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(...) experimental and primitive sound-activities (...) hybrid acousmatic contexts (...) neo-archaisms, Japanese Gagaku, Tibetan rituals, Pygmy music (...)
(...) everything linked to noise manufacturing, electronic manoeuvrings – including – digital percussive devices and vinyl manipulation (...)
Hieronymous Bosch (v.1450-id.1516)
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"Trompe-l'oeil & bagatelles"
by Qoo-ij orium
Contains a collection of neo-archaisms (sic) conceived & directed by Franck Smith. A 24 track-suite displaying a kind of new primitive music w/ hybrid electronics and various instruments. A work around "instrumentarium geometry" close to chamber music esthetic and post-modern composition using electronics, vinyls, percussive devices, bowed-berimbau, accordion, objects, soundfields, electric guitar, e-bow, computer processing and personal archives of Pygmy polyphony.
Recorded & mixed 2006-2007 / Ref. odl.9173-652 / Conceived & directed by Franck Smith / Performed by Qoo-ij orium
– Listen to audio extracts (...)
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"Xing" (Crossing)"
by Tlü Ejtko
Drastic pieces enthused both by the art of Butoh dance and the Japanese Noh theater. Cold beauty and martial procedures in the shape of eerie sceneries. Performed w/ prepared recorders, electronic, radio + custom-made reverb system (sustain pedal, harmonics feedback, piano cap).
Recorded & mixed 2002 / Ref. odl.9173-5 / Composed by Ijnveïq de Ernestine / Performed by Tlü Ejtko
Price: 12€ (Free postage) PROMO
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"Narratorium/Ellipsis of an idiot"
by Ijnveïq de Ernestine
Two of Ijnveïq de Ernestine's first acousmatic works on one disc. Inventive and hybrid work around languages and onirism. More than electro-acoustic settings and studio experiments: 56mn of new archaisms for eared-eyes only....
Recorded & mixed in 2001 / Ref: odl.9173-1
Price: 12€ (Free postage) PROMO
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"Pygmology"
by Ijnveïq de Ernestine
A very compact ritual made for high volume listening. Elevated density, violence and obsessive fragments for this work basically inspired by Pygmy music. When noise becomes a vertical and mesmerizing ballet.
Recorded & mixed in 2002 / Ref: odl.9173-2
Price: 14,50€ (Free postage)
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"Les urnes funéraires"
by Franck Smith
Inspired by the book of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) — Hydriotaphia, urn burial — this recording is a dark ritual in three parts focusing on the «...ashes to ashes, dust to dust...» mechanisms. Maybe you should read the book before listening...
Recorded & mixed in 2006 / Ref: odl.9173-651
Price: 14,50€ (Free postage)
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"Nekrob umics"
by Franck Smith
Fluxus member Milan Knizak is responsible of some of the most beautiful and inventive experiments on gramophones and vinyls with his work «Broken music» (1979) based on ruined and/or prepared records — stuck, painted, burnt, cut, glued... «Nekrob umics» (anagram for «Broken music») pays tribute to this visionary of pre-recorded supports manipulation who started making noise with discs in the early sixties.
Recorded & mixed in 2005 / Ref: odl.9173-650
Price: 14,50€ (Free postage)
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"IX. que ce bébé se taise crierons-nous dans nos tombes"
by Franck Smith
Music for solo percussion and siren. 70mn of orchestral composition in real-time. 9 acts of «organised sound» between the works of Edgard Varèse and John Cage.
Recorded in 1998, time 70:20, Ref. tpsf.901
Price: 14,50€ (Free postage)
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"Ici ? Ø si 340 m/s < rien"
by Franck Smith
Experimental compositions. 10 independent pieces with a versatile instrumentarium become the raw material of 1 musical superposition. Including a piece dedicated to John Zorn.
Recorded & mixed in 1999 / Ref: tpsf.902
Price: 12€ (Free postage) PROMO
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