2018 La Scam : Nuit de la radio La Scam : Nuit de la radio
AN EXPERIENCE OF COLLECTIVE LISTENING
Friday, 24 at 9:00 pm in Saint-Laurent-sous-Coiron
Please note: accessible only upon registration at the festival welcome desk, limited availability.
Free shuttle bus from the Lussas Church: 7:15 pm, 7:45 pm, 8:00 pm, 8:30 pm.
La Scam, in partnership with the Ina and Radio France, invite you to discover the audio programme proposed by Karine Le Bail.
DAYLIGHT FALLS, THE NIGHT RISES
“Night takes a step. Things of shadows will live.” (Victor Hugo)
“There is no more night”, astronomers cry out in alarm. The celestial vault, conquered by the artificial light of our cities, is ever more hidden to our eyes. “There is no more night”, say the sleepless, as Macha Béranger affectionately dubbed them: the radio which crept into households in the cusp of night has deserted the airwaves. From one night to the other, between erasure and disappearance, thus can be re-established a certain way of seeing the world – one in which the day, losing its advantage, allows the night to reverse the order of things and open up a space for the indistinct, the indeterminate, the possible.
For a long time, I have trolled through the sound archives, listening for the sounds of the falling day, the night arising. Here, Duras is the interviewer of dreams, Cendrars, the nocturnal composer of a symphony of the world’s noises, and Bachelard, a specialist in “unconscious values”. We meet a starry sky, a midnight virgin, an insomniac singer, a medium, her ghosts, and soon the “trembled light of dawn”. There open up radio alcoves where voices speak and respond through long silences – silence is less frightening at night.
Programme compiled by Karine Le Bail, historian, radio author.
With the help of Annie Lauzzana, Ina archivist, Frédéric Fiard, editor/mixer, Benoît Delbecq, title music, and Camille Gabarra, visuals and design.
1H14 OF SOUND EXCERPTS TO BE LISTENED TO WITH HEADPHONES.
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1 / Une nuit dans les archives
Shut up for a night of 1952 in the Club d’essai, a small cubbyhole of radio creation tucked right in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the travelling poet Blaise Cendrars composed a “Symphony of the World’s Noises”.
1952, 2’22’’ © Ina
Rythmes et bruits du monde par Blaise Cendrars
Producer: Blaise Cendrars
Director: Georges Godebert
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2 / Du crépuscule jusqu’à l’aube, la nuit prend son temps
Jean-Christophe Bailly unfolds the times of the night, that “living being”.
1996, France Culture, 1’38’’ © Ina
ACR* – Le Sens de la nuit
Producer: Petr Kral
Director: Jean-François Artero
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3 / Chanter et s’endormir
The Hadza, hunter-gatherers from the north of Tanzania, are one of the oldest nomadic tribes in Africa. During the evening, tired from the day’s work, they sing before falling asleep.
1990, France Culture, 2’25’’ © Ina
ACR* – Une journée entière chez les Hadza (Tanzanie)
Producer: Kaye Mortley
Directors: Roz Cheney and Phillip Ulman
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4 / Voûte étoilée
The astrophysicist André Brahic recounts an escapade in the desert, far from the cities “lit up like the day from dusk to dawn”.
2009, France Culture, 1’15’’ © Ina
Hors champs
Producer: Laure Adler
Director: Brigitte Bouvier
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5 / Voici l’heure…
A fragment from William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, read by François Chaumette.
1954, Chaîne Nationale (RTF), 1’ © Ina
Les Nuits décousues
Producer: Jean-Jacques Morvan
Director: Alain Trutat
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6 / Les enfants n’y croient pas, mais ils en rêvent
Marguerite Duras liked to think that “childhood is a time apart, which does not precede the age of adulthood. It’s a kind of prehistory, closed, having no communication with the other.” In 1957, children told her some stories.
1967, France Culture, 2’45’’ © Ina
Marguerite Duras : enfances
Producer: Jacques Floran
Director: Georges Godebert
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7 / Au meurtre ! Réveillez-vous !
Paula Dehelly savagely attacks Michel Bouquet in this adaptation of The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins, a nineteenth-century British writer with a strong penchant for opium.
1951, Chaîne Parisienne (RTF), 4’26’’ © Ina
Les Lundis de Paris – Cinq histoires étranges
Author: Wilkie Collins
Directors: Ange Gilles and Georges Godebert
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8 / Le droit de rêver
What if, like Gaston Bachelard, we asked the “authorities in charge of the radio to allow unconscious values a half an hour a day”?
1949, Chaîne Nationale (RDF), 2’ © Ina
Rêverie et radio – conférence d’André Bachelard au Centre d’études radiophoniques du Club d’essai
Producer: Jean Lescure
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9 / Hypnos et Oneiros
One ties, the other frees: the psychologist Tobie Nathan speaks of sleep and dreams.
2011, France Culture, 1’09’’ © Ina
L’Atelier intérieur – Le Baiser
Producer: Aurélie Charon
Director: Thomas Dutter
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10 / En fermant les portes des yeux
In 2006, Hélène Cixous wrote a fictional story on dreaming for the series Le « Je » radiophonique.
2006, France Culture, 0’38’’ © Ina
ACR* – Ceci est un exercice de rêve
Producers: Hélène Cixous and Jean-Jacques Lemètre
Director: Lionel Quantin
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11 / Paris by night, 22h28
The night as seen from a police station.
1970, France Culture, 0’13’’ © Ina
ACR* – Noctivague, Noctiluque, Paris, Nyctalope, Noctambule, Paris
Producers: René Farabet, Alain Jouffroy, José Pivin, Harold Portnoy, Alain Sotto
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12 / La lumière est éteinte ? Merci
The sound engineer Daniel Deshays remembers the programme Théâtre de l’étrange on the station Inter Variétés, which he listened to lying on his bed as an adolescent.
2006, France Culture, 1’14’’ © Ina
Surpris par la nuit – À l’écoute
Producer: Andrea Cohen
Director: Manoushak Fashahi
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13 / Enfin tranquille
A Visitor lets himself be locked into a mausoleum so that he can admire, alone, an embalmed Figure. The beginning of a strange night.
1966, Inter Variétés (ORTF), 2’34’’ © Ina
Théâtre de l’étrange – Le Personnage
adaptation de la comédie en un acte d’Andrée Chedid (Art & Comédie, 1998)
The Visitor/The Figure: Michel Bouquet
Director: Alain Barroux
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14 / Ce que la nuit développe
From the mythical programmes of Nuits magnétiques (from 1978 onwards) to the final episode of Du jour au lendemain on July 4, 2014, the producer Alain Veinstein was that magnificent voice “between two days”, cultivating blanks and silences: “Words one listens to are words that search, that constantly invent themselves as they move forward.”
1989, France Culture, 2’27’’ © Ina
Du jour au lendemain
Producer: Alain Veinstein
Guest: Pierre Pachet for his book La Force de dormir, Éditions Gallimard
Director: Bernard Treton
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15 / Esprit, es-tu là ?
Did you know? At the Maison de la Radio in Paris, there are crowds of wandering souls... The medium Patricia Darré reveals to us their existence.
2011, France Culture, 3’06’’ © Ina
Les Passagers de la nuit
Report: Charlotte Bienaimé
Producer: Thomas Baumgartner
Director: Gilles Davidas
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16 / La Vierge de minuit
During the 1994-95 season, Kriss presented L’Heure du Krissme each Saturday from midnight to one am. With her “favourite vampire”, the writer Jacob Dellacqua, Kriss dared everything because “after midnight, neither seen nor caught”.
1994, France Inter, 3’10’’ © Ina
L’Heure du Krissme
Producer: Kriss Graffiti
Director: Michèle Bedos
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17 / Merm-érotique
For a long time, the nights of France Inter were not preserved. We owe to certain “test days”, which recorded twenty-four hours of broadcast on poor quality tapes, the trace of night time programmes such as À la nuit, la nuit, transmitted each evening from midnight to one am but which only lasted one season (1987-88) – it was probably too licentious.
1987, France Inter, 1’55’’ © Ina
À la nuit, la nuit
Producers: Paula Jacques, Daniel Mermet
Director: Christian Rose
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18 / Paris by night, 0h35
1970, France Culture, 0’12’’ © Ina
ACR* – Noctivague, Noctiluque, Paris, Nyctalope, Noctambule, Paris
Producers: René Farabet, Alain Jouffroy, José Pivin, Harold Portnoy, Alain Sotto
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19 / Fernande chez Artur
In 1965, José Artur burst onto France Inter with his Pop club from eleven pm to one am live from the Maison de la Radio’s Bar Noir, which soon became a rallying point for nighthawks. One night in 1972, Georges Brassens brought along a song he had just composed.
1972, France Inter, 4’44’’ © Ina
Le Pop Club
Producer: José Artur
Performer: Georges Brassens
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20 / Route de nuit
Conceived in 1955 by Roland Dhordain on Paris Inter, the ancestor of France Inter, for car and truck drivers, the service programme Route de nuit became in 1957 the first twenty-four-hour radio programme, accompanying night workers from one to six am. Roland Dhordain and the presenter Bernard Marçay recount their memories to the microphone of Claude Villers, another night bird.
1981, France Inter, 2’55’’ © Ina
Il était une fois la radio – Speaker, un drôle de métier
Producers: Roland Dhordain and Claude Villers
Director: Monique Desbarbat
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21 / Les Routiers sont sympa
“What I represent? The companion of their solitude, their buddy, their brother. I carry the tattoo ‘loneliness fixer’ indelibly marked on my skin”, said Max Meynier, presenter of this cult programme on RTL, famous to the point of being taken hostage one night in 1974.
2010, France Culture, 2’35’’ © Ina
Mégahertz – La Radio la nuit
Producer: Joseph Confavreux
Director: Laurent Paulré
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22 / Paris by night, 1h17
1970, France Culture, 0’14’’ © Ina
ACR* – Noctivague, Noctiluque, Paris, Nyctalope, Noctambule, Paris
Producers: René Farabet, Alain Jouffroy, José Pivin, Harold Portnoy, Alain Sotto
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23 / Le jour on entend, la nuit on écoute
In 1994-95, on the Swiss public station RTS Couleur 3, the writer Félicie Dubois presented Les Dégradés, a nightly programme of radio creation broadcast from one to five am. Back in France, she proposed the idea of the programme to several radio stations, but got no answer.
2010, France Culture, 1’59’’ © Ina
Mégahertz – La Radio la nuit
Producer: Joseph Confavreux
Director: Laurent Paulré
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24 / Dans un studio-boeing
As a guest on Jean-Louis Foulquier’s programme Pollen, which was broadcast duplex from La Rochelle, a very gay and mutinous Macha Béranger described the ceremony before being able to settle in behind the microphone.
1989, France Inter, 1’42’’ © Ina
Pollen
Producers: Jean-Louis Foulquier, Sylvie Coulomb and Didier Varrod
Director: Gilbert Aumond
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25 / Allô Macha
On the eve of Macha Béranger’s first programme on France Inter in 1977, the author Victoria Thérame wrote: “And there, from the radio, a highly languid, laughing, much in love, just a dash airport-style lady’s voice emerged. [...] Macha will become a national asset.” The programme was withdrawn in 2006, a prelude to the serial closure of night-time radio.
1981, France Inter, 4’37’’ © Ina
Allô Macha
Producer: Macha Béranger
Director: François-Xavier Andreys
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26 / Recevoir, la nuit
Jean-Louis Foulquier nostalgically remembered his Studio de nuit (1975-77). In his memoirs, he described the extraordinary radio cabaret for nighthawks, conceived as an “improvised carte blanche”: “Each night the destination was unknown, dangerous, the helmsmen and apprentice seamen interchangeable. [...] No rehearsals, no sound checks, and technicians forced to enter the fray of live broadcast without a safety net. This bubble of nocturnal liberty, this oasis of radio invention, functioned because everything was allowed. Everything could be said, everything could be done.” Here, with his comrade Gérard Manset.
1983, France Inter, 1’23’’ © Ina
C’est la nuit : Gérard Manset
Producer: Jean-Louis Foulquier
Director: Patrice Cresta
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27 / Nuit blanche
There are vocal catastrophes which, at night, become sublime. When Christophe and Vincent Lindon “sing” Les Mots bleus.
2015, France Inter, 1’40’’ © Ina
Nuit blanche – Vincent Lindon
Producer: Pascale Clark
Director: Stéphane Le Guennec
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28 / La lumière tremblée des réverbères
In Paris, starting in the second half of the eighteenth century, the first street lamps made the night, true enough, less dark, but no less disconcerting. Pierre Mac Orlan, a novelist of interlope worlds, peopled with suspicious characters and foggy wharfs, knew something about this.
1955, Chaîne Nationale (RTF), 1’15’’ © Ina
Souvenirs de la nuit
Producers: Nino Frank and Pierre Mac Orlan
Director: Guy Delaunay
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29 / Les cons dorment
“At night, people stay awake so that they can be left in peace”, noted philosopher Michaël Foessel. And so Léo Ferré stayed awake at night.
1993, 0’33’’ © Ina
Pollen – Léo Ferré
Producer: Jean-Louis Foulquier
Serial by Jean Chouquet
Director: Maïté Adam
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30 / Attendre que la nuit…
... to become our confidant.
Quote from the collection Les Amis inconnus by Jules Supervielle (1934) © Éditions Gallimard
1988, France Culture, 3’30’’ © Ina
Du jour au lendemain, with Philippe S. Hadengue, for his book Petite chronique des gens de la nuit dans un port de l’Atlantique Nord, éditions Maren Sell et Cie.
Producer: Alain Veinstein
Director: Bernard Treton
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31 / Au bord de l’épuisement, tout s’éveille
At the heart of night, between three and five am, the night nurse watches and reassures. Anne Perraut Soliveres loves her profession.
2005, France Culture, 3’02’’ © Ina
Surpris par la nuit – Noir de lune
Producer: Simone Douek
Director: Anna Szmuc
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32 / Tout à coup vacilla un léger souffle blanc de lumière
A voice, seeming to groan from beyond the grave reads with slow diction a poem by Jean Tardieu. It is Alain Cuny.
1968, France Culture, 2’06’’ © Ina
L’Harmonie imitative – Jean Tardieu
Producer: Jean-Pierre Colas
Piece: Cauchemar, taken from the collection Accents by Jean Tardieu (Éditions Gallimard, 1939)
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33 / L’aube chemine…
The poet Luc Bérimont has produced a number of programmes for radio. In this 1957 fiction, he takes us into twelfth-century Paris, on the construction site of Notre-Dame, a place where “the night is as fixed as an eye”.
1957, Chaîne Parisienne (RTF), 0’51’’ © Ina
La nuit n’a pas sommeil
Producer: Luc Bérimont
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34 / … Et l’on entre dans la banalité, du jour
The writer André Beucler evokes the passage from night to day.
1969, France Culture, 1’30’’ © Ina
Paroles de nuit
Producer: Harold Portnoy
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35 / Dans le métro
A report on night work in the metro, from waiting on the platform for the last train to the arrival of the first in the morning.
1947, 0’51’’ © Ina
Nuit blanche : danger de mort
Producer: Flavien Monod
Director: René Guignard
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36 / C’est l’heure de se lever
On radio, people arise too, often at six am, sometimes at five... On France Culture for a long time it was at seven am, with François Raynaud’s indispensable Réveil musculaire until 1973.
1963, Chaîne Parisienne (RTF), 1’28’’ © Ina
Le Réveil musculaire
Producer: François Raynaud
*ACR : Atelier de Création Radiophonique