LE PAYSAGE SONORE DANS LEQUEL NOUS VIVONS Erasmus Project

Project Title

LE PAYSAGE SONORE DANS LEQUEL NOUS VIVONS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The purpose of this project is to address topics that are rarely covered within the usual training frameworks: the use of electroacoustic and audiovisual techniques for educational purposes, the use of recording tools in musical education, the question of the soundscape we live in and, principally, listening training through familiarisation with new technologies, not to forget the issue of hearing risks.

Five organisations – GMVL (France), TEMPO REALE and Amici Della Musica di Cagliari (Italy), AFEA (Portugal) and EPHMEE (Greece) – are involved in this project. They work in different and complementary areas, such as centres of musical creation, universities and musical education establishments, and regularly provide training courses at conservatories, music schools, publishers and art schools.
The project draws on a large number of learning activities. It is based on exchanges of experience and numerous meetings concerning methods of education and knowledge transfer, all leading to the creation of new documentation using digital resources.

The main aims are to:

• Respond to needs and requests for training on listening and sound production, in an appropriate manner, by providing tools to the widest possible audience at European level, as well as to establish as many links as possible with major educational establishments, in each of the countries concerned, including national education institutions, universities, and organisations providing initial and ongoing training for adults.

• Learn to become aware of sound environments around us, know how to analyse them, and be able to identify their sources; extract constituent elements forming the identity of each soundscape, understand the acoustic signature of a place, a space or a culture. Natural and urban soundscapes are given equal importance.

• Encourage and promote artistic creation through the use of sound materials recorded by numerous participants, and exchange the materials gathered. Find relevant modes of sound creation for the various types of soundscape studied (sound installations, compositions for concerts, radiophonic creations, multimedia productions, online media, etc.).

• Focus on the question of ‘acoustic ecology’; raise our awareness of the idea of “sound pollution” and of the impact of noise on our behaviours. Here, it is important to draw attention to the important issue of hearing risks by promoting knowledge of how the ear works.

• The main objective of this website is to provide the above-mentioned users at European level with a corpus of documentation: visual and sound documents, experience reports, activity reports, artistic productions that can serve as examples and provide a basis for further work, purely educational documentation and specific tools developed within the framework of the partnership. Use of digital tools must be simplified as far as possible in order to make them easy to access for all users.
By providing training tools and a major database of free documentation online, accessibility will be ensured for very different audiences, including teaching staff in particular, as well as young composers and anybody interested in sound.

To achieve these many objectives, a program of activities was set up during the three years of the project:

– Exchanges of experience and skills in the framework of 6 transnational meetings organized in each of the countries concerned plus conferences, symposia, etc.
– Several training sessions both technical and artistic around the issues of listening training, sound recording, sound editing and studio creation, and various teaching practices observed during visits in schools.
– A large number of dissemination activities have been organized at festivals: concerts, sound installations, etc. in partnership with many cultural institutions or dedicated to training (universities, schools of art or music, conservatories, media libraries, museums, naturalist parks) etc.)
– The realization of many “intellectual productions” feeding the website, dealing with both pedagogical and artistic issues and providing diverse and numerous resources.

Results and impacts correspond to expectations, both qualitatively (quality of production and diversity of target audiences) and quantitatively (number of participants in training actions and public events). However, it is in the long term that the benefits of the project can be assessed, since all the activities and productions of the project were put online at the end of the project. These training tools and the free database (audio, visual and written) are available to extremely different audiences, mainly teachers, but also young composers and all sound lovers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 227845 Eur

Project Coordinator

GROUPE MUSIQUES VIVANTES DE LYON & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Amici della Musica di Cagliari
• IONIAN UNIVERSITY
• Centro di ricerca, produzione e didattica musicale Tempo Reale
• A.F.E.A. – Associação de Fomento do Ensino Artístico