45° Celsius

    Eve Couturier - pic by Stéphanie Q.

In the middle of the deserted Cévennes (France), early july, for the open air chill out "Cassiopeia" curated by Cedrick Eymenier and Alex Duncan.

excerpts of Eve Couturier (voice & texts) & Palix' (music) performance,

under the hot hot sun...



& another part titled  "au fond, vous désirez..."

Voyelles et consonnes

Comme une avant-garde de Kurt Schwitters & sa célèbre Ursonate?

voyelles et consonnes


Plus de 300 documents sonores ont été enregistrés de 1911 et 1914 quand Ferdinand Brunot, linguiste et professeur de langue française inaugure en 1911 les "Archives de la parole" au sein de la Sorbonne, avec l'aide d'Emile Pathé.

On peut y entendre quelques perles comme celles de l'inoubliable chanteuse grecque Marika Papagika, de magnifiques archives musicales du Laos, mais aussi les cours de Deleuze (79/87), et bien d'autres merveilles de l'époque de l'Exposition Universelle de 1931 ... etc ...

 

 

 

Le but de cette entreprise était d'étudier, enregistrer et conserver des témoignages oraux de la langue parlée, en analyser les accents et aussi les timbres de voix. A la suite de quoi sera fondé l'Institut de Phonétique de l'Université.

Au sein même de la Sorbonne seront enregistrées des voix de personnalités de l'époque comme Guillaume Apollinaire, Emile Durkheim, Pierre Louÿs, Alfred Dreyfus et bien d'autres. A la suite de quoi trois missions seront organisées dans les Ardennes, dans le Berry et en Limousin.

You

After studying art in Hamburg and founding in 1980 the band Palais Schaumburg, where the future Einstrürzende Neubauten's percussionist F.M.Einheit was part of, Holger Hiller started a solo career, using very early the sampler as a sole instrument.
His first releases with the famous Ata Tak label (Pyrolator, Die tödliche Doris, Der Plan...) were significative as a new impressive form of techno pop.

Changin radically his style, in 1992, Holger Hiller published "As is", his 6th record (Mute Records) under his own name.

The piece "You" always impressed me by its emotive and minimal ambient realm. Like a dream...

Display: V.Y.S.K.

Jargon sonore

Sous le soleil exactement, relire de toute urgence l'ouvrage compilant divers articles de Pascal Comelade, ainsi qu'une discographie d'icelui (jusqu'en 1999, date de publication), sous le titre de "Ecrits monophoniques submergés", au éditions du Camion Blanc.

Tout en écoutant ses Haïkus de piano et autres intergalactiques musiques...
quelques locutions argotiques publiées en décembre 1993 dans Revue et Corrigée N°18.

Unicolor

a Carsten Nicolai's installation: "Unicolor" at The Vinyl Factory’s space at Brewer Street Car Park... 

"The different colours indicate different sound material, from the very abstract to the graphic. So there’s white, amber, red, yellow, pink… I wanted to have clear vinyl so they overlap on the wall behind. Some are drones, some are high-pitched digital errors..."

Nico Cadeno

The great Felix Chappotin y su conjunto. 
Forget the extremly poor quality of this clip, just let's check the groove!

Duos (1)

Duos (2)

Music is everything

 

      Duke Ellington recording "Anatomy of a Murder" score

      picture by Don Hunstein - Los Angeles, 1959


"Music is everything.
Nature is music (cicadas in the tropical night).

The sea is music,
The wind is music,
Primitive elements are music, agreeable or discordant.

The rain drumming on the roof,
And the storm raging in the sky are music.

Every country in the world has its own music,
And the music becomes an ambassador.
The tango in Argentina and calypso in Antilles.

Music is the oldest entry.

A baby is born, and music puts him on sleep.
He can't read, he can't understand a picture,
But he will listen to music.

Music is marriage.
Music is death.

The scope of music is immense and infinite.
It is the "esperanto" of the world.
 
Music arouses courage and leads you to war.
The Romans used to have drums rolling before they attacked.
We have the bugle to sound reveille and pay homage to the brave warrior.
The Marseillaise has led many generations to victories or revolutions;
It is chant of wild excitement, and delirium, and pride.

Music is eternal.
Music is divine.

You pray to your god with music.

Music can dictate moods,
It can unnerve or subdue,
Subjugate, exhaust, astound the heart.

Music is a cedar,
An evergreen tree of fragrant, durable wood.

Music is like honor and pride,
Free from defect, damage, or decay.

Without music I may feel blind, atrophied, incomplete, inexistent."

Duke Ellington  - "Music is my mistress"  - (1973)