{"id":420,"date":"2025-05-27T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/soundproject\/sounding-desert-utopias-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:27:24","slug":"sounding-desert-utopias","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/projects\/sounding-desert-utopias\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounding Desert Utopias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-yju6-bc2f4f247db8edf4d4bb2b7f22a7f0a4\">\n.flex_column.av-yju6-bc2f4f247db8edf4d4bb2b7f22a7f0a4{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-yju6-bc2f4f247db8edf4d4bb2b7f22a7f0a4 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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Libyque sur la plateforme de partage de sons Freesound.org. Les fichiers originaux vont d\u2019enregistrements de bord de mer \u00e0 des enregistrements de voix en passant par des \u00e9chantillons de batterie, des fragments de musique, et plus encore. \u00c0 travers les correspondances avec les personnes qui ont t\u00e9l\u00e9charg\u00e9 les sons en ligne, j\u2019ai appris que les fichiers audio viennent de partout dans le monde\u00a0: Thunder Bay, Ciudad del Este, Pretoria, New York, Zagreb, etc. La mani\u00e8re par laquelle ces fichiers ont fini par \u00eatre g\u00e9olocalis\u00e9s dans le milieu du d\u00e9sert reste obscure.<\/p>\n<p>Dans <em>Sounding Desert Utopias, <\/em>j\u2019emploie des approches multiples pour travailler avec le son, en utilisant des concepts provenant de la recherche historique et de la r\u00e9flexion critique men\u00e9es pour guider les processus techniques. Par exemple, je mobilise pour m\u2019inspirer des extraits de r\u00e9cits de voyage des explorateurs\/exploratrices du d\u00e9sert du d\u00e9but du XXe si\u00e8cle qui mettent en \u00e9vidence la d\u00e9sorientation, les temp\u00eates de sable et les dunes mouvantes rencontr\u00e9es lors de la recherche d&rsquo;oasis. Dans la composition, je m\u2019inspire de ces ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes pour d\u00e9former les sons, les rendant souvent m\u00e9connaissables en appliquant de synth\u00e8se granulaire et de transformations topologiques \u00e0 des fichiers audio g\u00e9olocalis\u00e9s. J\u2019utilise mes propres instruments d&rsquo;\u00e9chantillonnage con\u00e7us sur mesure avec SuperCollider. Ainsi, des fragments de son, comme des grains de sable de tailles, de vitesses et de trajectoires diff\u00e9rentes, remod\u00e8lent continuellement l&rsquo;espace sonore.<\/p>\n<p>Tout au long de l\u2019\u0153uvre, je joue avec des tensions multiples et conflictuelles g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9es par l\u2019id\u00e9e d\u2019utopia (pour qui et \u00e0 quel prix?). Ces tensions sont convi\u00e9es sonorement \u00e0 travers des contrastes entre des passages sonores accueillants et d\u2019autres, abrasifs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sounding Desert Utopias <\/em>s&rsquo;appuie sur des id\u00e9es et des processus issus de mon \u0153uvre pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente <a href=\"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/projects\/nowhere-in-the-desert\/\"><em>Nowhere in the Desert <\/em><\/a>(2017).<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oboro.net\/exhibition\/oboroavatar-sounding-desert-utopias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OBORO@Avatar 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ce projet a \u00e9t\u00e9 subventionn\u00e9 par le Conseil des Arts du Canada. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-178\" src=\"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CCA_RGB_black_e-300x55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CCA_RGB_black_e-300x55.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CCA_RGB_black_e.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/audiomack.com\/embed\/album\/samuelthulin\/sounding-desert-utopia-stereo-excerpts?background=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1bp52-3b1987fa852cc1e3a51578b523c4160c\">\n.flex_column.av-1bp52-3b1987fa852cc1e3a51578b523c4160c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1bp52-3b1987fa852cc1e3a51578b523c4160c av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1bp52-b0c62e2e05b115747c81b26984d74351\">\n.flex_column.av-1bp52-b0c62e2e05b115747c81b26984d74351{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1bp52-b0c62e2e05b115747c81b26984d74351 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1bp52-3b1987fa852cc1e3a51578b523c4160c\">\n.flex_column.av-1bp52-3b1987fa852cc1e3a51578b523c4160c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1bp52-3b1987fa852cc1e3a51578b523c4160c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-ka8p0uih-f0b92694778e3a2b6d47d0eced626c9c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Ann\u00e9e:<\/strong> 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>R\u00f4le:<\/strong> Artiste\/Compositeur<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Une installation audio immersive sur l\u2019exploration du d\u00e9sert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[26,22,19],"class_list":["post-420","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-conception-sonore","portfolio_entries-featured-fr","portfolio_entries-installation-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/420\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelthulin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}