Listening to our Inner Breath: the Acoustic Architecture of Avec le Vent (With the Wind)

Authors

Laura Romero

Abstract

Avec Le Vent (With the Wind) is a radio art composition directed, edited and mixed by Jeanne Debarsy, about the story of exile and memories of three Armenian people living in Brussels and Paris. This review is an attempt to describe how the author breaks with verbal discourse to create an experience of transportation for listeners, through the musical use of layers of breaths coming from the characters and the sound effects caused by instruments of wind, such as the duduk, a potent symbol of Armenia. It is a poetic approach to the experience of uprooting and the need to return to roots, which is still present today: a story that keeps repeating itself, like the zig-zag of the wind, the waves of the sea... the sound of our breath.

Recommended Citation

Romero, Laura, Listening to our Inner Breath: the Acoustic Architecture of Avec le Vent (With the Wind), RadioDoc Review, 4(1), 2018.