Epicentre, territory of listening (rue Saint-Gervais, 23140 Jarnages, Creuse) welcomes from 27 to 30 June, the Sonaturadays 2024, Association meetings Sonatura Free and open to the public.

Sonatura is a Francophone audio-naturalist collective.

Sonatura is a non-profit association, founded in 2004 by Fernand Deroussen, whose vocation is to discover the sounds of nature. For this it creates and broadcasts the first sound review entirely devoted to the various audible aspects of sounds in nature, whether it be the singing of animals, the natural ambient noises or the soundscapes of the earth. (https://sonatura.bandcamp.com)

The idea of the band is simple: to give time to listen to the discovery of "pieces of nature" – just as there are pieces of music – by those who record them.

You can register: https://forms.gle/uijWBScn5BZYXJYK7

PROGRAMME
Thursday, 27 June 2024
14h00 (from) – Reception of participants and installation of different spaces, technical settings.
6 p.m. - Dinner break
8 p.m. – First indoor listening (in progress)

Friday, 28 June 2024
10h00 - Workshop: Making a pair of micros on perch for pedagogy (by Lê Quan Ninh)
11:00 – Listening (in progress) / Individual workshops
12:30 – Shared meal
14h00 – Workshop: Manufacture of a hydrophone (by Grégoire Chauvot and Mélia Roger)
3:00 pm – Listen: Mélia Roger: Phonocene tendre (15 min), Lê Quan Ninh: Listening sediments (22 min), Jean-Christophe Pratt: Landes pond (10 min)
16:30 – Workshop: Audio processing with Izotope RX (by Grégoire Chauvot and Olivier Pichard)
18:00 – Listening (in progress) / Individual workshops
19:00 – Dinner
8:30 p.m. – Film: « Free water » presented by Jean-Claude Lecoeur (1h30)

Saturday, 29 June 2024
05.00 - Landes Pond recordings (depending on weather)
08:00 – Individual workshops (drying, assembly, etc.)
09:00 – Workshop: Automatic identification of bird songs using a BirdNET model in real time with the PUC Birdweather, a Raspberry Pi or delayed from its computer sound library (by Olivier Pichard)
10.30 a.m. – General Assembly of the association SONATURA
12:30 – Shared meal
14:00 – Listen: Carte blanche to the members of the association
16:00 – Listen: 3D broadcast by Pascal Dhuicq
17.30 - Music analysis of bird songs (by Jean-Claude Gallard)
19:00 – Meals
8 p.m. – Workshop : Les « sound boxes » – design and listen to recordings using this method.
9:30 p.m. – Listen / Film (current program)

Sunday, 30 June 2024
05.00 - Landes Pond recordings (depending on weather)
08:00 – Individual workshops (drying, assembly, etc.)
10:00 a.m. – Workshop: Mounting its « streambox » with a Raspberry Pi (by Lê Quan Ninh)
11:00 – Listening (current program)
12:00 – Meals in common
14h00 – Listen: Fernand Deroussen: Audio-naturalist stories (1h30)
16.00 - Starting pot
5 p.m. - End of Sonaturadays 2024

Also during these meetings, sales of previous sound reviews the association in the form of a CD.
Sale and exchange of used equipment.

The general meeting shall be open to members who are current members of their membership. There is still time to join or re-join the association by following this link: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/sonatura/adhesions/adhesion-annual-2024

Meals and accommodation are the responsibility of participants.
A hotel and restaurant: Alzire is present in Jarnages as well as a small grocery store.
It is also possible to find food in Gouzon (13 km) or Guéret (20 km)

We hope many of you will come to these meetings.