Cap Sonic/le manège.mons and City Sonic/ Transcultures propose together two days of presentations/debates/round tables with musicians, curators, sound engineers on various issues of sound ecology and sound art today.

Featuring :

Antoine Maisonhaute (Musiques Nouvelles) – round table on sound and contemporary music

Philippe Franck (director City Sonic and co-curator of Cap Sonic) and Anne-Laure Chamboisier (City Sonic guest curator) will present some of the festival and sound art issues followed by a guided visit of the City Sonic sound itinerary

Daniel Léon (sound engineer, teacher at INSAS) lecture on sound volume excesses today

Jean-Paul Dessy (le manège.mons/ Musiques Nouvelles) presentation of his personal open vision of “contemporary music”

Gilles Malatray (musician, sound designer) with a workshop on sound ecology to raise awareness of hearing and its urban environment

Impala Utopia (young multimedia-design-sound artists) present Bumpers their mobile DJing performance in the city and their interdisciplinary site specific approach

Jacques Rémus (sound artist & inventor) on his installation Le Carillon n°3  (shown on the Grand’Place) and his vision of sound art.

And surprises !

For the Bumpers presentation in Mons, the Impala Utopia young interdisciplinary artists  (for Mons, Jérémie Boyard/DJ B Side, Colin Ponthot/MC Mute, Mathieu Schmidlin/DJ multicolor) build a DJ customized delivery tricycle which will stop in various locations (surprise!) of the city inviting local DJs and musicians to mix and to jam with the friendly crazy Impala Utopian audio pirates.

Presented by Cap Sonic and City Sonic Production: Impala Utopia, Transcultures/City Sonic

Jacques Rémus (Fr): Carillon n°3
Grand’ Place

40 huge tubes are hit or smothered by electro mechanical systems play a bell sound controlled by a computer. The cylinders hanging above the audience and protected by small umbrellas, play pre recorded scores (such as the traditional Mons song of the Doudou); they can also react to interactive systems thanks to a music camera invented by Jacques Rémus, who is an important figure in the French and international sound art world.