Sunbathed ears

This summer, Bétonsalon is offering an artistic, sporting and festive programme based around listening, with sound walks, radio workshops, performances, karate sessions, concerts and an environmental concert. This programme of sound arts offers sensitive experiences that appeal to the whole body, not just the sense of hearing. Through collective experiences such as urban walks guided by listening, the practice of a martial art, sound experiments ranging from the scale of crumpled paper to that of a river, this programme will invite us to explore our capacities for attention, to exercise our listening skills and to experience altered states of consciousness. Through a wide range of practices, we’ll be able to become more aware and less selective, turning our attention to the slightest sounds, to sound fluctuations, attentive to the most inarticulate noises that will be heard in the midst of vast soundscapes. These collective practices will enable us to connect with our own inner state, with others and with the environment. Bétonsalon opens up a time when the whole body will be mobilised, and when, little by little, the focus of our eyes and ears will fade away to make way for other perceptions; it opens up a space where we can let our ears hang out in the sun.

Partners :
With the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France - Ministère de la Culture