♫ Écouter la musique de la nature en Livradois-Forez
Did you know that trees and plants are capable of musical composition? The music of nature. In Livradois-Forez, on the Chemin des Papetiers, you discover a world that looks fantastic even though it is indeed real. Indeed, by listening to an electric current on either side of a stem or a leaf, humans are able to hear the sounds produced by the flora. Ready, ready to travel in an enchanting floral and leafy universe?
Botanical music therapy is experienced in Ambert
Maybe you know the papermakers path, this rather family hike in Ambert starting from the hollow of the valley, in Valeyres, and in the direction of the paper mills of Livradois-Forez? 7 kilometers long, it forms a short tour of the oldest places of tissue paper manufacturing. Recently reinvented with new signage, the path offers the opportunity to introduce your ears to botanical music therapy. Because like rag paper is born from fabric and fabric is born from cotton. This is how, thanks to plants, Ambert was one of the biggest paper-making towns. A great way to pay homage to them.
Botanical music therapy is a fairly recent movement that highlights the virtues on our well-being of the sound produced by plants and trees. For Renaud Rulhman, researcher in phytoneurology, it allows “a reharmonization of the living and [therefore] of our organism”. An exciting program possible thanks to a small machine inspired by the legendary lie detector from spy movies. Renaud thus captured the sounds emitted in the heart of plants. Transcribed and transformed into music, these become audible to the human ear. The music of nature. A wonder.
The music of nature on the way to the papermakers
Recently, the Chemin des Papetiers d'Ambert has been refurbished. Using QR codes, the walk is immersive and poetic. The short hike, punctuated with stages, enhances the water cycle, the words of the trees or the paper filigrees, the imprint of man. The QR codes refer to 360° videos where luminous shapes enchant the walk. Vincent Delesvaux, photographer and videographer then uses the photographic technique of "light painting" to "recreate the world a little".
Vincent illuminates with the lamp, at night, the material. And created “poetic capsules where the real meets […] the moon that lights up the decor”. It thus tells a story, in connection with the surrounding nature. Finally, each video was enriched by the music of nature, captured by Renaud Rulhmann. This is then a first in France. A path of great poetry to discover absolutely in Ambert. Feel free to dive into it.