{"id":6799,"date":"2013-12-02T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T09:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2013-12-01T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T19:23:43","slug":"new-release-concret-sens-by-emmanuel-mieville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6799","title":{"rendered":"New release: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Concret-Sens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Emmanuel Mieville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cronica084-2013_520.jpg\" alt=\"cronica084-2013_520\" width=\"520\" height=\"507\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6784\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cronica084-2013_520.jpg 520w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cronica084-2013_520-260x253.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\nCr\u00c3\u00b3nica is very proud to present a new release from French composer Emmanuel Mieville, the wonderful \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Concret-Sens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/119587533&amp;color=dddddd&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cillages (13:48)<\/li>\n<li>Locus Sonus (10:20)<\/li>\n<li>Solis Ortus (12:22)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The title of this release refers to a French adjective \u00e2\u20ac\u201d concrescence \u00e2\u20ac\u201d used by composer Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Bayle to describe and underline in his music, the concrete substance of sounds, the quality of an object or sound to evoque the down to earth quality of its aural image (or its ruggedness, its wabi-sabi). It also plays on the specific meaning of sens, meaning direction. The direction towards concrete.<\/p>\n<p>This was Emmanuel Mieville\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s framework while composing these pieces, close to the essence of musique concr\u00c3\u00a8te, as defined by Pierre Schaeffer. He gathered found sounds and recordings, freely associating materials and sounds in a narrative approach, without transforming their intrinsic concrescence. Some elements were taken from radio archives, others were recorded but weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t used in the final mixes, but still managed, however, to resonate throughout the pieces, such as the woman humming a melody and making coffee that was recorded for Locus Sonus.<\/p>\n<p>Cillages uses recordings of neon lights and hums from electrical outlets. No other electronic devices were used.<\/p>\n<p>Locus Sonus uses tape and field recordings as the main sources, accompanied by excerpts of radio documentaries and, in a sense, also working as a nod to Mieville\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to electroacoustic composition, learned first and foremost by listening to creative radio programs and live concerts. The magnetic presence of the tape is haunted by memories of sound, by anecdotes and personal historical elements.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final piece, Solis Ortus, uses field recordings manipulated through granular synthesis, with dynamic and spatial treatments to create bursts of sound and semi-random movements in the stereo field.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=084\">Concret-Sens<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is now available through <a href=\"http:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/concret-sens\">Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica&#8217;s bandcamp page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boomkat.com\/downloads\/871829-emmanuel-mieville-concret-sens\">Boomkat<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/player.believe.fr\/links\/gb\/0\/786221\/\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica is very proud to present a new release from French composer Emmanuel Mieville, the wonderful \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Concret-Sens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Cillages (13:48) Locus Sonus (10:20) Solis Ortus (12:22) The title of this release refers to a French adjective \u00e2\u20ac\u201d concrescence \u00e2\u20ac\u201d used by composer Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Bayle to describe and underline in his music, the concrete substance of sounds, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Concret-Sens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Emmanuel Mieville&#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":[134],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-emmanuel-mieville","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","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=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}