The SONCITIES research team and curator Eric de Visscher will co-host a seminar and workshop at Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris on the theme ‘From the Museum to the City: Listening to Urban Architecture’.

This event forms part of Eric de Visscher’s critical residency at Cité de l’architecture, Musée Polyphonique.

This instalment of Musée Polyphonique will explore sonic materialities and energies in connection to the materialities of the museum (its works, its architectural structure, its mediation devices), and it will welcome new voices whose multiplicity refers to the polyphony of audiences, those of the plural, diverse and inclusive city.

PART 1

10.00-12.30 Seminar. Listening to the City: Sonic Urbanism at the Museum

10.00-10.15 Introductory remarks by Eric de Visscher and Gascia Ouzounian

10.15 - 11:15 Panel 1

• Stéphane Roux & Marie-Agnès Blond: 'La Cité à l’échelle du sonore'

• Nathan Belval - 'L'écriture interstitielle: une méthode de composition pour le paysage?'

• Sven Anderson - 'Collaborative Efforts to Reshape the City Through Sound'

11.30-12.30 Panel 2

• Ruth Bernatek - 'Sonic accumulations: repositioning sound in archival culture'

• Sarah Lappin - 'Sounding a new heritage future'

• Robin Wilson - 'Chantiers: Between Sound and Image'

12.30-13.00 Response by John Bingham-Hall and additional discussion/Q&A

PART 2

2-5 p.m. WORKSHOP. Intramuros: Listening to the audible and the inaudible

This workshop explores the polyphony of the museum and the urban environment; its various layers, expressions, voices, agents, and narratives. Participants will be introduced to three different modes of ‘critical listening’ by using a range of sonic devices and methods including field recorders, electromagnetic sensors, and echolocation. Listening critically to the museum and the city draws attention to how sound is relational, how it responds to and moves between physical boundaries, and how it can reconfigure what is inside and outside a space.

This workshop is designed by members of the SONCITIES research team: Roo Bernatek, Matilde Meireles, and Christabel Stirling.

Closing remarks: John Bignham-Hall

REGISTRATION: You can register for the morning seminar here and the afternoon workshop here. Please note you must register for both events if you wish to attend both.

You can find the full programme for Musée Polyphonique here.