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23e colloque ICTM — organisé par le CREM

 

Liminal Utte rances CREM ICTM 2015Proposé sous l’égide de l’International Council for Traditional Musi c (ICTM) et organisé par le Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie (CREM-L ESC/CNRS) à l’université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, ce colloque perme ttra aux spécialistes des interactions vocales de débattre durant trois jou rs des questions et des pistes actuelles dans l’étude des énoncés liminaire s. L’objet appelant par nature le croisement de plusieurs disciplines, les chercheurs invités, au nombre de vingt, proviennent de l’anthropologie, de l’ethnolinguistique, de l’ethnomusicologie, et de l’acoustique. S’y ajouten t des ingénieurs en traitement des archives et en analyse informatique du s ignal, qui travaillent actuellement à de nouveaux outils d’indexation des f ormes vocales.

HPIM5699 BinBash Sketch1Comment caractériser la relation singulière que le langage entretient avec la voix ? Leur lien pouvait paraître évident avant le développement de l'écriture. Avec celle-ci cependant, une part sig nificative de la communication linguistique peut se dérouler en dehors de l a vocalité, et ce quelle que soit la langue considérée. De nombreux travaux en anthropologie et en linguistique ont par ailleurs montré que l’usage de voix dans le langage était perméable à d’autres manières d’utiliser l’appa reil phonatoire. Décrits comme « chants », « cris », «& nbsp;lamentations », « psalmodies », « rires », «& nbsp;onomatopées » ou « idéophones », ces usages de la voix ont en commun d’entrer dans une dynamique complexe avec le langage articulé . Objets d’étude pour une part croissante de la communauté scientifique, ce s énoncés liminaires interrogent également les ingénieurs et archivistes co nfrontés à la nécessité d’en catégoriser les documents sonores selon des cr itères stables et cohérents. En parallèle, l’étude pragmatique des interact ions vocales rencontre d’autres cas-limite sous les traits de la glossolali e, du ventriloquisme, des voix « habitées » des médiums et des ch amanes. Ces cas posent tous la question de la source d’animation du message , et de l’efficacité performative des énoncés en tant qu’actes vocaux.

Proposé sous l’égide de l’International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) et organisé au Centre de recherche en ethnomus icologie (CREM-LESC/CNRS) à l’université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, c e colloque permettra aux spécialistes des interactions vocales de débattre durant trois jours des questions et des pistes actuelles dans l’étude des é noncés liminaires. L’objet appelant par nature le croisement de plusieurs d isciplines, les chercheurs invités, au nombre de vingt, proviennent de l’an thropologie, de l’ethnolinguistique, de l’ethnomusicologie, et de l’acousti que. S’y ajoutent des ingénieurs en traitement des archives et en analyse i nformatique du signal, qui travaillent actuellement à de nouveaux outils d’ indexation des formes vocales.


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La relation entre langage et musique a f ait l’objet d’un long débat en ethnomusicologie. Le sujet a été soulevé dan s l'article de List sur la frontière entre parole et chant (1963), dans les travaux de George Herzog sur la relation entre musique et texte (1934, 194 2, 1950), et dans l'analyse du « discours musical » de John Black ing (1982). En une chaîne quasiment ininterrompue, différents travaux ont d epuis précisé les données ethnographiques sur différentes pratiques vocales aux frontières entre langage et musique (lamentations, récitations et psal modies, chants dont les paroles sont ou non compréhensibles pour les locute urs).

En ethnolinguistique, des auteurs tels Laura Gr aham (1984, 1987), Ellen Basso (1985), Charles Briggs (1993), Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1999), et Aaron Fox (1992, 2004) ont analysé des modes d’énonciati on où la forme vocale prend le pas sur le contenu sémantique (salutations r ituelles ou incantations thérapeutiques par exemple), ou bien des formes d’ interaction affectée par l’irruption d’énonciateurs non-humains (divinités, esprits, animaux) dans la voix des locuteurs. L’une des conclusions vers l esquelles ces travaux convergent est que la musicalité du discours est un a spect crucial, trop souvent négligé, ouvrant la voie à une description rigo ureuse des croyances religieuses.

Très peu d'études o nt cependant pris pour point de départ le lien étroit qui existe entre les dimensions sémantique et acoustique de la voix (voir Feld et Fox 1994). La fragmentation épistémologique du champ vocal entre linguistique, musicologi e et anthropologie reste un obstacle de taille. Pour tenter de relever le d éfi, ce colloque portera précisément sur les énoncés liminaires situés à la frontière entre la voix parlée et chantée. Seront privilégiés des matériau x comme les lamentations, le babillage, les comptines, la récitation corani que, les narrations mélodisées et les contes chantés, le scat, la glossolal ie, ainsi que l’usage et les variations de la voix dans la liturgie, le rec ours à l'iconicité du langage, ou encore à des jeux portant sur l'intonatio n dans les performances poétiques et les discours politiques. Au travers de ces études de cas, l’enjeu sera de croiser les analyses acoustique, sémant ique et pragmatique des énoncés vocaux. Aux frontières de l’anthropologie, de l’ethnomusicologie, de la linguistique et de l’ingénierie, le colloque s ’inscrit dans une perspective interdisciplinaire qui fera surgir de nouveau x objets.

 

23rd ICTM colloquium — organized by the CREM

The relation between speech and song is an old debate in ethnomusicology. The t opic was notably addressed List’s important article on the boundaries of sp eech and song (1963), in George Herzog's early explorations of the relation ship between music and text (1934, 1942, 1950), and in John Blacking's acco unt of musical "discourse" (1982). Linguistically informed works addressed the question as well, such as that by Laura Graham (1984, 1987), Charles Br iggs (1993), Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1999), and Aaron Fox (1992, 2004) .But five decades after List’s foundational article, the topic conti nues to inspire discussion. The reason may be, as Anthony Seeger suggested, that the separation of disciplines that study different aspects of “vocal and verbal art has had a disastrous effect on the development of our thinki ng about them” (1986: 59). The wish to reconsider this separation has been pointed out for decades. This is particularly the case for studies foc using on liminal utterances, such as glossolalias or scat. Described by pra ctitioners as an “event occurring in my throat” (Certeau 1996: 38), gl ossolalias are cases of vocal production without clear semantic meaning whi ch multiplies the possibilities of speech. The decomposition of syllables a nd the combination of elementary sounds in games of alliteration create “an indefinite space outside of the jurisdiction of a language" (Certeau 1996: 42). In his study on scat, Brent Hayes Edwards (2002) also argue s about an extended vocal space: a continuum between instrumental uses of t he voice and vocal uses of instruments. In jazz, both are supposed to narra te stories.

But still very few studies build their analysis on the intimate link between the semantics and acoustics of voice production. As pointed out by Steven Feld and Aaron Fox (1994), most studies in ethnom usicology have difficulties in simultaneously taking into account the words and sounds of vocal production, and combined analyses of the semantics and acoustics of vocal production are still very few and mostly unsatisfactory .

To try to take up this challenge, this colloquium w ill focus on liminal utterances, at the border between speech and song. We will consider utterances such as laments, nursery rhymes, Qur'anic chanting , recitative or the use of the monotone voice in liturgy, iconicity of lang uage, scat, glossolalias, melodized narrations, sung tales, vocal intonatio n in poetical performances and in political discourses, among others. Speci al attention will be given to a deeply combined analysis of the acoustics a nd semantics of these utterances.

Référ ences

BEAUDET Jean-Michel 1996 “Rire. Un exemple d'Amazonie”. L'Homme 36 (140): 81-99.
BLAC KING John 1982 “The Structure of Musical Discourse: The Problem of the Song Text”. Yearbook for Traditional Music 14: 15‑23.BRIGGS Charles L. 1993 “Personal Sentiments and Polyphonic Voices i n Warao Women’s Ritual Wailing: Music and Poetics in a Critical and Collect ive Discourse”. American Anthropologist 95(4): 929‑957.
CERTEAU (DE) Michel 1996 “Vocal Utopias: Glossolalias”.  Representations 56: 29‑47.
EDWARDS Brent Hayes 2002 “Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat”. Critical Inquiry  28(3): 618‑649.
FELD Steven & FOX Aaron 1994 “Mus ic and Language”. Annual Review of Anthropology 23: 25―53.
FOX Aaron 1992 “The Jukebox of History: Narratives of Loss and Desire in the Discourse of Country Music”. Popular Music&n bsp;11(1): 53‑72.
2004 Real Country: Music and Lang uage in Working-Class Culture. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Pres s.
GRAHAM Laura 1984 “Semanticity and Melody: Parameters of Contrast in Shavante Vocal Expression”. Latin American Music Revie w 5(2): 161‑185.
1987 “Three Modes of Shavante Voc al Expression: Wailing, Collective Singing, and Political Oratory”, in Sher zer & Urban dir.: Native South American Discourse. Berlin, New-York: Mouton de Gruyter: 83‑118.
HERZOG George 1934 “Sp eech-Melody and Primitive Music”. The Musical Quarterly 20 (4): 452‑466.
1942 “The Text and Melody in Primitive Music” . Bulletin of the American Musicological Society 6: 10‑11.
1950 “Song”, in Leach dir.: Funk and Wagnalls Stan dart Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. New-York: Funk and W agnalls 2: 1032‑1050.
LIST George 1963 “The Boundaries of Speech and Song”. Ethnomusicology 7(1): 1‑16.NATTIEZ Jean-Jacques 1999 Proust musicien. Paris : Christian Bourgeois éditeur.
SEEGER Anthony 1986 “Oratory Is Spoken, Myth Is Told, and Song Is Sung, But They Are All Music to My Ear s”, in Sherzer & Urban dir.: Native South American Discourse. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 59‑82.

Programme 

 

Organizers

Coo rdination: Estelle AMY DE LA BRETÈQUE ( CREM-LESC/CNRS, France)

Scientific committee

Bernd BRABEC DE MORI (University of Music and Performing Arts, Austria)

Junzo KAWADA (Kanagawa University, Japan)

Anthony SEEGER (UCLA, USA)
Kati SZEGO (Memorial University of Newf oundland - Executive Board member of ICTM, Canada)

Stephen WILD (Australian National University - Vice Pre sident of ICTM, Australia)

Local organization committee

Jean-Michel BEA UDET (UPO - CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Sus anne FÜRNISS (MNHN/CNRS, president of the French Society for Ethnomusicology)

Andrea-Luz GUTIERREZ-CHOQUEV ILCA (EPHE/LAS - Collège de France)

Giordano MARMONE (UPO, CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Magali De RUYTER (UPO, CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Victor A. STOICHITA (Director of the Res earch Center for Ethnomusicology – CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Wi th additional help from: Loré Ajirent-Sagaspe, < strong>Éline Breton, Sisa Calapi, Preciosa Dombele, Laurence Lemaur (ethnomusicology student s at UPO) and Iris Lemaître (student in Libraria n Studies, UPO).

Partner institutions< /strong>

The International Council fo r Traditional Music (ICTM) is a Non-Governmental Organisa tion in formal consultative relations with UNESCO. Its aims are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of tradi tional music and dance of all countries. To these ends the Council organise s World Conferences, Symposia and Colloquia. The Council also promotes thes e goals by publishing the Yearbook for Traditional Music, distributing the online Bulletin of the ICTM, and maintaining a ri ch Online Membership Directory. By means of its wide international representation and the activities of its Study Groups, the International Council for Traditio nal Music acts as a bond among peoples of different cultures.
< br />The Research Center in Ethnomusicology (CREM) is heir to the former Ethnomusicology Department of th e Musée de l’Homme (1929-2008), and has been part of the Research Team in Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LE SC – UMR 7186) since 2007. The CREM is dedicated to the study of musical pr actices and knowledge worldwide.
Based on ethnography and a systematic collection of musical data, its approach pertains to an anthrop ology of music conceived in its socio-cultural, aesthetic, formal, acoustic , kinesthetic and cognitive dimensions. The Center investigates new researc h topics such as the embodiment of musical and choreographic skills, the cu ltural and cognitive production of musical emotion, the interconnectedness of sensory modalities, the ecology of sonic environments, the construction and emergence of musical systems. Its researchers also create new modalities of musical representation, such as their “listening clues” (clés d’écoute) : these multimedia devic es guide the general public towards crucial aspects of specific musical exp ressions.
The CREM manages a large collection of sound archives inherited from the Musée de l’Homme a nd accumulated over more than a century. With more than 4,000 hours of unpu blished fieldwork recordings and about 4,000 hours of published documents, these archives of great patrimonial value are made available online through the collaborative platform Telemeta. The collections are const antly nourished through the researchers’ fieldwork. The recordings are used as materials for new research, as preparation for new fieldwork, and for t he training of graduate students.
CREM researchers, lecture rs and professors hold important responsibilities at the Anhropology departmen t of Paris Ouest Nanterre – La Défense University, as well as at t he Musicology Department of P aris 8 – St Denis University. Numerous graduate students from these univers ities are members of the CREM, which offers them a stimulating scientific a nd logistic environment.

The ANR project DIADEMS (Description, Indexation, et Accès aux Documents Ethnomusic ologiques et Sonores) is a partnership between several teams dealing with a coustics, ethnolinguistics and ethnomusicological documents, and informatic ians. The laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC) includin g the research center of ethnomusicology (CREM) and the center of teac hing and research in American Indian ethnology (EREA) as well as the labora tory of anthropology of National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) are deali ng with the need to index the audio archives they manage, while keeping tra ck of the contents, which is a long, fastidious and expensive task. Since 2 007, as no open-source application exists on the market to access the audio data recorded by researchers, the CREM-LESC, the LAM and the sound archive s of the MNHN began the conception of an innovate and collaborative tool th at answers the trade needs (linked to the documents temporal span), while b eing adapted to the researchers requirements.
With financia l support from the CNRS Très Grand Equipement (TGE), ADONIS and the Mnistry of culture, the Telemeta platform, developed by Parisson, is online since May 2011 (http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr). On this platform, basic sig nal analysis tools are already available, It is however mandatory to have a set of advanced and innovative tools for automatic or semi-automatique ind exing of this audio data, that includes sometimes long recordings, with qui te heterogeneous content and quality. The aim of the DIADEMS project is to supply some of these tools, to integrate them into Telemeta, while also sat isfying specific user needs related to ergonomy and accest rights managemen t.

L'école doctorale « Milieux, cultures et sociétés du passé et du présent » associe un ensemble de disciplines : Archéologie, Ethnologie- Pr éhistoire-Ethnomusicologie, Géographie, Aménagement-urbanisme, Histoire, Hi stoire de l'Art, Langues et Lettres anciennes. Elle regroupe 9 équipes de r echerche entre lesquelles se répartissent quelque 460 doctorants et 105 dir ecteurs de thèse.  Elle assure 3 missions au sein de l'Université : pé dagogique — organisation des enseignements doctoraux et suivi des doctorant s, soutien à la professionnalisation ; organisationnelle — budget, contrats doctoraux, a politique de financement des thèses mais aussi de veille au r espect de la charte des thèses de l'université ; animation de la recherche —  recherche de convergences entre les programmes des unités de recherche d e manière à définir de grandes orientations thématiques.

La Société française d’ethnomusicologie&n bsp;(SFE) est une société savante dont la mission est d'e ncourager, de soutenir et de promouvoir la réflexion sur les musiques du mo nde. La SFE, est aussi un réseau d’experts, actifs au sein d’institutions c omme l’Unesco, les musées, les festivals ou les médias (presse écrite, radi os, TV, internet), qui contribuent ainsi à la connaissance et à la diffusio n des expressions artistiques et culturelles de l’humanité. Elle est l’orga ne représentatif de l’ICTM en France.

Attending

Thank s to our partner institutions, attending the colloquium i s entirely free for everyone.

Audience members (apart from staff and invited speakers) are welcome to share the co llective meals, at their own expense.

Hotel

Invited participants are hosted at  Hôtel Qualys Nanterre, 2, avenue Benoît Frachon 92000 Nanterre, Tel. 01 46 95 08 08.
The hotel is within a few minutes walk from the RER A stop "Nanterre Ville". 
To plan your arrival, we suggest using the RATP route planner available here: http://www.ratp.fr/itineraires/en/ratp/recherche-avancee& nbsp;If you encounter any difficulties with the planner, please email us yo ur travel details and we’ll check the best route for you.

Participants staying at the hotel will be provided upon their arrival with RER tickets for the daily commuting between the hotel and the university (1 stop).

It is also possible to walk the distance, should you prefer to do so.
Easie st way to arrive, whether from Paris or from the hotel, is by  RER A, stop "Nanterre Université". It is also possible to walk fro m the Hotel to the University (straight walk, ca. 20 min ).
The colloquium takes place o n the campus of Nanterre University, buildi ng B, Salle des Conférences. Below is a map of the campus.

 

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Meals

Lunches will be served at the university’s restau rant on campus — the pink building on the map above, named Resto U.< br />
Invited speakers arriving on the 19th afternoon are invited for dinner at Hotel Qualys.

Dinners and vocal workshops on 20 th and 21st will take place at the "Fer me du Bonheur". This is just in front of the building marked "MAE" in green on the map (but it is not a component of the University, therefore it does n’t appear on the map).

Farewell dinner on 22nd will take place at F lam’s restaurant in Paris (Rue des Lombardshttp://crem-cnrs.fr/pl ugins/system/jcemediabox/img/zoom-link.gif); background-color: t ransparent; display: inherit; background-position: right center; background -repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">).

The intention of this co lloquium on Liminal utterances is to discuss "hands on", with as many audio and video examples as possible. The Multimedia Presentations are an experi ment in that direction. Presenters were invited to combine audiovisual data and analysis in order to produce a (more-or-less) self-standing video file containing an argument or simply raising questions about the illustrated s ound practices. These files are available below. They will also be played d uring the conference, where each of them will be followed by extensive disc ussion sessions with their authors. Click on an image below to start a pres entation (should open an popup with a HTML5 video).

< h2>Liminal utterances: multimedia presentations

Between Speech and Song: Liminal utterances of sadness in Anat olia and the Caucasus

Amy de la Bretèque — view the presentationESTELLE AMY DE LA BRETEQUE (CREM-LESC/CNRS, France)

This presentation explores the practice of melodized speech in the Caucas us and Anatolia. Taking as a case study the Yezidi Kurds in Armenia, it exp lains why this practice, linked to the narration of sad events, stands at t he border between speech and song in the local typology of vocal production . On a wider area, the comparison of three case studies from fieldwork cond ucted in Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia shows how elderly women integrate m elodized speech in daily conversations. Beyond religious, national and ling uistic differences, the similarity of these practices suggests a shared soc ial-vocal nexus in Anatolia and the Caucasus.





The vocality of a religious poem among the Pomaks

Eftychia Drout sa — view the presentationEFTYCHIA DROUTSA (Iremus/University Paris 4 Sorbonne, F rance)

 

This work questio ns “vocality”, that is the sound production of speech and song among the Po maks through their religious poem called mevlud.

Dating from the 15th century, the mevlud i s a poem attributed to the poet Suleyman Çelebi, in which he relates the bi rth, the life and the death of the Prophète Mohamed. It is written in osman li (Othoman, ancient Turkish in arabic characters) in the poetic form of ma snavi, structured in a series of versified distiches where each verse adher es on a metric regularity of eleven syllables. We find this poem among Poma ks, a mountain population, muslim and trilingual, who speaktheir own Slavic dialect - Pomak -, Greek and Turkish. They live in the north of Greece in the area of Thrace and are recognized officially as “a religious minority” by the Greek Government. Pomaks learn to read the mevlud, on which they ada pt a repetitive motif borrowed, modified and customized according to indivi dual preferences and abilities. However, most of them do not understand the literal meaning of the poetic text. It is in this particular context, wher e the words are detached from their litteral meaning and become a medium fo r statement, that we will approach the duality of speech and song through a sound editing, where the words are sung, whispered, muttered, recited or s imply said.





Development of turn taking in vocal interaction between mothers and infants aged betwe en 2 and 4 months

RUBI A INFANTI & EBRU YILMAZ (Laboratoire Ethologie, Cognition, Development -EA 3456-, University Paris-West, France)

Infants are known to engage in conversation-like exchanges from the en d of the second month after birth. These ‘protoconversations’ involve both turn-taking and overlapping vocalization. Previous research has shown that the timing of adult-infant turn-taking sequences is close to that of adult verbal conversation. The gap between turns in protoconversational exchange seldom exceeds 500ms. It has also been shown that young infants adjust the quality of their vocalization in response to the quality and timing of adul t vocalization. Furthermore, turn-taking exchanges often involve mutual imi tation of sounds, pitches and melodic contour. We present new evidence of t he timing and temporal organization of turn-taking interaction between moth ers and 2 to 4-month-olds recorded in naturalistic contexts based on a corp us of recordings from 50 French dyads. All of them were recorded in natural istic contexts, in their home, when infants were in a quiet alert state. Th e entire sample comprised a total of 2943 vocalizations of which 748 (25.4% ) were produced by the infants, 1851 (62.9%) were produced by the mothers, and 344 were overlapping vocalizations (11.7%). In all, 489 turns taking se quences were identified. The quality and duration of infant vocalizations d iffered according to whether or not they were produced within a turn-taking sequence. Finally, length and number of turns were highly correlated betwe en mothers and infants vocalizations.

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Sung assemblies or declaimed songs? The samburu soloi sts (Kenya) on the border between political discussion and musical activity

Giordano Marmone — View the presentationGIORDANO MARMONE (CREM-LESC/Universit y Paris West)

Among the Samburu of Ke nya the leaders and the spokesmen of the warriors' age-grade, the so-called larikok, play a fundamental role in both political and musical domains. Th e oratorical skills of which they must be provided to protect the interests of the warriors during the assemblies, core of the Samburu political syste m, also allow them to stand out as main soloists during the singing and dan cing





 

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Ferdinand Brunot and the Archives de la Parole

François Picard — view the presentationFRANÇOIS PICARD (Iremus, Univers ity Paris 4 Sorbonne, France)

The Arc hives de la Parole or Spoken Archives have been founded by the French histo rian of French language and grammarian Ferdinand Brunot at Sorbonne univers ity in 1911. Using a Pathéphone phonograph, he recorded spoken or singing v oices, he classified in main sections: I for “interprètes”, O for “orateurs ”, L for «langues”, D for “dialectes”. Taking it as a solid corpus, we anal yse it using digital tools according to the relation between pitch, intensi ty and timbre, and find it possible through strong descriptors to recover l ocal, culturally meaningful, categories. The question of whether this new c ategorisation could be universal will be asked.sessions. This double form o f authority is based on what, among the Samburu, is considered as one of th e essential features of male leadership: the ability of “dominating the wor ds” in all their forms, both sung and spoken. At the same time, this connec tion between political debate and soloist singing is not focused exclusivel y on the double social role of the larikok. The vocal technique that charac terizes a big part of the Samburu's musical repertoire, in fact, is definab le as a form of speech shaped around the rhythm of the dance. It confers to the melodic contour of the soloist's part the prosodic characteristics of the spoken language, making Samburu choral songs a sort of oratorical confr ontation between soloists, very close, structurally and verbally, to the as semblies' debate scheme. The process of decision-making and the composition of the songs' lyrics lead, in both cases, to the creation of accounts whic h aim to expose opinions and stories based on real events. But if during th e assemblies the speakers' purpose is to use their own charisma for the pol itical administration of the community as representatives of an age-grade's or an age-set's interests, during the singing and dancing sessions the sol oists have the responsibility to stand for their age-group and share with t he listeners the narrative of its collective memory, contributing to assert its presence within the society.

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23e colloque ICTM — organisé par le CREM

 

Liminal Utte rances CREM ICTM 2015Proposé sous l’égide de l’International Cou ncil for Traditional Music (ICTM) et organisé par le Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie (CREM-LESC/CNRS) à l’université Paris Ouest Nanterre la D éfense, ce colloque permettra aux spécialistes des interactions vocales de débattre durant trois jours des questions et des pistes actuelles dans l’ét ude des énoncés liminaires. L’objet appelant par nature le croisement de pl usieurs disciplines, les chercheurs invités, au nombre de vingt, proviennen t de l’anthropologie, de l’ethnolinguistique, de l’ethnomusicologie, et de l’acoustique. S’y ajoutent des ingénieurs en traitement des archives et en analyse informatique du signal, qui travaillent actuellement à de nouveaux outils d’indexation des formes vocales.

HPIM5699 BinBash Sketch1 Comment caractériser la relation singulière que le langage entretient avec la voix ? Leur lien pouvait paraître évident avant le développement de l'écriture. Avec celle-ci cependant, une part significative de la communic ation linguistique peut se dérouler en dehors de la vocalité, et ce quelle que soit la langue considérée. De nombreux travaux en anthropologie et en l inguistique ont par ailleurs montré que l’usage de voix dans le langage éta it perméable à d’autres manières d’utiliser l’appareil phonatoire. Décrits comme « chants », « cris », « lamentations », « psalmodies », « rires », « onomatopées » o u « idéophones », ces usages de la voix ont en commun d’entrer da ns une dynamique complexe avec le langage articulé. Objets d’étude pour une part croissante de la communauté scientifique, ces énoncés liminaires inte rrogent également les ingénieurs et archivistes confrontés à la nécessité d ’en catégoriser les documents sonores selon des critères stables et cohéren ts. En parallèle, l’étude pragmatique des interactions vocales rencontre d’ autres cas-limite sous les traits de la glossolalie, du ventriloquisme, des voix « habitées » des médiums et des chamanes. Ces cas posent to us la question de la source d’animation du message, et de l’efficacité perf ormative des énoncés en tant qu’actes vocaux.

Proposé sous l’égide de l’International Council for Traditional Music (IC TM) et organisé au Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie (CREM-LESC/CNRS) à l’université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, ce colloque permettra aux spécialistes des interactions vocales de débattre durant trois jours des qu estions et des pistes actuelles dans l’étude des énoncés liminaires. L’obje t appelant par nature le croisement de plusieurs disciplines, les chercheur s invités, au nombre de vingt, proviennent de l’anthropologie, de l’ethnoli nguistique, de l’ethnomusicologie, et de l’acoustique. S’y ajoutent des ing énieurs en traitement des archives et en analyse informatique du signal, qu i travaillent actuellement à de nouveaux outils d’indexation des formes voc ales.


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La relation entre langage et musique a fait l’objet d’un long déb at en ethnomusicologie. Le sujet a été soulevé dans l'article de List sur l a frontière entre parole et chant (1963), dans les travaux de George Herzog sur la relation entre musique et texte (1934, 1942, 1950), et dans l'analy se du « discours musical » de John Blacking (1982). En une chaîne quasiment ininterrompue, différents travaux ont depuis précisé les données ethnographiques sur différentes pratiques vocales aux frontières entre lan gage et musique (lamentations, récitations et psalmodies, chants dont les p aroles sont ou non compréhensibles pour les locuteurs).

< span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt ;">En ethnolinguistique, des auteurs tels Laura Graham (1984, 1987), Ellen Basso (1985), Charles Briggs (1993), Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1999), et Aaron Fox (1992, 2004) ont analysé des modes d’énonciation où la forme vocale pre nd le pas sur le contenu sémantique (salutations rituelles ou incantations thérapeutiques par exemple), ou bien des formes d’interaction affectée par l’irruption d’énonciateurs non-humains (divinités, esprits, animaux) dans l a voix des locuteurs. L’une des conclusions vers lesquelles ces travaux con vergent est que la musicalité du discours est un aspect crucial, trop souve nt négligé, ouvrant la voie à une description rigoureuse des croyances reli gieuses.

Très peu d'études ont cependant pris pour po int de départ le lien étroit qui existe entre les dimensions sémantique et acoustique de la voix (voir Feld et Fox 1994). La fragmentation épistémolog ique du champ vocal entre linguistique, musicologie et anthropologie reste un obstacle de taille. Pour tenter de relever le défi, ce colloque portera précisément sur les énoncés liminaires situés à la frontière entre la voix parlée et chantée. Seront privilégiés des matériaux comme les lamentations, le babillage, les comptines, la récitation coranique, les narrations mélod isées et les contes chantés, le scat, la glossolalie, ainsi que l’usage et les variations de la voix dans la liturgie, le recours à l'iconicité du lan gage, ou encore à des jeux portant sur l'intonation dans les performances p oétiques et les discours politiques. Au travers de ces études de cas, l’enj eu sera de croiser les analyses acoustique, sémantique et pragmatique des é noncés vocaux. Aux frontières de l’anthropologie, de l’ethnomusicologie, de la linguistique et de l’ingénierie, le colloque s’inscrit dans une perspec tive interdisciplinaire qui fera surgir de nouveaux objets.

 

23rd ICTM colloquium — organized by the CREM

The relation between speech a nd song is an old debate in ethnomusicology. The topic was notably addresse d List’s important article on the boundaries of speech and song (1963), in George Herzog's early explorations of the relationship between music and te xt (1934, 1942, 1950), and in John Blacking's account of musical "discourse " (1982). Linguistically informed works addressed the question as well, suc h as that by Laura Graham (1984, 1987), Charles Briggs (1993), Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1999), and Aaron Fox (1992, 2004).But five decades after List’s foundational article, the topic continues to inspire discussio n. The reason may be, as Anthony Seeger suggested, that the separation of d isciplines that study different aspects of “vocal and verbal art has had a disastrous effect on the development of our thinking about them” (1986:&nbs p;59). The wish to reconsider this separation has been pointed out for deca des. This is particularly the case for studies focusing on liminal utteranc es, such as glossolalias or scat. Described by practitioners as an “event o ccurring in my throat” (Certeau 1996: 38), glossolalias are cases of v ocal production without clear semantic meaning which multiplies the possibi lities of speech. The decomposition of syllables and the combination of ele mentary sounds in games of alliteration create “an indefinite space ou tside of the jurisdiction of a language" (Certeau 1996: 42). In his st udy on scat, Brent Hayes Edwards (2002) also argues about an extended vocal space: a continuum between instrumental uses of the voice and vocal uses o f instruments. In jazz, both are supposed to narrate stories.

But still very few studies build their analysis on the intimate link betwee n the semantics and acoustics of voice production. As pointed out by Steven Feld and Aaron Fox (1994), most studies in ethnomusicology have difficulti es in simultaneously taking into account the words and sounds of vocal prod uction, and combined analyses of the semantics and acoustics of vocal produ ction are still very few and mostly unsatisfactory.

T o try to take up this challenge, this colloquium will focus on liminal utte rances, at the border between speech and song. We will consider utterances such as laments, nursery rhymes, Qur'anic chanting, recitative or the use o f the monotone voice in liturgy, iconicity of language, scat, glossolalias, melodized narrations, sung tales, vocal intonation in poetical performance s and in political discourses, among others. Special attention will be give n to a deeply combined analysis of the acoustics and semantics of these utt erances.

Références

BEAUDET Jean-Michel 1996 “Rire. Un exemple d'Amazonie”. L'Ho mme 36 (140): 81-99.
BLACKING John 1982 “The Struc ture of Musical Discourse: The Problem of the Song Text”. Yearbook for Traditional Music 14: 15‑23.
BRIGGS Charles L. 1993 “Personal Sentiments and Polyphonic Voices in Warao Women’s Ritual Wa iling: Music and Poetics in a Critical and Collective Discourse”. A merican Anthropologist 95(4): 929‑957.
CERTEAU (DE ) Michel 1996 “Vocal Utopias: Glossolalias”. Representations&nb sp;56: 29‑47.
EDWARDS Brent Hayes 2002 “Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat”. Critical Inquiry 28(3): 618‑649.
FELD Steven & FOX Aaron 1994 “Music and Language”. Annual Review of Anthropology 23: 25―53.
FOX Aaro n 1992 “The Jukebox of History: Narratives of Loss and Desire in the Discou rse of Country Music”. Popular Music 11(1): 53‑72.< br />2004 Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Cul ture. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press.
GRAHAM Laura 1984 “Semanticity and Melody: Parameters of Contrast in Shavante Voc al Expression”. Latin American Music Review 5(2): 161‑185.
1987 “Three Modes of Shavante Vocal Expression: Wailing, C ollective Singing, and Political Oratory”, in Sherzer & Urban dir.:&nbs p;Native South American Discourse. Berlin, New-York: Mouton de Gruyt er: 83‑118.
HERZOG George 1934 “Speech-Melody and Primitive Music”. The Musical Quarterly 20(4): 452‑466.
1942 “The Text and Melody in Primitive Music”. Bulletin of the American Musicological Society 6: 10‑11.
1950 “So ng”, in Leach dir.: Funk and Wagnalls Standart Dictionary of Folklo re, Mythology and Legend. New-York: Funk and Wagnalls 2: 1032‑1050 .
LIST George 1963 “The Boundaries of Speech and Song”.&nbs p;Ethnomusicology 7(1): 1‑16.
NATTIEZ Jean-Jacq ues 1999 Proust musicien. Paris : Christian Bourgeois édit eur.
SEEGER Anthony 1986 “Oratory Is Spoken, Myth Is Told, and Song Is Sung, But They Are All Music to My Ears”, in Sherzer & Urba n dir.: Native South American Discourse. Berlin: Mouton de Gruy ter: 59‑82.

Programme 

 

Organizers

Coo rdination: Estelle AMY DE LA BRETÈQUE ( CREM-LESC/CNRS, France)

Scientific committee

Bernd BRABEC DE MORI (University of Music and Performing Arts, Austria)

Junzo KAWADA (Kanagawa University, Japan)

Anthony SEEGER (UCLA, USA)
Kati SZEGO (Memorial University of Newf oundland - Executive Board member of ICTM, Canada)

Stephen WILD (Australian National University - Vice Pre sident of ICTM, Australia)

Local organization committee

Jean-Michel BEA UDET (UPO - CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Sus anne FÜRNISS (MNHN/CNRS, president of the French Society for Ethnomusicology)

Andrea-Luz GUTIERREZ-CHOQUEV ILCA (EPHE/LAS - Collège de France)

Giordano MARMONE (UPO, CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Magali De RUYTER (UPO, CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Victor A. STOICHITA (Director of the Res earch Center for Ethnomusicology – CREM-LESC/CNRS)

Wi th additional help from: Loré Ajirent-Sagaspe, < strong>Éline Breton, Sisa Calapi, Preciosa Dombele, Laurence Lemaur (ethnomusicology student s at UPO) and Iris Lemaître (student in Libraria n Studies, UPO).

Partner institutions< /strong>

The International Council fo r Traditional Music (ICTM) is a Non-Governmental Organisa tion in formal consultative relations with UNESCO. Its aims are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of tradi tional music and dance of all countries. To these ends the Council organise s World Conferences, Symposia and Colloquia. The Council also promotes thes e goals by publishing the Yearbook for Traditional Music, distributing the online Bulletin of the ICTM, and maintaining a ri ch Online Membership Directory. By means of its wide international representation and the activities of its Study Groups, the International Council for Traditio nal Music acts as a bond among peoples of different cultures.
< br />The Research Center in Ethnomusicology (CREM) is heir to the former Ethnomusicology Department of th e Musée de l’Homme (1929-2008), and has been part of the Research Team in Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LE SC – UMR 7186) since 2007. The CREM is dedicated to the study of musical pr actices and knowledge worldwide.
Based on ethnography and a systematic collection of musical data, its approach pertains to an anthrop ology of music conceived in its socio-cultural, aesthetic, formal, acoustic , kinesthetic and cognitive dimensions. The Center investigates new researc h topics such as the embodiment of musical and choreographic skills, the cu ltural and cognitive production of musical emotion, the interconnectedness of sensory modalities, the ecology of sonic environments, the construction and emergence of musical systems. Its researchers also create new modalities of musical representation, such as their “listening clues” (clés d’écoute) : these multimedia devic es guide the general public towards crucial aspects of specific musical exp ressions.
The CREM manages a large collection of sound archives inherited from the Musée de l’Homme a nd accumulated over more than a century. With more than 4,000 hours of unpu blished fieldwork recordings and about 4,000 hours of published documents, these archives of great patrimonial value are made available online through the collaborative platform Telemeta. The collections are const antly nourished through the researchers’ fieldwork. The recordings are used as materials for new research, as preparation for new fieldwork, and for t he training of graduate students.
CREM researchers, lecture rs and professors hold important responsibilities at the Anhropology departmen t of Paris Ouest Nanterre – La Défense University, as well as at t he Musicology Department of P aris 8 – St Denis University. Numerous graduate students from these univers ities are members of the CREM, which offers them a stimulating scientific a nd logistic environment.

The ANR project DIADEMS (Description, Indexation, et Accès aux Documents Ethnomusic ologiques et Sonores) is a partnership between several teams dealing with a coustics, ethnolinguistics and ethnomusicological documents, and informatic ians. The laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC) includin g the research center of ethnomusicology (CREM) and the center of teac hing and research in American Indian ethnology (EREA) as well as the labora tory of anthropology of National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) are deali ng with the need to index the audio archives they manage, while keeping tra ck of the contents, which is a long, fastidious and expensive task. Since 2 007, as no open-source application exists on the market to access the audio data recorded by researchers, the CREM-LESC, the LAM and the sound archive s of the MNHN began the conception of an innovate and collaborative tool th at answers the trade needs (linked to the documents temporal span), while b eing adapted to the researchers requirements.
With financia l support from the CNRS Très Grand Equipement (TGE), ADONIS and the Mnistry of culture, the Telemeta platform, developed by Parisson, is online since May 2011 (http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr). On this platform, basic sig nal analysis tools are already available, It is however mandatory to have a set of advanced and innovative tools for automatic or semi-automatique ind exing of this audio data, that includes sometimes long recordings, with qui te heterogeneous content and quality. The aim of the DIADEMS project is to supply some of these tools, to integrate them into Telemeta, while also sat isfying specific user needs related to ergonomy and accest rights managemen t.

L'école doctorale « Milieux, cultures et sociétés du passé et du présent » associe un ensemble de disciplines : Archéologie, Ethnologie- Pr éhistoire-Ethnomusicologie, Géographie, Aménagement-urbanisme, Histoire, Hi stoire de l'Art, Langues et Lettres anciennes. Elle regroupe 9 équipes de r echerche entre lesquelles se répartissent quelque 460 doctorants et 105 dir ecteurs de thèse.  Elle assure 3 missions au sein de l'Université : pé dagogique — organisation des enseignements doctoraux et suivi des doctorant s, soutien à la professionnalisation ; organisationnelle — budget, contrats doctoraux, a politique de financement des thèses mais aussi de veille au r espect de la charte des thèses de l'université ; animation de la recherche —  recherche de convergences entre les programmes des unités de recherche d e manière à définir de grandes orientations thématiques.

La Société française d’ethnomusicologie&n bsp;(SFE) est une société savante dont la mission est d'e ncourager, de soutenir et de promouvoir la réflexion sur les musiques du mo nde. La SFE, est aussi un réseau d’experts, actifs au sein d’institutions c omme l’Unesco, les musées, les festivals ou les médias (presse écrite, radi os, TV, internet), qui contribuent ainsi à la connaissance et à la diffusio n des expressions artistiques et culturelles de l’humanité. Elle est l’orga ne représentatif de l’ICTM en France.

Attending

Thank s to our partner institutions, attending the colloquium i s entirely free for everyone.

Audience members (apart from staff and invited speakers) are welcome to share the co llective meals, at their own expense.

Hotel

Invited participants are hosted at  Hôtel Qualys Nanterre, 2, avenue Benoît Frachon 92000 Nanterre, Tel. 01 46 95 08 08.
The hotel is within a few minutes walk from the RER A stop "Nanterre Ville". 
To plan your arrival, we suggest using the RATP route planner available here: http://www.ratp.fr/itineraires/en/ratp/recherche-avancee& nbsp;If you encounter any difficulties with the planner, please email us yo ur travel details and we’ll check the best route for you.

Participants staying at the hotel will be provided upon their arrival with RER tickets for the daily commuting between the hotel and the university (1 stop).

It is also possible to walk the distance, should you prefer to do so.
Easie st way to arrive, whether from Paris or from the hotel, is by  RER A, stop "Nanterre Université". It is also possible to walk fro m the Hotel to the University (straight walk, ca. 20 min ).
The colloquium takes place o n the campus of Nanterre University, buildi ng B, Salle des Conférences. Below is a map of the campus.

 

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Meals

Lunches will be served at the university’s restau rant on campus — the pink building on the map above, named Resto U.< br />
Invited speakers arriving on the 19th afternoon are invited for dinner at Hotel Qualys.

Dinners and vocal workshops on 20 th and 21st will take place at the "Fer me du Bonheur". This is just in front of the building marked "MAE" in green on the map (but it is not a component of the University, therefore it does n’t appear on the map).

Farewell dinner on 22nd will take place at F lam’s restaurant in Paris (Rue des Lombardshttp://crem-cnrs.fr/pl ugins/system/jcemediabox/img/zoom-link.gif); background-color: t ransparent; display: inherit; background-position: right center; background -repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">).

The intention of this co lloquium on Liminal utterances is to discuss "hands on", with as many audio and video examples as possible. The Multimedia Presentations are an experi ment in that direction. Presenters were invited to combine audiovisual data and analysis in order to produce a (more-or-less) self-standing video file containing an argument or simply raising questions about the illustrated s ound practices. These files are available below. They will also be played d uring the conference, where each of them will be followed by extensive disc ussion sessions with their authors. Click on an image below to start a pres entation (should open an popup with a HTML5 video).

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Between Speech and Song: Liminal utterances of sadness in Anat olia and the Caucasus

Amy de la Bretèque — view the presentationESTELLE AMY DE LA BRETEQUE (CREM-LESC/CNRS, France)

This presentation explores the practice of melodized speech in the Caucas us and Anatolia. Taking as a case study the Yezidi Kurds in Armenia, it exp lains why this practice, linked to the narration of sad events, stands at t he border between speech and song in the local typology of vocal production . On a wider area, the comparison of three case studies from fieldwork cond ucted in Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia shows how elderly women integrate m elodized speech in daily conversations. Beyond religious, national and ling uistic differences, the similarity of these practices suggests a shared soc ial-vocal nexus in Anatolia and the Caucasus.





The vocality of a religious poem among the Pomaks

Eftychia Drout sa — view the presentationEFTYCHIA DROUTSA (Iremus/University Paris 4 Sorbonne, F rance)

 

This work questio ns “vocality”, that is the sound production of speech and song among the Po maks through their religious poem called mevlud.

Dating from the 15th century, the mevlud i s a poem attributed to the poet Suleyman Çelebi, in which he relates the bi rth, the life and the death of the Prophète Mohamed. It is written in osman li (Othoman, ancient Turkish in arabic characters) in the poetic form of ma snavi, structured in a series of versified distiches where each verse adher es on a metric regularity of eleven syllables. We find this poem among Poma ks, a mountain population, muslim and trilingual, who speaktheir own Slavic dialect - Pomak -, Greek and Turkish. They live in the north of Greece in the area of Thrace and are recognized officially as “a religious minority” by the Greek Government. Pomaks learn to read the mevlud, on which they ada pt a repetitive motif borrowed, modified and customized according to indivi dual preferences and abilities. However, most of them do not understand the literal meaning of the poetic text. It is in this particular context, wher e the words are detached from their litteral meaning and become a medium fo r statement, that we will approach the duality of speech and song through a sound editing, where the words are sung, whispered, muttered, recited or s imply said.





Development of turn taking in vocal interaction between mothers and infants aged betwe en 2 and 4 months

RUBI A INFANTI & EBRU YILMAZ (Laboratoire Ethologie, Cognition, Development -EA 3456-, University Paris-West, France)

Infants are known to engage in conversation-like exchanges from the en d of the second month after birth. These ‘protoconversations’ involve both turn-taking and overlapping vocalization. Previous research has shown that the timing of adult-infant turn-taking sequences is close to that of adult verbal conversation. The gap between turns in protoconversational exchange seldom exceeds 500ms. It has also been shown that young infants adjust the quality of their vocalization in response to the quality and timing of adul t vocalization. Furthermore, turn-taking exchanges often involve mutual imi tation of sounds, pitches and melodic contour. We present new evidence of t he timing and temporal organization of turn-taking interaction between moth ers and 2 to 4-month-olds recorded in naturalistic contexts based on a corp us of recordings from 50 French dyads. All of them were recorded in natural istic contexts, in their home, when infants were in a quiet alert state. Th e entire sample comprised a total of 2943 vocalizations of which 748 (25.4% ) were produced by the infants, 1851 (62.9%) were produced by the mothers, and 344 were overlapping vocalizations (11.7%). In all, 489 turns taking se quences were identified. The quality and duration of infant vocalizations d iffered according to whether or not they were produced within a turn-taking sequence. Finally, length and number of turns were highly correlated betwe en mothers and infants vocalizations.

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Sung assemblies or declaimed songs? The samburu soloi sts (Kenya) on the border between political discussion and musical activity

Giordano Marmone — View the presentationGIORDANO MARMONE (CREM-LESC/Universit y Paris West)

Among the Samburu of Ke nya the leaders and the spokesmen of the warriors' age-grade, the so-called larikok, play a fundamental role in both political and musical domains. Th e oratorical skills of which they must be provided to protect the interests of the warriors during the assemblies, core of the Samburu political syste m, also allow them to stand out as main soloists during the singing and dan cing





 

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Ferdinand Brunot and the Archives de la Parole

François Picard — view the presentationFRANÇOIS PICARD (Iremus, Univers ity Paris 4 Sorbonne, France)

The Arc hives de la Parole or Spoken Archives have been founded by the French histo rian of French language and grammarian Ferdinand Brunot at Sorbonne univers ity in 1911. Using a Pathéphone phonograph, he recorded spoken or singing v oices, he classified in main sections: I for “interprètes”, O for “orateurs ”, L for «langues”, D for “dialectes”. Taking it as a solid corpus, we anal yse it using digital tools according to the relation between pitch, intensi ty and timbre, and find it possible through strong descriptors to recover l ocal, culturally meaningful, categories. The question of whether this new c ategorisation could be universal will be asked.sessions. This double form o f authority is based on what, among the Samburu, is considered as one of th e essential features of male leadership: the ability of “dominating the wor ds” in all their forms, both sung and spoken. At the same time, this connec tion between political debate and soloist singing is not focused exclusivel y on the double social role of the larikok. The vocal technique that charac terizes a big part of the Samburu's musical repertoire, in fact, is definab le as a form of speech shaped around the rhythm of the dance. It confers to the melodic contour of the soloist's part the prosodic characteristics of the spoken language, making Samburu choral songs a sort of oratorical confr ontation between soloists, very close, structurally and verbally, to the as semblies' debate scheme. The process of decision-making and the composition of the songs' lyrics lead, in both cases, to the creation of accounts whic h aim to expose opinions and stories based on real events. But if during th e assemblies the speakers' purpose is to use their own charisma for the pol itical administration of the community as representatives of an age-grade's or an age-set's interests, during the singing and dancing sessions the sol oists have the responsibility to stand for their age-group and share with t he listeners the narrative of its collective memory, contributing to assert its presence within the society.

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