Ars Musica - Urban Nature

Ars Musica 2024's biennial Urban Nature looks at nature, as well as the city, as a major inspiration of contemporary musical creation. The biennial introduces us to different sound spaces that are the main themes of this new festival edition.

In his book Le Paysage sonore, composer and musicologist R. Murray Schafer develops a concept of the landscape as a kind of natural music conservatory. The sound installations by visual artists and musicians Adrien Degioanni, Basile Richon and Pédro Riofrio each refer to this concept in their own way. In Degioanni's work, moments of silence are considered a form of resistance to contemporary "noise". Richon's works seek to capture the “bygone” tides of the Breton coast in music. And Riofrio departs from the sounds of the Ecuadorian Amazon forest to form a veritable orchestra with them. Recording and preserving sounds of nature, turns music into a sound space that invents and unfolds itself.