane Manchematin and Serge Steyer show him at work in the field and in the studio.
// Piémanson beach, April morning (6’05)
Yoana Urruzola – Fr
“Joining a territory, discovering it as best you can, surveying it, looking at it, listening to it. Put your microphones down somewhere, and if possible find a place that doesn’t disturb too much (but you’re not invisible). Accept to lose yourself in the time of listening and welcoming what may (or may not) happen. Don’t move too much. Gradually disappear a little. Wait, forget that you’re waiting, move on, melt away. Then, back at the studio, sketch out a composition in an attempt to capture this experience.
experience.
Born in 1977, I live and work in Seine-Saint-Denis. As a filmmaker and photographer, I’ve been working in the field of social work for the past ten years.
//Fondus Camarguais (5′)
Adrien Vullo – Fr
“In this composition, I sought to link the recordings through sound movements. Although difficult to mix, air backgrounds became essential to the characterization of the takes. Omnipresent and continuous, they form the major part of the soundscape. Listening reveals a world where sound waves travel according to the density of the air, bouncing off buildings, birds, dust, creating an uninterrupted sound traffic.”
Born in the mining basin in the early 1990s, I became interested in sound environments during my studies in civil engineering. In 2016, I founded ESITU Records and launched the Fragments project, in situ sound installations at the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) and the Palais Coudenberg (Brussels). I collaborate with the Centre Pompidou on multidisciplinary creations, including music for the work of Giuseppe Penone and the video series Pionniers, pionnières. In 2024, I co-directed a documentary-fiction series on the Seine with the Maison d’Architecture de Normandie. I’m curator and resident DJ on two independent radio stations exploring fiction, photography
photography and music.
//Change of state (4’42)
Martin Sadoux – Fr
“Get out of the water, leave the white bubbling and perceive the first songs in the dunes, go into the hedges to listen to the rustling and the soloists, then end up in the conglomerates of nocturnal fervor.”
I’m a sound recordist for documentary and fiction films. Passionate about nature, I’m now interested in audio-naturalism and field recording.
//Le vent murmure au creux de l’eau (5’08)
Ingrid Obled – Fr
“Based on raw sound recordings, very close to the source, and with the constraint of 4 hours of editing, I made landscapes co-exist in different places: aerial landscapes and underwater landscapes. Very different materials, yet echoing each other in their textures, as a reminder that what seems different to our eyes is not necessarily so to our ears (and vice versa), and that in everything there is totality.”
After training in double bass and electroacoustic composition until 2005, I experimented with sound and music in a variety of forms for contemporary art and performance… I like to open up parallel spaces where landmarks of temporality and place are erased to make way for an intimate, poetic universe, a communion out of time. I won the Musica Viva international composition competition in 2006. My piece Si je regarde is performed at the Franco-Portuguese Institute in Lisbon and released on the Miso Record label. In 2017, I created a solo for nyckelharpa (keyboard violin), double bass and live looping. Its 3rd part, Le chant des baleines stellaires, has been touring for over two years in France, Switzerland and Belgium… and at the cinema as the 1st part of the film Les gardiennes de la planète. An album will be released at the end of May 2025 by Art Mélodies.
