A Parisian Playground for Sound

Récréation Sonore is an outlet for sound creation on Radio Campus Paris. In December In The Dark’s Connor Walsh met some of the people behind it at the Hors Transistor conference in Paris. Here’s the interview in full (N.B. it’s largely in French) and some specially chosen excerpts.

The team we hear from are, in order of appearance: Emily Vallat, Léa Minod, Joyce Conroy-Aktouche, and Chloé Sanchez:

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The excerpted episode can be heard in full here.

Léa talks more about her own work in Récréation Sonore, and introduces a favourite excerpt from Canadian producer Gabrielle Godin:

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The excerpted episode in full.

A monthly feature within Récréation Sonore harks back to most basic elements of radio – the mono mic and the human voice:

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The team also recommended these favourite episodes:

Le problème avec les sons, c’est la musique

Sur mon île

Ca Druc Drac dans Récréation Sonore 

Récréation Sonore’s outlet, Radio Campus Paris, turns 15 later this year, so keep an ear out for celebratory events.

Contact the team by email creationsonore@radiocampusparis.org and, for the record, the episode looking at In The Dark is here