" – 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

 

21/01/2016

Bridges-go-round


"Bridges-go-round" is an experimental work around New York landscapes filmed by the american independent filmmaker  Shirley Clarke in 1958.
The two parts of the musical score were composed by Teo Macero for the first part, and the famous duo of pioneers of electronic music,  Louis & Bebe Barron for the end.








19/01/2016

A desk but an organ

 

This atypical desk, build by the american artist Kagen Sound is in fact an incredible masterpiece titled "Pipe Organ Desk" .
More details here.





13/01/2016

Drum Midi Evil

http://www.discogs.com/David-Linton-Orchesography/release/1215415

Before to explore, in 2004, relationship in between sound and animated images with his "Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System" project, our friend David Linton, located in New-York, was a virtuoso drummer using triggered tape loops and electronics.
In 1986, Neutral Records published an unforgetable solo LP titled "Orchesography" based on the same drumming's method.

about "Bicameral's project"
"With Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System, Linton makes vibrational, wave-induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects in a physical (live camera) space. He employs an integrated, recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design, modulated by freehand intervention to deliver vigorous eye, ear, and sometimes body shaking real time audio." David Weinstein - 2012


"Drum Midi Evil", a great orchestral archive' session at "Exit arts Tantrum festival" in NYC - 1990

10/01/2016

Ear





in "Signes, traces, pistes - racines d'un paradigme de l'indice"
de Carlo Ginzburg - Le débat (nov. 1980)




07/01/2016

A story of destruction


At the time of the famous Vincennes' university, inspired by a Pierre Boulez's writing, a short talk of Gilles Deleuze about "Lulu" & "Wozzeck", the two operas composed by Alban Berg.
Circa 1975/1976. (in french language, subtitled in italian).