BIBLIOBEEP, digital sound art work

Collection of soundscapes of library “beeps” worldwide

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Librarians worldwide : the interactive sound artwork BIBLIOBEEP needs you !


Among the French National Committee to welcome IFLA next WLIC, Lyon public library is preparing a cultural event inked with the theme of the congress “libraries, citizens, societies: confluence for knowledge” to open the congress for our patrons, and to share our collections and issues with the delegates that will visit our libraries.

We invited the visual artist Zoe Benoit for a research in order to present to our patrons and to the delegates a contemporary art work. It will be the second command as in 2012, for a cultural event linked with our contemporary art collection, we invited her to "take the pulse" of our central library, la Part Dieu library. She realized sound and visual recordings of various places inside the building, both opened to the public such as the entrance hall, reading rooms, circulations, or working places such as the rows of our “silo” storage where more than 1.8 million documents are kept, and of our paternoster machine that distributes books from one floor to another. This first project "Archisony # 3” led to a conference and an exhibition in the library.

Zoe Benoit is currently working on two new projects : a spatial intervention, with in situ intervention in the living spaces and circulation of the library in echo to the library internal preparatory work for the renovation of the building of the Part-Dieu (aged 40) that is to take place from 2019 on. She gives us her artistic perspective on the uses by patrons and her architectural reading of this complex building in a changing neighborhood.

She is also working on a digital sound art work “bibliobeep”, a collection of soundscapes of library “beeps” worldwide.

:: Website « Archisony «#3 » - Zoé Benoit. Artist's residency in central library, la Part Dieu library 2012-2014

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How can you step in? Just record a sound in MP3 format, using your cell phone !


We are looking for one minute recording of background noises at the library loans returns : beep sounds, sounds of books or cd handled, words exchanged...

To properly record the sound, position yourself near the offices where you can hear especially "beeps" machines that record the voice of books and library staff.

Then upload your MP3 file on the site Numelyo, where will be able to listen to your sound and discover all “bibliobeeps” around the world !

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Librarians worldwide : the interactive sound artwork BIBLIOBEEP needs you !

How can you step in ?
Website Zoé Benoit
Artist's residency
Zoé Benoit in central library, la Part Dieu library 2012-2014


Among the French National Committee to welcome IFLA next WLIC, Lyon public library is preparing a cultural event inked with the theme of the congress “libraries, citizens, societies: confluence for knowledge” to open the congress for our patrons, and to share our collections and issues with the delegates that will visit our libraries. more information