This year's theme:
"Sound and Mental Health"
Watch the video clip:
Event sponsor:
Sunny Sandhu
Bhoomitra, also known as Dr. Sunny Sandhu, is a singer, musician, music therapist, and art gallery owner from Punjab, India. He lives in St. Paul de Vence, where he teaches art therapy and exhibits Gond tribal art. He holds a degree in modern medicine from India and went on to study classical Indian music and traditional medicine. Thus was born Bhoomitra (Friend of the Earth), who creates music and an atmosphere to take people on a journey into the heart of Mother Nature.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/4ozRNmGVYeY8SkpECxz0gw
He recently won the Beyond Music Award for Songs for the Planet for his work on the track “Si Ghan.”
Goals of Sound Week in the Bouches-du-Rhône Department
The purpose of Sound Week is to stimulate medical, scientific, and societal research on sound and health through a week-long series of conferences, workshops, and artistic performances.
These events are structured around scientific lectures focused on the impact of sound on human health, aimed at the general public, researchers, and healthcare professionals, workshops held in educational and healthcare institutions to raise awareness of the dangers and benefits of sound on health and of careers in sound, and a special issue on sound in the transdisciplinary journal JIMIS or the integrative health journal HEGEL.
The goal is to foster discussions about the impact of sound in its entirety (noise, sounds, and music) on humans and their auditory and mental health, their quality of life, as well as its relationship with the visual (photography, cinema), and olfactory senses, and to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms of sound perception.
The week also features festive events, concerts, film screenings, debates, and experiential workshops.
Partners
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our partners who make the 2027 UNESCO Sound Week in Marseille possible: Aix-Marseille University, the CNRS, the CRPN, SATIS, the La Ciotat Media Library, the City of Aubagne and the Aubagne Conservatory, and the Association for the HEGEL Journal.
We would also like to thank all the volunteers involved in organizing the event, especially all the members of the organizing team: Aurélie Martin, Lucia Volpe, Martin Noriot, and Antonin Rourre behind the camera.
Finally, we thank the speakers and the audience, without whom this wonderful event could not take place.
