Ecouter les oiseaux : Livre + CD

This CD accompanies and mirrors the book “Listening to Birds and the Sounds of Nature” by Bernard Fort, offering a sensitive and demanding journey through the French audio-naturalist school, from its pioneers to its contemporary practitioners.
From Jean Roché to Fernand Deroussen, from Bernard Fort to Marc Namblard, from Denis Wagenmann to Olivier Pichard, from Boris Jollivet to Pascal Dhuicq, and extending to the critical and post-naturalist approaches of Adèle de Baudouin, Grégoire Chauvot, and Mélia Roger, each listening piece affirms a singular way of inhabiting the world through sound. Forests, reed beds, deserts, clear-cut landscapes, wetlands, and nocturnal environments become territories of attention. Here, recording nature is by turns observation, narrative, composition, patient listening, and testimony. A disc designed to teach us how to listen to birds and animals — and, through them, to the environments that sustain them.
Patrick Frémeaux

JEAN ROCHÉ FORÊTS ET LAC AMÉRICAINS, ENREGISTRÉ ENTRE 1969 ET 1976, BOIS ET MARÉCAGES AMAZONIENS DE L’EXTRÊME SUD VÉNÉZUÉLIEN, VENEZUELA • JEAN ROCHÉ GONOLECK À VENTRE BLANC (LANIARIUS AETHIOPICUS), LAC NAKURU, KENYA DE L’OUEST • BERNARD FORT PLUIE EN FORÊT, MAI 1995, MONT SAINT HILAIRE, MONTÉRÉGIES (QUÉBEC), CANADA • MARC NAMBLARD BRAME DU CERF : RÉPIT DANS UNE SOUILLE. (TITRE ALTERNATIF : UNE SOUILLE À L’ORÉE DU BRAME), 18 SEPTEMBRE 2025, VERS 19 H, VALLÉE DU NEUNÉ (VOSGES), FRANCE • ADÈLE DE BAUDOUIN ECOTONE – AQUATIC, 2022, PARC NATUREL RÉGIONAL DU HAUT-JURA (JURA), FRANCE • DENIS WAGENMANN « ÉMULATION », CAPTATION DU 12 JUIN 2021 À 8H14, LE PUECH DE FOURNOULÈS, SUD CANTAL (CANTAL), FRANCE • OLIVIER PICHARD, BUTOR ÉTOILÉ ET OISEAUX DES ROSELIÈRES DU LAC DE MADINE, 12 MAI 2024, (MEUSE), FRANCE • GRÉGOIRE CHAUVOT ET MÉLIA ROGER ENGOULEVENT D’EUROPE DANS UNE COUPE RASE, 2021, HAUT-BEAUJOLAIS (RHÔNE), FRANCE • BORIS JOLLIVET, « NO MAN’S LAND », PIÈCE SONORE, 2026 • FERNAND DEROUSSEN, VOYAGES EN SONS NATURE - LAC IRIKI, 04 AVRIL 2025, MAROC • PASCAL DHUICQ, L’OISEAU DES POÈTES, 17 AVRIL 2025, MÉMOTOPIC-NATURE, ÉTANG DU BLIZON (INDRE), FRANCE.

RÉALISATION : BERNARD FORT

Écouter les oiseaux et les sons de la nature ('Listening to Birds and the Sounds of Nature') is a sensitive work devoted to a practice that is still too little recognized: audio-naturalism. Born in the 1960s with Jean Roché, founder of the French school of listening to living nature, audio-naturalism made sound a genuine tool for understanding natural environments, long before the concept of biodiversity became central to public debate.
At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, this book retraces the genealogies, founding figures, and contemporary developments of this discipline, from the embodied listening of soundscapes to the emergence of eco-acoustics. Bringing together naturalists, sound recordists, researchers, artists, and philosophers, this work explores sonic landscapes. It examines the techniques, forms of expression, and ethical dimensions of listening, while situating audio-naturalism within the major contemporary reflections on living systems.
This book is intended for all those who wish to understand, through listening, what connects humanity to the living world — and why learning to listen has today become an act of knowledge, responsibility, and transmission.
Patrick FRÉMEAUX

708 PAGES

AVEC LES CONTRIBUTIONS DE BERNARD FORT (LA GRIVE SOLITAIRE, FRÉMEAUX) • FERNAND DEROUSSEN (NATURO-PHONIA) • JÉRÔME SUEUR (MUSÉUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE) • JEAN-CLAUDE ROCHÉ (SITTELLE-FRÉMEAUX) • JULIETTE VOLCLER (SYNTONE) • MARC JACQUIN (PHONURGIA NOVA) • GILLES MALATRAY (DÉSARTSONNANTS) • MARC NAMBLARD • BRICE CANNAVO • DENIS WAGENMANN (LES CHEMINS SONORES) • BORIS JOLLIVET (FRÉMEAUX) • LÊ QUAN NINH (SONATURA) • OLIVIER PICHARD • ADÈLE DE BAUDOIN (SYRIGMA) • MÉLIA ROGER • PASCAL DHUICQ (MEMOTOPIC) • ALLAIN BOUGRAIN-DUBOURG (LIGUE POUR LA PROTECTION DES OISEAUX) • PATRICK FRÉMEAUX (FRÉMEAUX, FORÊTS ET CAMPAGNES D’AVENIR)