First 100 days in the sound environment of a new born. With a parliament of crows, bats and birds, family and friends.

Julia Drouhin has been working with sound since 2003. She has investigated the haunted air of ghost towns through phono-memory, conducts voodoo sessions with records made of chocolate or ice, has glittered the catacombs of Paris, curated mini-FM events in both France and Spain, and performed with candyfloss clouds. She completed her PhD on the art of walking and radio art at the University of Paris 8 in 2011. In 2014 she won the Giuseppe Englert Prize for which she produced a musical and environmental “Listening Passage” in the mall of Launceston, Tasmania.

www.tacticalmagick.net/juliadrouhin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKY1N0YL4Uw

For the past 18 months I have spent a lot of my time in forests wondering about the connections between forest and city. Perhaps having been raised in the urban environment, I have found it very difficult to even find where to start my artistic exploration of forests. The stories on audio tapes about forests I had been endlessly listening to as a child seemed completely out of date, and perhaps even out of place. I had to carve my own audio path through the woods. For the past 18 months I have spent a lot of my time in forests looking into the connections between forest and the universe. When walking in a forest at night, you see stars more than trees and trees more than your own feet. The body of work I have been developing throughout the Embedded Residency program with Sound and Music and Forestry Commission England consists of trying to invent new connections between us and the forest, of elaborating situations and fiction over distance and audio communication devices. Other branches of the body of work will include a sound recording of a peri-urban area from the perspective of a fox (made using a home-made GPS collar), an object resulting of the hybridisation of a radiotelescope and a fox ear, a collection of conversations with rangers from the Forestry Commission and astrobiologists about life, time and space !

Website : www.antoinebertin.com

Blog :www.antoinebertin.tumblr.com

The first Campus Paris programme for the Radia network is a cadavre exquis or exquisite corpse inspired by the Surrealist game invented in Paris in 1925. It is similar to  the game Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. This version takes the exquisite body not only as technique but also the inspiration for the piece. Regular Campus Paris contributors have teamed together to produce a series of short audio sequences and will only hear the whole programme at the end when the segments are unfolded and revealed to the listener.

Face & Brain by Mélanie Péclat
Chest & Arms by Joyce Conroy-Aktouche & François Bordonneau
Stomach : Charles-Henri Despeignes.
Legs & Feet by Marine Beccarelli & Lise Come
Skin & Bones by Charlène Nouyoux

Special thanks to Dinah Bird, indispensable oxygen.

Featuring young Kothari, still in utero (it’s a boy!)