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A l'abri du monde

by Delphine Dora

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Recorded, composed and played by Delphine Dora between 2019 and 2021.
Vocals, prepared piano, piano, synth, keyboards, objects, field recordings – Delphine Dora

"A l'abri du monde was made from a series of recordings made between 2019 and 2021 at the Val d'Allier Ecopole (Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne). Located on the edge of a large river, the 140-hectare site, at the gateway to the Clermont-Ferrand agglomeration (center of France) once dedicated to the extraction of aggregates (sand and gravel), has recently undergone an ecological rehabilitation. The quarries have been replaced by two large ponds which now host numerous species of migratory birds and a rich biodiversity. The surroundings of this location are relatively urbanized and a sand quarry is still in operation a short distance from the large pond. It is now primarily a place for local residents to walk and for birdwatchers to observe.

This piece reflects my interest in the specificity of a site, the sounds of the environment, the spaces between city and nature, the disappearance of certain birds species. I drew from this astonishing place to feed my sound imagination and redeploy a personal cartography.

My first motivation was to become more aware of my sound environment, creating a subjective interpretation of the place through a poetic and subjective listening. The real issues of this landscape have a double interest, as it presents a successful hybridization between nature and culture. A hybrid place: on the one hand, a natural site favorable for
contemplation, an experimental space with ecological vocation (bird observatory, place of fishing and organic market gardening), created in response to the environmental mutations in progress (degradation and climate change); on the other hand, an extremely sensitive site threatened by the noise nuisances related to road traffic, perceptible noises of the quarry of extraction, human and industrial activities in the vicinity (companies, stores). It is from the richness of the sound complexity of this place, from multiple sound recordings at different places of the landscape, from a careful listening to the details of the environment and from interaction with the sound matter of the place, that each sound was captured in a haphazard way or carefully selected for its suggestive potential, arranged later - revealing delicate complexities.

I sought to interrogate the spaces between sound and silence, making one feel that sense of quietude, away from urban agitation and that silence threatened by human activity. The atmosphere of this place also translated a striking social and political off-field: the lightness of certain recorded words or scenes of life could contrast with certain political demonstrations or social events that took place during the period of the recording.

Although the Anthropocene and the effects of human activities on animal species and the landscape, and more generally on the relationship between humans and non-humans was an important preoccupation, my primary interest was to question the way in which the sounds we perceive convey a subjective reality and can become inscribed in the memory and imagination of the listener, reconnecting with the sensitive experience, through an interaction between the "active" listening of a place and the creative voice it brings. I have thus musicalized the sound material by adding voices, acoustic instruments (piano, prepared piano) and electronic instruments (analog synthesizer, keyboard, electronic sounds...), blurring the boundaries between instrumentation and field recordings, in order to restore the environment crossed, to create an in-between, a sound space between real/imaginary, concrete/abstract reality, visible/invisible."

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released February 4, 2022

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