Philippe Petit took up on a truly epic endeavour – both Dante Aligheri’s Divine Comedy and Gustave Dore illustrations for this classic work have been an inspiration for his newest work beautifully released as a double cd by Portuguese label Crónica based in Oporto, Portugal. It is a long set of narrative pieces which Philippe …
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Ten album jest drugą częścią serii, w której badam procesy usuwania dźwięków z ich oryginalnego kontekstu i cięcia ich na małe kawałki. W ten sposób dźwięki zostają oddzielone od swojego źródła i tym samym oderwane od tego, co pierwotnie reprezentowały. To, co jest dla mnie interesujące i stanowi wyzwanie w tym projekcie, to znalezienie obszaru, w którym reprezentacja znika, a dźwięk staje się abstrakcją. Gdzie to jest, zależy od oryginalnego …
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Without it being explicitly mentioned, one could say that Transformation Sonor by Hannes Strobl is also very much in line with the music and sound of Eliane Radigue: ‘Transformation Sonor explores the idea of process, of the slow transition from one musical situation to another, of transformation on the threshold of equivalence and differentiation. Expressive, outward gestures that allow the sound …
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In den nächsten Tagen erscheint der zweite Teil von Jos Smolders’ “Textuur”-Projekt auf Crónica. Als Grundidee geht es um die permutative Überführung tanzbarer Musik in ein elektroakustisches Setting. Dazu heißt es in den Ausführungen des niederländischen Sounddesigners und Komponisten: “With this project, I wanted to investigate the immersion of dance music into an electroacoustic environment. …
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Sometimes working under his own name and at other times working as Arcane Device, which he has done since the mid-1980s, New Yorker David Lee Myers creates music using feedback systems, most of which he makes and develops himself. On this recent album “Strange Attractors”, Myers feeds a mix of feedback, found sounds and other …
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Roel Meelkop’s career as a sound artist stretches back some 40 years since he started the post-industrial project THU20 with four other musicians in the early 1980s, and later decided to dedicate his career to investigating sound and music while studying visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Among …
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Avevo da poco raccontato il secondo capitolo di “A reassuring elsewhere”, un rassicurante altrove di Philippe Petit (che rassicurante non è…), e già l’artista ha già fatto uscire un nuovo lavoro: “A divine comedy”, uscito per Crónica Records. Dante Alighieri non finisce mai di ispirare gli artisti di tutti i tempi. La sua musica concreta, …
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Somewhere in the past, I am trying to remember when or on which occasion I wrote in a review something about granular synthesis being sampling on a microcellular level. And I wondered where granular synthesis ends and sampling begins. The whole micro/macro approach of dimensions can be drawn into this discussion, and with a nice …
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J’avais sélectionné ce disque, puis je l’avais écarté, déçu par quelques fragments. L’ayant écouté voici peu dans sa continuité, ce qu’on ne peut pas toujours faire, ou ce qu’on ne prend pas le temps de faire pour diverses raisons, j’ai été conquis. D’où sa réintégration dans ces colonnes. Artiste visuel et sonore vivant à …
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Puisant son inspiration dans La Divine Comédie de Dante et les gravures de Gustave Doré, Philippe Petit réussit le pari, non pas d’illustrer, mais d’offrir sa vision personnelle de l’oeuvre, en utilisant une palette de sonorités dont lui seul a le secret. Depuis toutes ses années d’activité, le compositeur a développé un style qui lui est propre, combinaison d’expression abstraite au bord …
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