SOUND FICTIONS
Sound fiction is a form of narrative art that primarily uses sound to create an imaginary world or tell a story. This medium skillfully uses the power of sound to visualize settings, develop characters, and evoke situations in order to evoke real emotions, while giving free rein to the listener's imagination.
I invite you to discover the different sound fictions created for Memento. These stories are invariably inspired by real events to offer you a new way of understanding History, sometimes by revealing little-known episodes from the past or by readapting classic and fundamental works in historical literature. They aim to broaden our understanding of the past, to arouse our curiosity by highlighting often neglected aspects, allowing us to live a narrative experience that combines the real and the imaginary, but always with respect and valorization of authentic history.
Yasmina
In the sad grandeur of these places, she had taken on an overload of fatalism and dreams. Strange, melancholic, among all the girls of her country: such was Yasmina, the Bedouin.
Discover a 7-episode sound fiction inspired by a true story between a young Algerian Bedouin woman and a French soldier during the conquest of Algeria by France.
Trees will bloom in Dachau
Words refuse to describe these horrors, this abyss of suffering in which so many of our people have died, in which so many of our people are still plunged. The beings who were guilty of these crimes, who treated the Jews and the political deportees as one would not treat the most miserable animal, these ignoble beings do not deserve the name of man.
Discover a 5-episode radio drama combining the history of the Holocaust, memory and poetry. A dive into the heart of history after the liberation of the Dachau camp on April 29, 1945, but also into the minds of the survivors.
Forgotten Variations
If you begin to compose, meditate, combine, arrange everything in your head, do not try a piece on the piano before having fixed it in your mind. If the music comes from your inner sense, if you have felt it, it will act in the same way on others.
Discover a 7-episode sound fiction in the form of a musical epistolary series to discover the exciting and tormented life of the prodigious Clara Wieck, an outstanding pianist and composer. The name Clara Schumann has long been associated with that of her husband, the composer Robert Schumann.
Memories of a Hibakusha
Hiroshima had shaken off the gloomy weather of winter to dress itself once again in its most beautiful flora in spring, and to offer its inhabitants its most beautiful colors during the summer. Akiro and Kazuki had an appointment where they had found themselves on August 6, 1945 in the early morning. Obviously, the neighborhood was nothing like the one they had known sixty-eight years ago.
Discover this sound fiction inspired by proven historical facts, the characters and dialogues were imagined from written or oral testimonies of the Hibakushas, international archives and press articles written after the explosion of the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima.
The Righteous
" Stepan, tu seras dans la rue, pendant que Yanek et Alexis guetteront la calèche. Tu passeras régulièrement devant nos fenêtres et nous conviendrons d'un signal. Dora et moi attendrons ici le moment de lancer la proclamation. Si nous avons un peu de chance, le grand-duc sera abattu."
Discover this sound adaptation of the play Les Justes by Albert Camus, first performed on December 15, 1949 in Paris.
