Castles of Alsace, Saverne region

Work in progress

Elisa Hahn2026-01-27T10:24:50+01:00

Le Bruissement des pierres

Photo: ©Gaëtan Gromer

A new collection focusing on Alsace’s fortified heritage

Details

Free

Work in progress – Soon available

Places

The ruins of Haut-Barr and Grand-Geroldseck castles

Each sound fiction in this collection invites an author to take a unique look at a fortified heritage site, engaging with its history, legends, and past and present uses.
Designed to be listened site, these creations offer a sensitive reinterpretation of the sites, where fiction becomes a means of exploring what the stones, landscapes, and silences continue to convey.

The first two episodes of the collection are currently in production and will be released in 2026.
They have been entrusted to Sebastian Dicenaire and Amélie Lucas-Gary, each working from an iconic castle in the Pays de Saverne region, with their own unique writing approach.

A sound fiction by Sebastian Dicenaire — Haut-Barr Castle

For Haut-Barr Castle, Sebastian Dicenaire takes on a particularly dense site and explores its accumulated layers, focusing on the areas left untouched by official history.

Drawing inspiration from contemporary archaeological technologies, the author imagines a form of sound archaeology capable of releasing and making audible the echoes buried within the stone.

A sound fiction by Amélie Lucas-Gary — Grand-Geroldseck Castle

For the Grand-Geroldseck Castle, Amélie Lucas-Gary imagines a sound fiction that questions the way stories are transmitted and reinvented.
Based on a contemporary visit to the site, the writing creates a dialogue between documented history and imagination, bringing together the need to understand the past and the need to tell stories.

Two sound fictions will soon be available to listen to on your smartphone. To access them, download the GOH app and follow the instructions!

Crédits

Text: Amélie Lucas-Gary et Sebastian Dicenaire
Realisation: Gaëtan Gromer Production: Les Ensembles 2.2 Partner: Alsace Destination Tourisme

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Artists

Born in 1979, Sebastian Dicenaire is a sound poet and creator of radio fiction. He has published several works of contemporary poetry (Héros-Limite, Clou dans le fer, etc.) and regularly performs sound pieces on stage. His radio creations, which blend poetry and science fiction, mythology and technology, addictive storytelling and sound experimentation, have won awards at numerous festivals (New York Radio Awards, Phonurgia Nova Prize, SGDL Prize, etc.).

After studying history and cinema at the Sorbonne, Amélie Lucas-Gary graduated from the École Nationale de la Photographie d’Arles in 2009. Since then, her practice has evolved, and she has published three novels: Grotte (2014) published by Christophe Lucquin Éditeur, Vierge (2017) and Hic (2020), published by Éditions du Seuil. The latter was written during a writing residency in New Zealand. More recently, she published Féticheuses, an invitation from the Fléchettes collection of Sun/sun editions to take one of the images from the Albert Kahn Museum’s autochrome collection. She regularly works with artists on catalogs, exhibitions, and performances.

Composer, sound artist, and producer Gaëtan Gromer, born in 1978, lives and works in Strasbourg. He is also artistic director of Ensembles 2.2 (a sound creation studio particularly active in the public sphere) and a member of the executive committee and board of directors of HACNUM (national network for hybrid arts and digital cultures). He regularly engages his work in dialogue with other disciplines and has worked with Maria La Ribot, Valérie Manteau, Hélène Gaudy, Etienne Fanteguzzi, Sebastian Dicenaire, Eve Risser, Lucie Taïeb, Clara Olivares, LNLO, Samuel and Léo Henry, luvan, Zahra Poonawala, Stéphane Perger, Espèce de collectif, and others.

Support

The DRAC Grand-Est and Région Grand Est

Laiterie District, Strasbourg

Life stories, The imaginary, Work in progress

Elisa Hahn2026-01-22T14:52:13+01:00

Les Archives du Vent (Archives of the wind)

Picture: ©Matëo Granger

Exploration . Fragments . Memory

Details

Free

From 10 years old

Interactive soundwalk – Variable duration (average duration 25-30 min)

Location

Laiterie District, Strasbourg

Starting point : Start wherever you want in the Laiterie district

Organiser

Festival Ososphère

“There are fragments that resist the logic of the narrative.

Bugs, so to speak.

They reappear constantly, here and elsewhere.”

Gaëtan Gromer

Les Archives du Vent (Archives of the wind) is a geolocated and interactive sound fiction that transforms public spaces into territories of exploration.

In a perfectly calibrated world, a mysterious wind deposits voices that cling to walls, trees, and sidewalks. They reveal fragments of life that sketch out ordinary gestures, as useless as they are necessary.

With Les Archives du Vent, the path is unclear; it navigates between attempts and renunciations. You choose everything: your path, the order in which you listen, what you keep or let go, how long it lasts.

Each walk creates a different archive.

The meaning is not revealed immediately; it is constructed as you walk. And what cannot be resolved is nevertheless inhabited.

Available on your phone starting February 20. Download the GOH App and start exploring !

Credits

Text and realisation: Gaëtan Gromer

Music: Gaëtan Gromer et Antoine Spindler

Voices: Fred Cacheux, Etienne Fanteguzzi, Stéphanie Felix, Pauline Leurent, Logan Person, Marie Seux

Enregistrements : Innervision

Interviews: Juliette Husson

Production: Les Ensembles 2.2

Partner: Festival Ososphère

Acknowledgements: Residentds of the Laiterie district

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The artists

Gaëtan Gromer – Composer, artist and sound producer born in 1978, he lives and works in Strasbourg. Artistic director of Ensembles 2.2 (a sound creation studio particularly active in the public sphere) and member of the executive committee and board of directors of HACNUM (national network for hybrid arts and digital cultures), he regularly engages his work in dialogue with other disciplines. He has worked with Maria La Ribot, Valérie Manteau, Hélène Gaudy, Etienne Fanteguzzi, Sebastian Dicenaire, Eve Risser, Lucie Taïeb, Clara Olivares, LNLO, Samuel and Léo Henry, luvan, Zahra Poonawala, Stéphane Perger, Espèce de collectif, among others.
He is the winner of the 2012 Imagina Atlantica European Digital Arts Award, and his albums [fri:z] and Noise Level are respectively among the ten best ambient albums of 2014 according to the French webzine SWQW and the ten best drone albums of 2016 according to the American webzine A Closer Listen.

Antoine Spindler – Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory in the classes of Ana Haas (violin) and Claude Ducroq (viola), as well as at the University of Strasbourg in musicology, Antoine Spindler studied at Ircam, Fastlane, PML and elsewhere, specialising in electroacoustic and mixed music. He teaches in the Electroacoustic Creation and Performance class at the Conservatoire and at the Académie Supérieure de Musique-Hear in Strasbourg. He currently plays in the Jafta trio, with whom he released the album Traces, and in the Svië duo, with whom he created the album Port Data. His experiences have allowed him to collaborate with various ensembles and musicians (Linéa, Live Animated Orchestra, the Ethos quartet, Plurium, Clara Olivares, Eve Risser, etc.) as well as with various authors (Hélène Gaudy, Jean Fauque, Valérie Manteau, Sébastien Dicenaire, Lucie Taïeb, etc.).

Supports

With the support of the City of Strasbourg, the CNL – Centre National du Livre and the DRAC Grand-Est