‘Lecture and book presentation by Charles Duvelle (fr) & Hisham Mayet (usa)’

It is with deep regret that this event at Bozar will have to be re-scheduled for a later time.  Unforeseen circumstances due to the health of Charles Duvelle have unfortunately made it impossible for the event to take place on Saturday.  Sublime Frequencies and Charles Duvelle apologize for any inconvenience.  We hope to find a new date in the near future.

Disques Ocora, a French label dedicated to capturing and publishing the sounds of folkloric culture from around the world, is held in the highest possible regard in the realms of professional and amateur ethnomusicology. Instigated in 1958 by Pierre Schaeffer, the founder of musique concrète, Disques Ocora’s sterling reputation is largely built on composer and musicologist Charles Duvelle’s pioneering field recordings, as well as his now-iconic photographs and graphic design. Charles Duvelle’s work is indisputably one of the most important contributions to the human understanding of the rich biodiversity of our planet’s music and language. In 1977, his field recordings from Benin were selected by Carl Sagan for inclusion on the Voyager Golden Records, which were carried into outer space by the Voyager spacecraft to stand as an example of humanity’s highest musical expressions for the universe’s unknown listeners.Sublime Frequencies’ most ambitious project to date, this 296-page fine-art photography book comprises an exhaustive collection of Charles Duvelle’s field photography from 1959 to 1978, demonstrating that this master musicologist had an equally unerring eye for photography.icologue de génie pour la photographie.