Sobralasolas ! - a radiopera :(Edit)

avec / with : episode 1 (2007/2009) : Caroline Bouissou, DinahBird, Björn Eriksson, Jérôme Joy, Kaffe Matthews, Gregory Whitehead episode 2 (2010) : Caroline Bouissou, DinahBird, Björn Eriksson, Emmanuelle Gibello, Jérôme Joy, Kaffe Matthews episode 3 (2012) : Caroline Bouissou, Björn Eriksson, Emmanuelle Gibello, Jérôme Joy & guests (Nathalie Fougeras, Éric Létourneau) WWW site : : http://sobralasolas.org/ Video document : Sobralasolas ! ep.3 GRIM Marseille 2012 SOBRALASOLAS ! est un radiopéra conçu comme une collection d'épisodes acousmatiques, entre concert musical, œuvre radiophonée et dispositif en réseau. Depuis 2007 il rassemble un groupe d'artistes sonores et de musiciens au travers de protocoles en réseau donnant lieu à des performances. Avec : Caroline Bouissou (caroline), DinahBird (bird), Björn Eriksson (miulew), Emmanuelle Gibello (miss purple), Jérôme Joy (jerome), Kaffe Matthews (mlle jaune), and Gregory Whitehead (teteblanche). SOBRALASOLAS ! is a radio opera for live, streamed and recorded sounds. This project began in 2007 and gathers a international group of sound artists who through network collaboration and performances develops a series of acousmatic episodes. With : Caroline Bouissou (caroline), DinahBird (bird), Björn Eriksson (miulew), Emmanuelle Gibello (miss purple), Jérôme Joy (jerome), Kaffe Matthews (mlle jaune), and Gregory Whitehead (teteblanche), and, in 2012, with two guests, Nathalie Fougeras and Éric Létourneau. SOBRALASOLAS! is a radio opera for live, streamed and recorded sounds. This project, which begun in 2007, gathers a group of sound artistswho through network collaboration and performances are in the process of developing a series of acousmatic episodes. Sobralasolas! does not have preestablished scenario, nor is there a story to be told. It intercuts collected and improvised sounds with the aim of recreating a new listening & soniferous environment that is both fictional and real, time-specific and site-specific. This workprocess amplifies & probes the forgotten details of our everyday lives, mishaps, adventures, narratives and imagined soundscapes. The group of artists are currently working and developing different methods of using remote sound recording and collection via streaming using a remote platform of sound contributions, open microphones (or ‘webmikes’, a concept first used in the Locustream project by Locus Sonus) and file exchanges. Future episodes will explore various combinations of remote protocols using composition, improvisation, and live, remote and local performances, performed by the six participants (mike-heads) who, whether physically present or not, feed off one another’s audio environment and sonic reactions. SOBRALASOLAS! is an expression from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." (Lily Tomlin) "I believe that ghosts are part of the future." (Jacques Derrida) "Any social state requires fictions." (Paul Valéry) Realisations : • Sobralasolas ! ep. 1 (2007/2009) •• Premiered at SonoR Festival, Lieu Unique, Nantes (F), Thursday March 29, 2007. (performed by Jérôme Joy, 80mn version) •• August 2007 : episode 1, Das Kleines Field Recording Festival, Berlin (G). (proposed by Björn Eriksson, and broadcasted in Second Life, Odyssey Island, 80mn version) http://odysseysounds.blogspot.com/ •• October 2007 : episode 1, Festival Radiophonic Brussels (B), Chapelle des Brigittines. (performed and live spatialized by Jérôme Joy, and aired on Silence Radio, 60mn version) •• February 2008 : AV Festival Abroad Cast, Newcastle (UK). (aired by Dinahbird, short 30mn version) •• May 2008 : episode 1, performed and live spatialized by Jérôme Joy, Festival Indisciplines Sonores, Nice (F). •• July 2008 : episode 1, radio program, Festival EXPO, Brighton (UK). •• December 2008 : episode 1, radio program, FreeRadioSAIC, Chicago (USA). •• January 2009 : episode 1 (final version), performed and live spatialized by Jérôme Joy, une Journée Sonore, Médiathèque de Mouans-Sartoux (F). •• September 2009 : episode 1, cd release, Ohm Avatar Québec. • Sobralasolas ! ep. 2 (2010) •• Premiered at Art's Birthday, Pefferberg Haus 13 Berlin (G), Sunday, January, 17, 2010. (Commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin) - Live broadcast simultaneously on DKR and EBU / Ars Acustica satellite for European radios. •• January 2010 (the 22nd) : episode 2, broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin (Klangkunst program by Marcus Gammel) •• Dec. 2010 : episode 2 (excerpt), cd release, Art's Birthday 2005-2010, Ars Acustica. • Sobralasolas ! ep. 3 (2012) •• Premiered at Sons de Plateaux, GRIM, Marseille France, June, 22, 2012 Episode 3 (2012) - Mirror Works

Episode 1 (2007/2009) Episode 2 (2010)

Sobralasolas ! is produced in collaboration with Locus Sonus http://locusonus.org/ , The Thing NYC, nujus.net, creacast.com, and Radiowne.org.

Graphic design : Caroline Bouissou