Well-being: in search of silence

the silence isit become a luxury? VS’has in any case become Guillaume Voisin’s quest. That day, the audio-naturalist criss-crossed the surroundings of a monastery in Isère. Walkers take a vow of discretion in these places. The place is ideal to install your sound level meter. “What we want is to be able to hear this beautiful nature and what it has to say to us, these little noises that we don’t have the time to hear when there is man doing noise nearby”he confides.

Guillaume Voisin records his sounds because spaces without noise pollution are increasingly rare. In the massif which seems isolated from everything, the passage of a plane even disturbs the silence. But walkers came to enjoy the silence. “Today, we are in a society where there are a lot of noises, images where things go very quickly. It is an act of resistance to go find silence and to have preserved areas”how one of them. In Spain, a couple of rangers enjoy the silence in a park that has obtained the “Quiet Parcs” label thanks to the precise characteristics that the place respects such as a quarter of an hour without human noise at sunrise and sunset. of the sun.