Éric
Cordier : La
Cité du Bruit (3-inch
CDr / Ui-CD016 — 7€)
Excerpt(mp3/192kpbs)
'La
Cité du Bruit'naviguates
to the limits of silence and phenomenal noise with a permanent tension.
The composition was born from the confrontation of fighter-bomber
planes - making 'noise' to be heard in all its power, excess and
chaos - with the regular nature of iterative sound phenomenons,
such as the charging/discharging of electrons inside the condensers
of a microphone, or the steady or quickening crackle of aquatic
insects.
This
piece brings together elements contrasting in structure and nature.
The displays of the Bourget's air show (recorded from 19th to 21st
June, 2009) provide with a profusion of unstructured sounds with
such an intensity you would feel it through your body. In contrast,
extremely amplified micro-phenomenons such as the aquatic insects
recorded in the Bois de Vincennes in (during the summer of 2009),
bring, with their simplicity, a very musical articulation. Everything
here is about interweaving contrasting elements, but which eventually
become a structure.
'La
Cité du Bruit' was created on the 22nd of November,
2009, during the 'Kunst' program of Austrian national radio ORF,
as part of a series of broadcats curated by the labelGruenrekorder.
V/a
: Dérives (CD
/ Ui-CD015 — 9€)
Francisco
López
Pali Meursault
Helena Gough
Maksims Shentelevs
Tô
Rui Costa
Jgrzinich & Murmer
Excerpts(mp3/192kpbs)
Helena
Gough, kwh
Maksims
Shentelevs, 16-36
Rui
Costa, Touch Space
First,
there was the desire of an ambitious record, then to work with these
artists, to bring them together. Unavoidably, a rule had to be set,
and everybody had enough taste to bend it somewhat.
Francisco López, John Grzinich &
Murmer, Rui Costa, Pali Meursault,
Tô, Maksims Shentelevs and
Helena Gough have given us pieces built from an
active listening of their own environment.
Beyond a gallery of subjective pictures of the sound landscape,
something different emerged: maybe the very specific way an ear
plugs to the world, and makes the energy flow between the outside
and the inside.
It won't be a surprise, then, if sometimes the landscape comes out
as an abstract form, discretely magnetic or radically electric.
The pretext of active listening possibly becoming, for the listener,
an approach to the activity of listening : we don't just hear what
each artist has listened to, we also hear the listening itself,
its switching on, and that's maybe what makes most noise.
The
second volume of the ambiances sonores drifts in Africa, Europe
and Asia. a strong animal thematic has emerged almost in spite
of us, as an echo to the recent disc of Yannick Dauby.
A
succession of sound captures sonores from Champassak to the
marché de l'estacade, by : Dominique Dereymez, Arnaud
Billet, Manolie Soysouvanh, Jean-Marcel Busson, Juliet Quinn
& Pali Meursault.
The
long-awaited record of Cawa Sorix could be define as "sound
poetry", but it certainly exceed that label, as it eyes
up to hand-crafted plunderphonic and amusing cut-up. Made with
two cassette players, one of which.
Yannick
Dauby | "Trois phonographies de présences animales
en milieu urbain" (Mini-cdr / UI - 011
— 5€)
Yannick
Dauby has set out his microphones for a close listening to the
world. The animal pretext allows him to reveal the organic and
musical unity of some everyday soundscapes.
Birds
and cars, motors and insects let their identifiablke aspects
disappears and we come to hear music where we were listening
to the city.
Juliet
Quinn's work is a kind of intimate plunderphonic : he passes his
friends or collegues through the mill of is computer and rubs
his guitar with the objects he can found on the floor of his room...
The
outcome is an uniclassifiable comic-book like diary, and an incredible
chain of top-seller summer hits.
Frédéric
Dutertre tried the alpine countryside by sticking his microphones
on cables, wires, enclosures, trees … picking up wind frequencies,
abstract vibrations and interferences.
A close listening of the world conducted with curiosity. The piece
takes the shape of a specific phenomenon study, while music and
poetry seem to settle down themselves.
Pali
Meursault continues his search of raw sound materials, at walking
motion in an industrial environment. Anti-promenade, anti-documentary
in which the usual points of reference and the effects of an alienating
industrial sound slowly turns into pure vibrations.
The Nappe duo follows an electronical exploration without falling
into the traps of improvisation nor the trendy laptop attitude.
A really radical computer music that does not fit in the usual
compartments. A raw music linking together numerical technology
and poetry while cleaning up loudspeakers.
The
Ironfinger 1000[Out
of print] (Mini-cdr / Ui - 003)
Entre
blues lo-fi, performance d'homme orchestre et folk-songs, l'univers
de The Ironfinger 1000 est plus fait de citations que de simples
influences. Un collage de références et d'impressions
qui s'organisent comme une petite histoire de 20 minutes (…)
"The
drift is a technique of quick way through different atmospheres.
The concept of drifting is indistinctly linked with the acknowledgement
of a psychogeographical effect along with the assertion of a constructive-playing
behaviour, which is totally conflicting it with the usual notions
of travelling or strolling." ( Guy Debord, Théorie
de la dérive in IS n°2 ).
Pali
Meursault works from direct sound captures. A search for the raw
material of sound and a study of rhythms and cycles - determined
or random - in urban or industrial environments.
Zetein is a drone constituted of the sounds of a train
and a blowing engine … The microphone reveals an unusual
sound field, abstract and hypnothic, set up in multiples stratums,
detailed textures and vibrations.
