Paris Dadaphone

Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds

By Guillaume Loizillon. "This composition is a wandering in Paris in January 2016. We cross streets or places, which remind us in memory some personalities of Dada. The Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp streets, the Hausmann boulevard (which is not the one of Raoul !) and the quay Voltaire, far from the Zurich cabaret. In this Parisian landscape build with names of some of its places, we meet Duchamp, Man Ray, Tzara, Max Ernst, and Raoul Hausmann who still reside in the city with their voices. Some foreign sounds were also clandestinely invited in the soundscape. Among it, a few bars of Tchaikovski: the public garden of which goes along the Tristan Tzara street. The piece is thought as a phonomontage, tribute to the photomontages of Hanna Höch. The general shape is built by drawing lots of the various Parisian recordings. The audio documents of the Dada personalities were then inserted along the piece as well as the foreign sounds into the rumours of Paris, in echo to Duchamp and Man Ray evoking the diversion of the objects. Sonic elements: Parisian field recordings made in Paris (January 2016) : Guillaume Loizillon Various field recordings (River, insects in Athens, storm), electronic sounds : Guillaume Loizillon Extract of “Casse noisette” : Tchaikovski Audio documents, extracts from: (source, ubuweb) Marcel Duchamp: BBC interview, 1968 Marcel Duchamp: “A propos des ready made” interview with Ph. Colin, Paris 1967 Raoul Hausmann: “Dada For Now”, 1959 Man Ray: Interview (no date) Max Ernst: Interview, 1960 Tristan Tzara: “Dada into surrealism”, 1959"