About this episode

This episode features a documentary work by Stéphane Borrel that creatively uses laughter as its primary sound material.

Documentary recordings of laughter musically interweave in this imagined scene By Stéphane Borrel (2024) Les Anciens (The Elders) is part of a larger electroacoustic (acousmatic) work by Stéphane Borrel called Laughing Tonalities. The work uses as its essential sound material the laughter from recordings of three hundred invited participants. Stéphane writes, “The musical writing – … Continue reading "The Elders"

Topics covered

• electroacoustic music
• documentary
• laughter
• sound art
• imagination

Keywords

• electroacoustic
• laughter
• documentary
• sound material
• musical writing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Les Anciens (The Elders), Laughing Tonalities

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