KALERNE is a platform about sound and environment, initiated and curated by Yannick Dauby (homepage).

Here will be presented artistic works, ongoing researches, projects and reflexions about how do we perceive and deal with our acoustic surrounding. These activities are developped in various field of art practices, social and natural sciences, with an interdisciplinary approach.

Many of the activities presented here are related to Taiwan, an amazing playground for sound artists, nature lovers, and people interested into chinese and austronesian cultures.

The sounds and images presented here are not meant to be "rough material" to be sampled and used, but if you feel the need of them, please ask before.
The texts are presented in English and/or French language, some times it may be in traditional Chinese Mandarin, but please forgive us if you find any mistakes in English since it is *not* our native language and propose us some corrections.

The name "Kalerne" is derivated from Calern, a karstic plateau in the Mediterranéan Alps area, dry in appearance but very interesting from an ecological point of vue. Its ground is underlain by caves and underground rivers. On the ground is an astronomical observatory which use interferometry. This techniques is based on the study of two waves creating together another one which will inform about the two original.

We would be interested to share with artists and researchers involved in the topics of Kalerne. Please contact us and give us feedback about our work. But musicians have to remember that we are not a label... 

This website is managed and designed by Yannick Dauby, using open-source Joomla CMS and Coffeerings Lite template. The audio player used here is Dewplayer and requires the installation of Flash plug-in. Last but not least, one should prefer using Firefox web-browser.

Don't hesitate to contact us. We have some recommendations for related books and records. You may also be interested by some unrelated photographies. Or finally leave Kalerne towards other websites.