Le Boucan
Le Boucan is a collective specialized in sound and music design which was founded in 2019 by Ludovic Finck, William Petrini and David Gudenzi. Dedicated to new media exploration and cultural heritage enhancement, Le Boucan works on different creative projects, from immersive sound installations to podcast production, and is also proposing educational workshops encouraging the exploration of sound
Nótt is an immersive, generative installation that transposes the experience of sleep into a real-time audiovisual work, using electroencephalogram data (EEG) captured on a subject over a full night. The project explores the different phases of sleep – from falling asleep to light sleep, then slow wave sleep and finally REM sleep – and transcribes them into sounds and visuals generated from the brain's electrical signals.
Sound textures, erratic instruments and generative visuals takes the viewer, immersed in a monochrome atmosphere and procedural ambient music, on a journey throughout this cycle.
The installation is based on two interconnected creative processes: a scientific approach, where EEG data are processed by algorithms to generate the sound and visual narrative, and an artistic dimension, where human sensitivity and the artists’ interpretations feed the algorithms. Nótt thus offers a unique fusion of data science and art, where the brain's electrical activity becomes artistic material
After dusk, old building walls in Wroclaw's Nadodrze district have been entrusted to artists from all over the world to cover them with strange projections. For one evening, the urban space has been transformed into an art gallery accessible to all. .
Visual artist Dimitri Thouzery has created a mashup of monochrome generative works linked to an audio-reactive system on a specially created composition by Le Boucan, an imaginogenic atmospheric ambient music syncopated by glitches.
Vandale is a podcast that gives a voice to Montpellier's street-artists, offering testimonies and stories about urban art and its significant impact in the city of Montpellier. This project was realized by Le Boucan as part of the podcast competition “C dans le son” organized by Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole and Coodio, under the theme “Les Voix du Territoire” (Voices of the Territory).
Special thanks to artists Salamesh, Coloriage. and Valoushka! To listen to the podcast, click here.
Dessine des Sons (“Draw the Sounds”) is a sound semiotics workshop where children are invited to draw what they hear using pastels. The idea is to associate sound events or audio tracks, with shapes, colors, characters, and landscapes… according to their imagination! The children are then invited to put words to their drawings.
This workshop was conceived and conducted by the collective Le Boucan as part of the “A Hauteur d’Enfant” festival, organized by France Bleu Hérault at the Halle Tropisme. Over a hundred pupils from Montpellier elementary schools participated enthusiastically and showed great creativity during the workshop. Like the children, parents and teachers were delighted!
Many thanks to Claire Moutarde and Anne-Marie Amoros for this event, an opportunity to share and develop awareness to listening and to the world of sound from an early age. We had a really great time!
Thanks to the Soundways app, an AR Audio (Audio Augmented Reality) platform, we've created this “Botaphonic Soundwalk”, a geolocated soundwalk to highlight the different biotopes of the Montpellier Botanical Garden.
Grab your headphones, your smartphone with the app, and let yourself be guided through a unique soundwalk, designed to awaken your senses and transform your stroll into a never-before-seen auditory adventure.
La Palette Phytophonique (Phytophonic Palette) is an interactive sound installation that invites spectators to engage a communication between Plants and Humans.
This work prompts individuals to reflect on the urgent need to protect Nature. The challenging ecological period we are currently facing—driven by excessive technological progress at the expense of biodiversity—forces us to realize that we must “progress” with Nature, not against it.
The sound aesthetics of each plant have been designed according to their physical characteristics, their colors, and the sensations they evoke. In return for a gentle and friendly touch, an impulsive reaction, a phrase, or a word will be offered to you.
Special thanks to @fanny.gillequin for her paintings and scenography.
