DESIGN
Eddie Ladoire
sound and music creations
Eddie Ladoire
PRODUCTION and post-production
Eddie Ladoire
ChÂteau de versailles
Production and broadcasting of an immersive sound scenography in spatialized sound in the Galerie des Carrosses, for the European Heritage Days 2024.
Original sound creations presented in the form of an immersive sound installation - Multipoint spatialized broadcasting - Duration of experience: 30 minutes - Looped broadcasting.
ABOUT US
To mark the 41st European Heritage Days, the Château de Versailles opened its Galerie des Carrosses to the public free of charge, with a special program of events. Over the course of the weekend, the courtyard of the Grande Ecurie was the setting for a series of presentations on the architecture and theme of the exhibition Cheval en majesté, au cœur d'une civilisation (Horse in Majesty, at the heart of a civilization). In the Galerie des Carrosses, mediations were accompanied by a sound scenography. The volume of the installation was adjusted to reconcile the quality of sound immersion with the possibility of offering human mediation.
The Versailles carriage collection does not include travel vehicles, but only large ceremonial sedans. Each carriage tells the story of a page in French history, through a dynastic or political event (Napoleon Bonaparte's wedding; Napoleon I's coronation as First Consul in 1804; the Duc de Bordeaux's christening; Charles X's coronation; Louis XVIII's funeral...).
Sound production, in the form of cinema for the ear, brought these events to life, animating the majestic carriages and the collection of sedan chairs and sleighs.
Through the mixing and spatialization of selected concrete sounds, evocative of the processions that brought together some forty carriages and hundreds of horses (the sound of wheels, metal harnesses and bits, horses' breaths and neighs, the sound of hooves on cobblestones, the cheers of the crowd), visitors are given the impression of being accompanied by the movement of the carriages, the sounds of the processions and the horses, plunged into the heart of the events and the action. The original sound design lets you imagine the cavalcades and the jubilant crowds.
At the halfway point, like a breath of fresh air, when the Court's sleighs are discovered, contemporary soundscapes evoke the nature depicted.
Finally, after plunging back into the soundscape of pomp and jubilation of Charles X's coronation, the soundtrack comes to a majestic conclusion, in a more solemn key, to accompany the discovery of Louis XVIII's funeral float.
OUR MISSIONS
- Ambience design based on historical content provided by the customer
- Art Direction
- Sound engineering: sound and music creation, sound design, production and post-production
- Advice and recommendations for multipoint distribution
- On-site spatialized sound mixing.
