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Activity area: Audioguides - videoguides, interactivity/immersive devices, Cultural mediation, Sound design

Why Sound?

Because sound allows us to reveal the invisible aspects of territories.

What we put into the visitors’ ears are intricate weavings: testimonials from locals and/or resource persons connected to the places, actors, narrative voices, original musical compositions, and sonic and noise-based creations.

Sound is like Proust’s madeleine, evoking mental images; it’s an enveloping universe that fosters immersion and letting go. It offers long-form storytelling, ideal for discovery.

Some references:

A visitor journey punctuated with sound capsules for Jean-Henri Fabre’s Harmas (MNHN);

A geolocated audio walk at the Citadel of Doullens (Somme Patrimoine);

The “Confident Connecté,” an immersive sound dive into surrealist lands at the Nantes Museum of Arts and into the graffiti of the so-called “trois religions” cell at the Château de Vincennes (CMN);

Native podcasts for La Rochelle Tourisme, created in close collaboration with tour guides.

Photo credits:

Photo 1: Jérôme Fihey

Photo 2: Guillaume Crochez

Photo 3 : Chloé Gautier