Foucault’s Voice – Sound Archives
Can the voice betray a thought being conceived or convinced? David Christoffel embodies a sort of archeologist digging through sounds and thoughts with computer tools that pierce the vast body of Michel Foucault’s work. “When I started listening to classes at the Collège de France in the Foucault archives deposited at the IMEC, I wondered if we could hear any of the stigmata of his way of thinking in his way of speaking. The idea of this original radio piece is therefore to test this hypothesis over a 30-minute period.” Thirty years after his death, we listen in to Foucault. This evening concludes the symposium Foucault(s) 1984-2014, with the radio creation projected parallel to the sound archives from the Foucault-Barthes-Boulez-Deleuze encounter at Centre Pompidou.
David Christoffel La voix de Foucault,
commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Premiere
Ircam Computer Music Design Grégory Beller
An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Centre Michel Foucault, Fonds Michel Foucault/IMEC (Institut de la mémoire de l’édition contemporaine) coproduction. With the kind cooperation of Michel Foucault’s beneficiaries. In collaboration with university Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (PhiCo, EA3562) and Paris Est-Créteil/UPEC (LIS, EA 4395). With the support of the Sacem.