“Ma.Org Pa.Git” & “Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx” reviewed by Carnage News

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Chi pensa che le potenzialità di uno strumento si fermino allo strumento stesso, sbaglia. Non sbaglia, invece, Alexander Rishaug che con Ma.Org Pa.Git circonda lo strumento e gli permette di fuoriuscire dal suo corpo, rimanendo comunque perfettamente ancorato alle sue possibilità. Ciò che trascende il possibile non solo non rientra nelle condizioni strumentali, ma nemmeno nelle condizioni ambientali. Prendiamo uno strumento in particolare: l’organo. Esso nasce tenendo conto dell’ambiente in cui è immerso ed è parte integrante dell’architettura. Nel caso specifico si parla dell’organo della Chiesa dei marinai norvegesi di Rotterdam – provate pure a cercarla, ma non è scontato che la troviate – in cui è stato registrato il disco. L’album, come si intuisce dal titolo, è diviso in due parti. La prima, come abbiamo detto poco sopra, analizza lo spettro e la dinamica sonora dell’organo; nella seconda, i feedback di un vecchio amplificatore valvolare (un Vox Limited) e chitarra elettrica. Si badi bene, quando si parla di organo – come quando anche si parla di chitarra -, scordiamoci di trovare melodie, o più puerilmente “musica”. Quello che si aggira nei solchi audio del disco (in tutto due tracce: Ma.Org e Pa.Git per una durata totale di circa mezz’ora) è uno spettro d’onde e risonanze che Rishaug sapientemente sviluppa andando direttamente alla superficie della totalità dei suoni (non solo il suono dell’organo, ma ogni “interferenza” eventuale: scricchiolii, fruscii, manomissioni repentine), galleggiando così sul flusso acustico all’interno della struttura – una vera chicca, l’elevazione ulteriore della prima traccia dal decimo minuto circa.

Come se non bastasse, questo disco esce insieme ad una raccolta di remix in cui sono presenti autori di grande spessore come Loscil, Mark Fell e Machinefabriek, solo per citarne alcuni. Ognuno rivede quel magma sonoro in maniera personale fino allo stravolgimento del file d’origine. In particolare merita un appunto lo sviluppo di Mark Fell della durata di un’ora e mezzo.

Ma.Org Pa.Git è puro ambiente, e il suono che si muove al suo interno è frutto stesso di quell’ambiente. Nessuno dei due insiemi, suono e ambiente, racchiude l’altro poiché sono sovrapposti, di egual misura e indistinguibili.

Gorot

via Carnage News

“Transmissions” reviewed by Déphasage – Objets Sonores Non Identifiés

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The show has ended with Mathias Delplanque, a french artist who has release last september on the portuguese label, Cronica, “Transmissions”. This production is made from recordings of various industrial machines. A loom at the Musée du Textile from Cholet in France not far from Angers. And then, machine-tools from the Lycée Technique of the Livet near Nantes. Mathias Delplanque being a pedagogue too, this is in one of his interventions in this high school that the students recorded themselves the sounds that we can listen to on those compositions. The title of this release has now a double meaning when we know this context. In terms of sound, machines were and are always a good stock and in this industrial context, automated and relentless, rythm and beat are obviously ever-present. Mathias Delplanque is rebuilding the sound life of those machines giving it another sense, a new way to interlock these automatons always coupled.

via Déphasage

“Ma.Org Pa.Git” & “Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx” reviewed by Irate Music

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Czołowa postać norweskiej sceny eksperymentalnej, Alexander Rishaug, weszła w taki dialog z jednym z kościołów w Rotterdamie w 2012 roku, a efekty tego znalazły się na albumie „Ma.Org Pa.Git” (Crónica). Domyślam się, że jego uwagę przyciągnęło samo brzmienie organów, gdyż w pierwszej kompozycji „Ma.Org” słyszymy, szczególnie w końcówce tego długiego nagrania, jakie barwy artysta wydobywa z tego instrumentu – delikatne, pulsujące i migoczące dźwięki tworzące znakomite ambientowe plamy, zaś z drugiej strony dochodzą do nas nieokreślone odgłosy uzyskane w trakcie nieokreślonych czynności. Drugi utwór „Pa.Git” jest bardziej minimalistyczny, choć nie brakuje w nim pulsującego brzmienia organów, to jednak trzeba bardziej skupić się na niuansach, drobinkach i mikrodźwiękach zmierzających ku noise’owi, jaki Norweg generuje przy pomocy gitary. Alexander Rishaug, na tej niespełna trzydziestominutowej płycie pokazał, że jest wybornym improwizatorem i kompozytorem oraz wie jak wykorzystać wcale nie łatwą przestrzeń kościoła.

W tym samym czasie ukaże siÄ™ album z remiksami „Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx”, gdzie tacy artyÅ›ci jak Machinefabriek, Svalastog, Köhn, Sakana Hosomi, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Seaworthy, Loscil czy Mark Fell, przedstawili wÅ‚asne interpretacje nagraÅ„ Rishauga. Gdy spojrzycie na czas trwania kompozycji, jakÄ… zaproponowaÅ‚ Mark Fell, to możecie z niedowierzaniem przecierać oczy, bo trwa aż półtora godziny! Nie jestem zwolennikiem tak rozciÄ…gniÄ™tych form i – jak siÄ™ okazaÅ‚o – to nie byÅ‚o dobre posuniÄ™cie z jego strony. Najlepsze fragmenty tego wydawnictwa, które bÄ™dzie dostÄ™pne jedynie w wersji cyfrowej w przeciwieÅ„stwie do winylowego krążka „Ma.Org Pa.Git”, należą do Machinefabrieka, Å›wietnego Svalastoga, Köhna momentami przypominajÄ…cego Terry’ego Rileya, Tetsuro Yasunagi z okolic minimal techno, noise’owego Seaworthy’ego i ambientowego Loscila. Nie wiem jak wy, ale ja bardzo rzadko trafiam na remiksy, do których chcÄ™ później wracać. Doskonale pamiÄ™tam longplay „Reich Remixed”, no może „Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx” nie jest produkcjÄ… tego formatu, bo i nie ta postać, ale obstawiam, że kompozycja Svalastoga pozostanie z wami na dÅ‚użej.

Łukasz Komła

via Irate Music

“Transmissions” reviewed by Le Son du Grisli

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Retour au quotidien, ou presque, de la noise en music en compagnie d’un habitué des lieux, le toujours habile Mathias Delplanque. Alors que ses Chutes de 2013 ne nous avaient que moyennement convaincus, pour ne pas dire autre chose, le cru 2014 du producteur français est d’un tout autre acabit. Tout en jouant avec les codes et astuces du bruit et du concret, ses Transmissions varient à la fois les formes et le fond.

D’entrée, on ressent un tic tac malsain du fond des mers à la recherche d’une épave grouillante de menace, c’est d’autant plus réussi que la matière sonore est riche. Si on enchaine sur de brefs instants assourdis d’où s’échappent des échos inquiétants de boîte de Pandore, l’ombre incandescente de la bête humaine vient se greffer sur nos angoisses pre-mortem, avant qu’un immense morceau de bravoure – 39 minutes, svp – n’achève de transformer l’exercice en subjuguante odyssée vers le centre de l’univers, peuplé de bruits surgis de cavités où l’on ne nous veut pas que du bien.

Fabrice Vanoverberg

via The Sound Projector

Futurónica 133

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Episode 133 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, February 6th.

The playlist of Futurónica 133 is:

  1. Alexander Rishaug, Ma.Org (2015, Ma.Org Pa.Git, Crónica)
  2. Hosomi Sakana, Ma.Org Re.Mx (2015, Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx, Crónica)
  3. Seaworthy, Pa.Git Re.Mx (2015, Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx, Crónica)
  4. Asuna, Pa.Git Re.Mx (2015, Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx, Crónica)
  5. Curver, Pa.Git (noise trigger Re.Mx) (2015, Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx, Crónica)
  6. Alexander Rishaug, Pa.Git (2015, Ma.Org Pa.Git, Crónica)

You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.

“Transmissions” reviewed by The Sound Projector

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This project took place in Cholet (in the Maine-et-Loire department, France) between 2008 and 2014, associating an artist, Mathias Delplanque, with students in a technical school there. Some of the sounds were recorded in the local textile museum (Cholet has a tradition in this industry, specifically in the making of handkerchiefs). Resonances and rhythmic regularity are what we hear first, through large movements and tiny punctuation, chimes/ signals and implacable clocklike beats, but nothing like your usual monster industrial music (cf. Futurists’ dreams re-loaded). The successive tracks display a large range in the noises collected and organized, sounds within which you never drown : room is made for short breaks, distance, silence, tiny details, coming and going action.

There are intros, outros (slow dying before motion stops), voices (of mechanical sources) emerging and vanishing again, space!

The audio results generally sound very smooth, indeed. Undeniably object music, machine music (though not “metal, rather wood), thing music. Which is just contradicted by the last track : a lengthy, wooly, ghostly exit without angles or edges, widespread as in slow motion, endless. Above “poetry”, it is just the (unasked for) audible proof that machines at work can make original art pieces, like music, for instance.

Hazel Lee

via The Sound Projector