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Title:  Volt-AA Artist:  Kaffe Matthews, Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker, Champion, Christof Migone, Paarcand, Mylena Bergeron, s Label:  Oral Format:  2 X CD Price:  € 14.20   Mp3 samples:   1   2   3   4

Title Description:
Live recordings made during deep listening events VOLT-AA, with Kaffe Matthews, Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker, Champion, Christof Migone, Paarcand, Mylena Bergeron, skoltz_kolgen, d'iberville, Alexandre st-Onge a.o.

Vital Review:
Recentely a new edition of the Volt AA festival was held in Montreal
and probably on that occassion this double CD was released: a
collection of recordings made in the 2002 edition of the festival. The
artists were asked to prepare a piece around a theme of their choice.
They could choose for 'amnesia', 'mutation' or 'irony'. On the first CD
we find four pieces composed for 'amnesia' and one for 'mutation'. It
opens with a short atmospheric piece of Christof Migone, with what
sounds like sounds from the kitchen. Francisco Lopez has a rather
silent piece, but luckily loud enough to be played at a regular volume.
Alexandre St-Onge also has a rather silent piece, with concrete
sounds and voice manipulations. Skoltz_Kolgen is the only 'mutation'
piece on disc one. It seems to me that they are mutating sounds from
the environment, maybe even the concert space, into a large hybrid
sound of ambient music. Quite deep and atmospheric. Tim Hecker
closes the CD (all pieces are lenghty, up to almost twenty four
minutes for the Lopez piece) with a piece of sampled guitars that take
off like a plane engine and eroding low bit samples as lights on the
ground. Erosion takes the piece apart.
The second disc opens with Champion, of whom I never heard. They
are the only one to have two pieces and these two are the ones from
the 'irony' evening. Mutating voices in their 'Chain Smoking' piece into
a slow choir, in 'The International Le' the voices are boiled in hot
water. I am not sure what the irony is... Mylena Bergeron has a short
piece from 'amnesia' but sounds if it fitted better in 'mutation'.
Certainly Kaffe Matthews' piece falls in this category, she mutates the
sounds picked up in her environment directly. The final two pieces on
disc two are by D'Iberville and Pierre Andre Arcand, and form the
more noisy parts of this compilation. Here is where the industrial
music comes, via tape-loops and machine like static. But in an odd
way these pieces fit the CD quite well. In all a good documentation.
(FdW)