Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies - Volume 10, n°1-2 : Listen to Performance, Listen to Voices, December 2025

This double special Issue dedicated to listening to voices from the perspective of oral history and performance, within the Grenoble ecosystem that is the Performance Lab. From 2022 to 2025, the interdisciplinary community of the IDEX CDP Performance Lab (Grenoble Alpes University) focused its research on listening to performance.

This specifically auditory perspective made it possible to explore the fields of orality, aurality and sound as tools for collecting, analyzing and disseminating a range of performance practices. The importance given to the phenomenon of reception created a dynamic conducive to the exchange of scientific know-how related to various fields of investigation, interviews, recordings and podcasts. It questioned our relationships with articulated speech, writing, reading, but also with translation, composition, improvisation and authorship. It looks at how oral sources transform or reorient our research practices and how sonic attention amplifies the sensitive, emotional or
cognitive quality of our gestures.

In addition to a series of articles, this special issue includes three voicings and two reviews: the first is a review of Noémie Fargier's book Contours de l’attention sonore : Expériences sonores dans le spectacle vivant contemporain (Noémie Fargier, 2024) by Anaïs Tillier, Doctor of Performing Arts associated with UMR LITT&ARTS, and the second, a review of the CRESSON winter school, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG), which took place from 13 to 17 January 2025, by Raymond Jennings, PhD student in geography at Rutgers University (United States).