FR:
Le volume de Sounds From Dangerous Places de Peter Cusack consacré à la zone d’exclusion de Tchernobyl problématise des thèmes transversaux pour la pensée de l’enregistrement, s’articulant autour de certains motifs : perte, deuil, exil, nostalgie trace, empreinte, exposition. Pour étudier ces motifs, l’article se concentre sur les samoseli, ceux qui peuplent illégalement la zone d’exclusion. En rompant avec toute fascination pour l’aspect spectaculaire de Tchernobyl, ce portrait sonore permet de repenser comme un pays ce qui n’est représenté, dans l’imaginaire contemporain, que sous le format de la zone.
EN:
This article examines the volume of Sounds From Dangerous Places by Peter Cusack which is devoted to the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Cusack develops a practice known as audio journalism. However, his work problematizes themes that cut across all aspects of recording theory, revolving around motifs that resonate with this territory in a singular way: loss, mourning, exile, nostalgia, trace, exposure. To explore these motifs, the article focuses on the samoseli, the illegal inhabitants of the exclusion zone. Moving away from any fascination with the spectacular aspect of Chernobyl, the sound portrait proposed by Cusack allows us to rethink as a land what is represented in the contemporary imagination only in the form of a zone.