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Tout au long de son dernier semestre d’existence, l’ésad Valenciennes organise un cycle de rencontres radiodiffusé sur la fin de l’école, en partenariat avec *Duuu Radio.

Ces temps se voudront un espace de réflexion qui accompagnera les actions du corps pédagogique et scolaire sur cette fin qui approche, une absence qui se creuse, les luttes passées et un deuil à venir. Il s’agit de créer des moments de partage et de soutien au sein d’une communauté élargie, de faire l’expérience de fermeture.


Comment bien fermer une école d’art #1 : Le grand saut dans le vide
Sophie Coiffier en discussion avec Sébastien Biniek, Florian Bulou Fezard et Elizabeth Hale

Pour tenter d’y voir plus clair dans ce chaos qui n’en est pas un, voir plutôt d’y trouver les mots, nous nous tournons vers Sophie Coiffier pour démarrer ce cycle de rencontre. Dans son dernier roman, L’exercice du skieur, paru chez L’ire des marges en 2024, il est question des récits qui accompagnent nos paysages en transformation. La lecture de ces paysages disparaissants nous sert alors de métaphore puis de tremplin afin de considérer la transmutation du paysage des écoles d’art et de design territoriales.

En direct mardi 21 janvier à 19h sur *Duuu depuis l’ésad Valenciennes

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21.04.16
Acoustic Field Tests #1
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson
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Eugene Binder reading articulation and intelligibility tests inside the artillery shed holding ‘100 untitled works in mill aluminum’ (1982-1986) by Donald Judd, Marfa, Texas.
By Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson

The ultimate fate of sound energy is to be converted into heat. In traveling through the air, sound waves progress by an oscillation or quivering of the air that sets up a friction between neighboring air particles.
Acoustic Field Tests are articulation and intelligibility tests which give an estimation of the intelligibility of speech in a given space. It follows a protocol for an experimental procedure which documents the absorption and reflection of sound by materials.

A series of words, chosen because they contain vowels and consonants that are commonly used in the English language, is to be read in a space. Each word contains a sound chosen to be graded. The observer must recognize the test sound in order to understand the word. The sentences, each including three tests words, are questions that were never meant to be answered, only to be transmitted and witnessed by an observer. [1]
There are two general modes of sound recording: phonographic, preserving perceptual fidelity and telephonic, favoring intelligibility.
In July of 2015 we made recordings of these acoustic field tests for articulation and intelligibility in one of artist Donald Judd’s studios, one of the artillery sheds containing 52 of the 100 works in milled aluminum, and in 15 works in concrete situated on the Chinati land parcel in Marfa, Texas.
Just as Judd was creating specific objects avoiding any superfluous craftsmanship, we aimed to make a recording ‘faithful’ or specific to the sites. The microphone acted as a physically real observer; the recording maintains a representational coherence, albeit non-human. In cinematic terms, the sound is recorded in medium and wide shot, with no close up, maintaining a spacial signature.

This work is ongoing, and new recordings and live performances will be added in the future.
Audio recording and live performance, 2015.

1. Watson, F. R., Acoustics of Buildings. Third Edition, March, 1948.pgs. 100-107.

Une emission proposée par Melissa Dubbin et Aaron S. Davidson

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