Escapad (Fr)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Lectures urbaines (creation)

20 places and 20 texts from a UCL writing workshop will lead you to discover the city of Louvain-La-Neuve. A poetic wandering is interspersed with a selection of sound objects from fifteen years of City Sonic Festival. This project started in 2017 with the UCLouvain Culture is an experiment on sound paths. This year it takes a new form by experimenting the Escapad application.

Texts: Belinda Cannone, Myriam Delmotte, Maxime Deblander, Perrine Estienne, Benedict Lambert, Romuald La Morte, Camille Dasseleer.
Framing writing workshops: Belinda Cannone, Myriam Delmotte.
Reading/Interpretation: Benjamin Chaval & Laurie Bellanca.
Sound creation: aMute, Christophe Bailleau, Stephan Dunkelman, Gilles Malatray, Paradise Now, Franck Soudan…
Production: Transcultures and the partnership of the non-profit organization Lettres en voix and UCLouvain Culture. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The Lectures Urbaines is based on the RHYZOmatics geolocalised project conceived in 2017 by the art2.network collective, developed by the artist-coder Franck Soudan as the result of a partnership between Transcultures, UCLouvain Culture (Frédéric Blondeau) and the non-profit organization Lettres en voix. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (digital arts).

Escapad (application)

This project is part of the Sonic Walks and will take place in the application for smartphone and tablet Escapade (to download and install on your mobile).

Escapad

Escapad is a mobile application offering innovative experiences of tourist and cultural discoveries around the world. All guides are created and published only by professionals and experts from the sectors of Culture and Tourism.

Escapad has a double ambition:

Open access to culture to as many people as possible

The Escapad guides, which are mainly intended to enrich the physical visit of a place or an exhibition, can also serve as virtual exhibition spaces for people who are geographically distant or unfamiliar with cultural places or reluctant to attend there.

Save time planning a trip

The Escapad guides have a theme that allows you to visit a city, a place, under this prism. Preparing a trip around your interests is easier than ever and saves precious time: no more endless evenings between paper guides, websites and Google Maps!

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