Royaumont Abbey 18 & 19 November 2024
« Du quantique au cantique »
CIRMA and the ensemble Organum continue their research on potential therapeutic use of music from late antiquity to Hildegarde of Bingen. This research, which began in 2019 with the University of Rennes 2, takes on a new dimension this year thanks to new scientific partnerships that include physics, biology and acoustics(1).
Last year, the first edition of the symposium «Waves and Worlds» took place at the CY-Cergy University Paris and sought to show a variety of themes on the relationship between Waves and Living, This second edition will take place on 18 and 19 November at the Abbey of Royaumont. The theme of this second edition, “Du quantique au cantique”, will allow us to reflect on how waves, sounds and harmonies work and to understand that all these elements preceded man and that they structured the cosmos beyond our universe.
The first day will begin with a general presentation of the challenges of non-ionizing, electromagnetic and acoustic waves and will continue on the concepts in play and the basic themes: principles of quantum mechanics, principles of wave physics applied to the development of the Living, principle of the duality of wave-particle, principle of form waves, principle of scalar waves and harmonic range principle as well as the mathematical tools used to work on these concepts.
“Waves and Organs »
This day will end with an extraordinary sound experience on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of Royaumont. Marcel Pérès will make heard the unsuspected sound potentialities of this instrument invented by a Greek engineer from Alexandria in 250 BC. From the raw sound waves generated by the pipes of the instrument, gradually will be revealed how these sounds can aggregate to generate a musical verb that crosses the centuries generating new forms in constant mutation.
The second day of the Symposium will illustrate how concepts of the universe are adapted to the behaviour of living things (man, animal, plant), allowing us to explore some of the potential effects of music on well-being, communication, the signaling and health of members in a biome. Several disciplines will be interested in these aspects (musical archaeology, musicology, music therapy, biochemistry, molecular biology, physics, medicine etc. P. Ferrandiz and V. Prevost (Genodics) will present the tool PWAT (Programme France Relance GenodiCY) of converting sound sequences into molecular sequences.
The Organizing Committee:
Olivier Gallet (CY-Cergy Paris-University)
Géraldine Gaudefroy-Demombynes (University Rennes 2 and CY-Cergy Paris-University)
Pedro Ferrandiz (enterprise Genodics)
Marcel Pérès (CIRMA, Organum Ensemble )
Sylvain Perrot (CNRS Strasbourg)
Hélène Derieux (CNRS-Iremus Paris University)
(1) HVB Project© : project labelled Maison des Sciences de L’Homme de Bretagne «AEEHmusic: exploration of an archeoacoustic model of liturgical song (Hildegarde de Bingen) in the context of the European musics of the first millennium» https://www.mshb.fr/projet/aeehmusic
