Lumière Sonore

             (A participant 'records' the light )

An introduction to the telephone pick-up with which participants are able to record electromagnetic waves produced by objects. These recordings are then manipulated using a simple open source programme, the Flavitron, originally designed by French composer and engineer François Giraudon. The programme initiates the user to the principles of electroacoustic music (delay, loop, repetition, reverse )  The workshop ends with a collective improvisation using pickups, contact microphones and Flavitrons.

Participants are encouraged to think about sound as electricity, as a vibration, as a signal, and as a wave that can be transformed into an element of a musical composition. Since the Flavitron’s creation in June 2006 DinahBird and Jean-Phillipe Renoult have led workshops in France, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland and Canada with a wide variety of different publics : children, adults (some of whom had physical or mental disabilties and mental health problems), professional musicians and art students

You can download more information on this workshop and hear some improvisation examples here.

Please feel free to download and use the raw audio data