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Soundwalk Collective is back in the studio and in the next phase of creating Medea, the new sonic work based on this summer’s recording voyage around the Black Sea. The Collective is in the process performing a series of live sessions using the raw recordings of voices, distant melodies, and distorted memories. Here is the first excerpt, untouched and straight to tape! Photo by Spleen.
Au marché de Belleville, les bananes font du slam et empruntent la voix de Florence Loiret-Caille pour entrainer les jeunes hommes à la découverte de ce quartier métissé…
Emmanuel Leconte s’est pris au jeu ! Emmanuel est acteur (The Tudors, La Ravisseuse, Monsieur Max…) et réalisateur. Il vient de tourner avec Franck Guérin son premier documentaire pour la télévision française (Le Big Bang, mes ancêtres et moi, diffusé sur la chaîne Arte le 7 décembre 2009 à 20h45).
Réalisé par Sarah Jonathan.
Avec l’aimable autorisation de Soundwalk
Narré par Florence Loiret-Caille
Musique: Spleen
Comme le Soundwalk St. Germain des Prés, le Soundwalk Belleville est maintenant disponible sur l’iPhone !
Installez l’appli iPhone Soundwalk Belleville ici ou visitez l’AppStore d’Apple pour voir les autres applications iPhone de Soundwalk.
“On Bastille Day (France’s remembrance of the 1789 Revolution) I took my bike to Belleville to explore this area of Paris, famous for its social uprisings in the 19th century, while listening to Soundwalk’s audio tour of the neighborhood.
Despite its gentrification, Belleville still has a melting-pot feel as a result of the cultures from North African and Chinese immigrants. Within a few blocks, I came across all 3 monotheist religions and a dozen cultures. Mosques and Muslim bookshops a few steps from kosher butcher shops and Sepharadic restaurants, a Pakistanese community church faces Paris’ cheapest greenmarket, street artists studios are next to Chinese dumpling canteens… my kind of revolution.”
-Victoria Jonathan (Paris, France)
Images: garbage can with Obama portrait in front of street artist Pedro‘s studio, hidden courtyards where workers used to live, Boulevard de Belleville, Sepharadic café where old men drink mint tea and play cards, Edith Piaf’s hangout Café Folies, Café Charbon- where Belleville Soundwalk begins- and more.
