" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

"Go, go, go! ... Go! go! ..."
John Lee Hooker"

 

30/08/2012

Berberian sound studio



The official trailer of the Peter Strickland's movie.
Set in 1976, Toby Jones plays a documentary sound engineer who finds himself employed by a notorious low-budget Italian horror studio.
A tribute to the classic Italian Giallos movies.

"Berberian sound studio"




and a clip extract from the film...
<<<here>>>

a link with the Vinyl : here

26/08/2012

The Great White Silence



"The great white silence" is a 1924 english documentary shot during the expedition "Terra Nova expedition" in 1919/1913.
Restored by BFI National Archive, this movie is the editing of the official film record of Captain Scott's ill-fated trip to the South Pole.
This silent film is now sounded with the original music of our friend Simon Fisher Turner,
helped by David Coulter, Sarah Scott, the Elysian quartet & Alexander l'Estrange.


and a documentary around this project...

>>> scoring the great white silence <<<


20/08/2012

Necessary Monsters



"Necessary Monsters", a staged song cycle for 7 musicians & 1 actress,
written by the american violonist and vocalist  Carla Kihlstedt & the poet Rafael Oses,
based on "Book of imaginary beings" of Jose Luis Borges.
At the West coast premiere in San Francisco in July 2011.



16/08/2012

Rock me baby


Sugar Pie DeSanto is an american/philipino  rythm'n'blues singer born in 1935.
She started in 1955 touring with the "Johnny Otis Revue".
As a great talented voice, Sugar Pie was part of the "American Folk Blues Festival" 
in Europe in 1964 where she was the only female artist.
She happened to be a hilarious comedienne as well a show-stopping dancer

"Baby what you want me to do" - England 1964


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10/08/2012

Chappaqua

A psychedelic excerpt of the cult movie Chappaqua, which won the second price at the Venice Film Festival competition in 1966.
Directed by Conrad Rooks, the plot is the semi-autobiographical account of his own attempt to pull himself up out of a pit of drug/alcohol addiction.
Main characters are interpreted by Jean Louis Barrault as well figures from the beat generation as Allen Ginsberg, Williams Burroughs and the musical appearances with Ravi Shankar, Ornette Coleman, Moondog, The Fugs....