About
Who is Sonya ?
Sonya is a sound creation and production studio based in Strasbourg.
Sonya creates immersive and colourful content, with a cinematographic approach to sound processing and original musical creations.
Sonya unfolds a whole world of sound, sensitive and plural, in which to dive and sharpen our imaginations.
Sonya is aimed at adults, adolescents and children.
Sonya brings together artists and professionals, mainly from the Grand Est region, working in the fields of sound creation, writing, radio, theatre, visual arts, music, journalism and digital cultures.
Sonya is part of a lively, local economy driven by local partnerships and the desire to promote a territory, its history and its inhabitants.
Sonya travels through the public space, sounds it out and gives it back during events for and with the public: sound walks, listening sessions, meetings, workshops, etc.
Why fiction?
Although the development of podcasts is booming, fiction remains an underdeveloped genre in France.
Sonya aims to develop the audio fiction podcast by focusing on the inventiveness of productions, the diversity of collaborations, the desire to experiment and the renewal of writing. The recordings are made in real conditions as soon as possible, not in a studio. Often, the productions are based on existing facts and places to better resonate with our imaginations. Fiction is inspired by and plays with reality: it questions it, teases it, upsets it, sublimates it.
Partnerships
This summer, Marine Angé and Céline Bellanger created "Sur les sentiers de l'été" , a series of 6 podcasts as part of the "C'est mon Patrimoine" programme, at the châteaux of Talcy, Fougère-sur-Bièvre and Châteaudun, commissioned by La Comédie des Anges and supported by the Centre des Monuments nationaux and the DRAC Centre-Val de Loire.
Sonya is a project supported by the [Fluxus] incubation scheme (https://www.fluxus-incubateur.fr/) run by Bliiida, the DRAC Grand Est and the Agence Culturelle d'Alsace (promo 2023).
The podcast series Fins du monde (seasons 1 and 2) is co-produced and broadcast in partnership with RTBF - Émission Par Ouï-Dire.
The École du Théâtre National de Strasbourg is supporting Sonya by offering its students in the acting section the chance to take part in our sound creations.
References and press review
- April 2024 - Report in the Rund Um programme on France 3 Grand Est about the Horisch podcast
- April 2024 - Column in the Magazine de l'Eurométropole de Strasbourg about our podcast Horisch.
- February 2024 - Presentation of our approach and activities in Alsace Destination Tourisme's Mensuelle de l'Innovation.
- February 2024 - Chronicle on France Bleu Elsass about the Horisch podcast
- December 2023 - Interview in the Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace about the Fluxus incubator
- December 2023 - Article in the Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace about the Horisch podcast
- March 2022 - Speech at the international conference "Portraits sonores de pays": Audio fiction in the public space: a sensory and immersive experience_ by Christophe Deleu
- January 2022 - Participation in Longueur d'Ondes, the radio and listening festival in Brest: listening session and meeting "La fiction dans la tête de ou à travers la porte entrouverte" - Listen by clicking here
- October 2021 - Article in Strasbourg Magazine on the sound walk in the Parc Albert Schweitzer
- August 2021 - Article in Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace about the sound walk in the Parc Albert Schweitzer
- May 2021 - Paper presented at the colloquium "Le désir de belle radio aujourd'hui/la fiction": Fins du monde et les formats radiophoniques actuels de la fiction by Marine Angé and Christophe Deleu
- March 2019 - Soirée d'écoute Panorama de la fiction radiophonique de la SACD : invitation and broadcast of the episode "Tendre est la nuit" from the series Fins du monde (season 1)
- August 2018 - Article by Studio TJP on Fins du monde (season 1)
- January 2017 - Podcast from Syntone, the review of radio news and criticism about the series Fins du monde (season 1)