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19/04/2022

Sonner-résonner – Gilles Fresnais

You can listen preview of this new piece on this page, or buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. Sonner - résonner Sonner-résonner was composed using different materials—a metal plate and a crystal glass, both filled with varying levels of water—that were struck, rubbed, and allowed to resonate. A microphone was placed up against the plate and the glass, and the sounds it captured opened up a whole palette of colours that could be brought to life with digital processing. This piece was inspired by the potential similarity of the sounds from two very different materials, as well as the melodic variation created by changing the water levels in each container. Gilles...

14/12/2021

De la nature des sons – Gilles Fresnais

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. De la nature des sons  Les chants de la mer ("Songs of the sea")  The sea isn’t actually the silent world that Commandant Cousteau described. A whole world exists here; you’ll hear calls to travel, calls from fellows or rallying cries. I tried to put the life and the musicality of this world into music. These sounds truly reveal the incredible diversity of the inhabitants of the deep. Lithophones en folie Primitive instruments, made from stone slabs of varying origins and struck with an assortment of mallets, create a rich tapestry of sounds underpinned with...