Yann Paranthoën

Yann Paranthoën (1935-2005) is an operator of the sound French with the radio on France-Inter and France-Culture. Author of Documentary radiophonic, it is regarded as one of most important in the history of this kind whose development in France is marked out by the names of Alain Trutat, Jose Pivin, Rene Jentet, or Rene Farabet.

Biography

Wire of a Breton Mason stones , this " tailor of sons" heard the radio for the first time during the Occupation: it was Radio London. Initially radar operator in the navy, it is a little by " hasard" that it entered to France-Culture in 1957.

As an author, it produced works impossible to circumvent where continues its design of the restitution of the Réel like sound sculpture and Composition with whole share. " The first of the things to make pass it is the idea that the radio is an expression with share entière" he said. " To enter this expression, it its vie" should be urged there;

Works

Its production does not count far from a hundred titles. Some of these works, fortunately published out of CD, constitute stakes of the history of documentary of creation to the radio:

One Nagra , devoted to famous the Tape recorder of report and cinema invented by Stephan Kudelski
Excentric , it is the history of a cleaning lady, Lucienne Virgoulay, it is also an esthetic history: that of the sounds of the House of the radio the morning.
Paris-Roubaix : sound fresco on the legendary cycle race
the Headlight of Rock-Dover , portrait of the headlight furthest away from the coasts in Europe, the life and the voice of the guards, their remained women with ground
Frightens It , in waiting of the cry of the bird, of the voices French and Breton evoke the legends related to this night raptor.

Matter of a tailor of sound , in this work of discussions with the writer and producer radio operator Alain Veinstein, Yann Paranthoën delivers its reflections on listening of reality and people, on the radiophonic expression and the size of the sounds. A " radiographie" , established by Claude Giovannetti starting from the furnished informations by the INA and France Culture, the chronology of its emissions of 1957 to 2001 recalls. Phonurgia Nova editions. Collection " References of the eighth art". ISBN 2-908325-02-0.

Bonds

a discussion with Yann Paranthoën
a sound homage to Yann Paranthoën on the site of ARTE Radio
Another maintenance + the voice of Yann Paranthoën to the microphone of Jack Vidal collection Phonurgia Nova, 1990.
And still another

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