Communication

In the making of music: the project coordinator, the choir director and the researcher”.

The Chantons Ensemble project does not appoint a mediator. However, the act of mediating as an act of dialogue to help, to be reflective or to make a bridge between participants or conceptions intervenes.

With the defined challenges “to involve residents of the neighborhood and the city” and “to promote cultures” within the framework of this amateur vocal training, the project is articulated between various conceptions and tensions taken between a Community Music approach and the top-down structuring of institutional intentions. The musical guarantor is the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Social and Cultural Center of the city of Antony directed by a team of social workers, administered by the politicians of the city embodies the territorial institutional base. Not to mention the singers!

By analyzing the system put in place, the three intermediaries (de)construct their roles as project coordinator, choir director and researcher to reveal their work in situ and ensure that the modes of cooperation or co-development are made intelligible.

Biography

Frédéric Trottier-Pistien holds a doctorate from EHESS (with a specialization in Music, History, Societies), affiliated with the Georg Simmel Center (EHESS/CNRS, UMR8131). His career mixes electronic music, world music and music for society. In 2018, he defended a thesis entitled The worlds of techno in Detroit. Since 2016, he has worked as a consultant-researcher for the Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris, notably within “Traditions musicales du monde”, a survey on musical diversity and interculturality within the Social and Cultural Center of the town of Antony. He is an active member of the Institute for Research on the Worlds of Music (IRMM) and involved in associative action with the creation of CAMUSON (CAntine MUsicale SOlidaire et Nomade) in 2019, in Paris.