ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ 30/11/22 στις 13.30, Στούντιο (310)
“Sound design anthropology and ecosound”
“Acoustic ontology” characterizes the relationship we have with the world of sound, our world of sound being in the forefront, and that of the human tribe, the human community, being in the background. The word “ecosound”, a neologism composed of the contraction of two terms “ecology” and “sound”, refers to this paradigm. Since Schafer and his insights on the question of ecology, sound embraces the acoustic environment, through its notion of “amenity” (tuning), as an entire dimension in its own right and within which rethinking structurally the society can/must be done in relation to such acoustic reality. This acoustic reality constitutes a form of socio-economic engagement, with respect to health, norms and standards, and the environment, three areas of focus in design research.
The role of sound design and its actors is therefore to monitor this question of a new “sound order”, which we have defined as “ecosonic” and within which, our daily life is organized in different living spaces, in accordance with existing norms and standards and structural frameworks, as well as others yet to be established.
In anthropological terms, the architectural paradigm of harmonizing the living space and the environment is also in the ecological dynamics of the human project of “living together” where the living environment leads to finding the appropriate tools to produce and (to) reproduce, even limit the perimeter of our activities. The containment of sound is our destiny.
Franck Pecquet, Maître de conférences "Musique, Musicologie, Esthétique", University Paris I, Pantheon, Sorbonnes