CREATIVE WRITING, 2 VERSIONS (SPANISH & FRENCH)
María Montero & Norbert Merjagnan
SOUND & MUSICAL CREATIONS, SOUND RECORDING, VOICE-OVER RECORDING
Eddie Ladoire
TRANSLATIONS V.F. & V.E.
Emmanuelle Gines & Silvia Díaz
RECORDING THE VOICES FOR THE SPANISH VERSION IN COSTA RICA
Rafael Chinchilla & Eddie Ladoire at Studio Central, San José
SINGING
Berenice
VOICE
SPANISH VERSION: Montserrat Montero (Guampu), Andrés Montero (guide) / F.V.: Séverine Faramond (Guampu), Frédéric Kneip (guide)
ALLIANCE FRAnçaise du costa rica / San José Museum of Costa Rican Art
"¡Puguán, Puguán!", a geolocated sound trail to (re)discover the Salon Dorado bas-relief at San José's Costa Rican Art Museum
Broadcast on our Listeners Production application in French and Spanish
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Initiated by theAlliance Français du Costa Rica as part of the 2023 edition of the Novembre Numérique festival, and produced in partnership with the Museum of Costa Rican Art in San José, the sound trail "¡Puguán, Puguán!"
offers a different way to visit the museum, including a (re)discovery of the Salon Dorado bas-relief, a work by French artist Louis Féron that represents the main events and periods in Costa Rican history, from the Pre-Columbian era to the 1940s.
Three artists, two writers and a composer, were invited to take up residencies at the Alliance Française and the Museum of Costa Rican Art in San José, to write and compose the original literary and sound creations for this artistic tour which, far from being a traditional audioguide, enhances the experience of visiting the museum.
Our missions:
- Consulting, setting up the geolocation route and supplying the Listeners application
- Audio Design and Production
- Sound and music creation, recording, editing, mixing and mastering: Eddie Ladoire
- Voice recording in Costa Rica and France
A historical and fantastic literary creation for an unusual visit to the museum and a renewed reading of Louis Féron's bas-relief in the Salon doré.
Costa Rican author and journalist Maria Montero and French science-fiction writer Norbert Merjagnan have teamed up to write a story that allows you to enter both the history of Costa Rica as depicted by Louis Féron in his bas-relief of the Salon Dorado, and the history of a fictional character, a woman named Guampu. Guampu speaks to you, she is the voice of all the women in the history evoked, both living memory and ghost. She has lived many lives, and goes back in time to her first incarnation as an indigenous woman. The memory of a shamanic trance shifts Guampu into a poetic and fantastic tone, evoking the power of the forest and of life.
A contemporary musical creation and soundscapes composed from sounds recorded in Costa Rica for an immersive listening experience.
French composer Eddie Ladoire drew inspiration from musical pieces by Olivier Messiaen and Julián Carrillo on the themes of travel, the relationship between space and time, and Central America, to write original music that refers to the modern music of Féron's time and to the piano present in the living-room space. This strange, mysterious music, combined with electroacoustic compositions based on concrete sounds recorded in Costa Rica, in the city and in the forest, and the lively, committed performance of selected actors, help to draw you into Guampu's extraordinary adventures.
