Creation and recording residency.
To draw up a sound portrait of a territory, you need to collect its memories, meet its musicians and inhabitants, and capture its ambiences. Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet and Sébastien Robert listened to the stories, the repertoires and the sounds of Aubrac, and in May 2023, they carried out this investigative work to give birth to a creation halfway between improvised music and radio documentary. In this contemporary reinterpretation of Aubrac's heritage, the two artists draw on the stories they have collected to create a narrative based on archival sounds from the 1960s, when the CNRS began collecting data to study the lives, customs and traditions of the breeders in this region of the Massif Central.
In the continuity of projects developed by the two artists linked to the oral and cultural heritage of certain regions or groups of people, La Trahison raises the question of transmission. How to deal artistically with the possible disappearance of a craft, an artistic practice, a know-how, a repertoire. By manipulating raw materials, the intention of the two artists is to go beyond simple documentation and move towards more contemporary forms that pay tribute to this intangible heritage. The experimental reinterpretation they propose, like traditional repertoires in constant motion, attempts to open up new artistic perspectives to a whole range of Aubracois sounds, melodies and songs.
Financial support
DRAC Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes ; Fond de soutien à la création artistique numérique Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [SCAN] ; Creative Industries Fund NL ; Département de la Lozère
Artistic support
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale de Marseille ; Setereolux
Partnerships
C.M.T.R.A - Centre des Musiques Traditionnelles Rhône Alpes ; l'A.M.T.A - Agence des Musiques des Territoires d'Auvergne ; le Mucem - Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée ; l'Iméra - Institut d'études avancées (IEA) d'Aix-Marseille Université
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet
Sound artist
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet (1982 - Chambray-les-Tours, France) is a sound artist. At the crossroads of several artistic fields, his practice revolves around musical composition and sound creation in all its forms: radio objects, documentaries, installations. His work focuses on questions of memory and intangible heritage, through the recycling and processing of sound, and the use of archives, testimonies and in situ sound recordings. He also draws on the techniques of "sound collage" and the precepts of "musique concrète" in his compositional work. His appetite for more experimental forms linked to new technologies has led him to develop collaborative projects with artists from a wide range of backgrounds.
Sébastien Robert
Sound artist
Sébastien Robert (1993 - Nantes, France) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher developing a practice at the intersection of visual and sound arts, technology, science and ethnography. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle,You're no Bird of Paradise, through which he studies sound rituals and endangered indigenous cosmologies. Rather than simply documenting them, Sébastien's aim is to translate these intangible resources into tangible, lasting works of art, using materials that echo the traditions of the communities he encounters and the geospecificities of the territories he explores.
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet
Sébastien Robert
sound artists