Jean-Luc Godard Sound Archives

a conversation with FRANÇOIS MUSY, sound engineer interview and photography by STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI   STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI — Our last trip together was from Rolle, Switzerland, where you and Jean-Luc Godard live, to somewhere in the Cantal region in the middle of France, where all of Godard’s archives are located, hundreds and hundreds of piled-up boxes. FRANÇOIS MUSY — When you get here, you say to your- self: “In this exact location is everything that was in Jean-Luc’s workshop, all stacked up in the middle of nowhere, France.” It’s quite strange. And you feel that it’s good that it is here because it could all have just disappeared. But should they make it a museum? I don’t know. A museum with little signs and stuff? I’m not sure it would be very interesting. STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI — I remember walking along this line of boxes looking for tapes. A part of your life is…