(Catalogue no. 13262)
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| Title: |
LÕIncandescene De LÕtoile |
| Artist: |
Lionel Marchetti |
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Label: |
Mixer |
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mCD |
| Price: |
€ 8.60 |
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Title Description:
"L'incandescence de l'etoile" is a Musique Concrte piece based on the everlasting universal (re)cycle. It is it's own modulator, oscillating at immense speed, almost standing still. The composer has interpreted and given an auditive representation of these cosmic forces, melted together in a solid musical gesture , perpetuated on a little disc. Captured time, but where to next?
"L'incandescence de l'etoile" is a great example of the fine craftmanship of Marchetti; it's been composed up to it's most delicate detail, with a great feeling for suspense and time-elapse. As any process, the piece travels through several stages, to end up at it's beginning again.
Vital Review:
AGF - DELAYONMYPILLOW (3"CD by Stichting Mixer)
LIONEL MARCHETTI - L'INCANDESCENCE DE L'ETOILE (3"CD by Stichting Mixer)
SPERMANN - HADZA REMIXED (CDR by Stichting Mixer)
Over the last few years the work Ante Greier Fuchs gained wide
recognition, either with her band Laub aswell as solo as AGF. I had
the pleasure to see it a couple of times live and listened with
interest to some of her CDs. Yet, I must admit, not much of that
grabbed me, but I never owned a CD myself, so I didn't repeatedly
listen to it. So, excuse me if this is my first encounter with her
work. Ante combines spoken word, poetry if you want, with delicate
electronic (digital) music. This eightteen minute work is based on
recordings made in Tunesia, in 2001. It's hard to tell what this is
about, as much of the text is hard to understand, it lies safely
embedded in the music. Over the course of eightteen minutes she
builts a clever collage of music and (processed) spoken word, which
do not seem to tell a story, but rather invoke images; images in the
head. I must admit quite a nice piece, which made me think to
investigate some of her other work too.
Lionel Marchetti belongs to the group of younger French composers,
who crosses over from composition to improvisation and back. Over the
years he has released a couple of his musique concrete pieces, which
were all captivating. 'L'incandescence De L'Etoile' is no different.
It's 'based on the everlasting universal (re)cycle. It's hard to tell
what kind of sounds Marchetti has put into this, but it's a very
vibrant piece of heavily processed sounds. They are wrapped,
unpacked, thrown about in the air, and they fall back on their place
at which point they are immediately lifted up again and swung about
in an entirely different mode. Unlike his other pieces, which seem to
be dealing with a subject (like Japanese swordplay in 'Dans La
Montagne (Ki Ken Tai)' - see Vital Weekly 397), this work is more
abstract and tells less of a story. But that aside, because it's not
necessary, this is another small work to cherish, as it's great again.
Stichting Mixer also releases CDRs in small editions, and they mostly
carry sound-documents and audio(art-) experiments. Somebody named
Spermman lived for a while in Tanzania with the Hadza people and
recordings he made where released by Musique Du Monde in France. Now
he comes with a 'remix' of those recordings, mixing spoken word by
the Hadza people, who use a language of clicks and sharp tickles,
with electronic sounds. Unlike AGF, Spermann stays close to the
original recordings, mixing them with synthesized sounds of his own,
adding organ like sounds, sampling rhythms and voices. They blend
together quite nicely. A small trip into the heartlands of Africa. A
pity of the dreadful artistname. (FdW)
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