{"id":11650,"date":"2025-04-01T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:19:42","slug":"new-release-philippe-petits-closing-our-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11650","title":{"rendered":"New release: Philippe Petit\u2019s \u201cClosing Our Eyes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/233\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cronica233-2025_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11610\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cronica233-2025_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cronica233-2025_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cronica233-2025_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cronica233-2025_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cronica233-2025_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing Our Eyes&nbsp;is a series of compositions that invite the listener-spectator to find a place of interiority, a sonic journey that conjures up images and imaginary signs in perpetual change to create the possibility of pushing the imagination further, to express a visual fantasy. This could have been the imaginary soundtrack of a film that only exists on the spur of listening\u2026 You can only see the images by closing your eyes?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following his soundtrack to Dante Alighieri\u2019s&nbsp;Divine Comedy,&nbsp;Closing Our Eyes&nbsp;is pushing further the marriage of electronic and acoustic. From his early works recontextualizing Mahler\u2019s first symphony,&nbsp;Cordophony, giving priority to sounds coming from the vibrations of one or several strings, or&nbsp;The Extraordinary Tales of a Lemon Girl&nbsp;and&nbsp;A Reassuring Elsewhere&nbsp;trilogies, Petit is always showing extreme respect to the acoustic material, keeping it fresh, accentuating the relief and depth of the noble sound-material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection of pieces conjures images, mental and emotional pictures of events, scenes and moods, bringing a new palette of sounds with a vast array of inside-piano, tape manipulations, percussive instruments and modular synthesisers played in creative and unconventional ways. Organising sounds in search of sensation may be a powerful image stimulus; a new art of sound may perhaps prod our psychological forces into creating new dimensions of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acoustic transformation through electronics is musically stimulating, creating and modifying sounds, developing a new reflection of the musical language which could escape conventional stylistic limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could, though should it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petit is happy to keep his music in motion, natural, visceral, while being playful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/233\/\">Closing Our Eyes<\/a><\/em> is now available as a limited-release CD, stream or download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing Our Eyes&nbsp;is a series of compositions that invite the listener-spectator to find a place of interiority, a sonic journey that conjures up images and imaginary signs in perpetual change to create the possibility of pushing the imagination further, to express a visual fantasy. This could have been the imaginary soundtrack of a film that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: Philippe Petit\u2019s \u201cClosing Our Eyes\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-philippe-petit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11651,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}