Résonance documents a series of live improvisations on laptop. The performances feature field recordings and electronic elements, beats, and digital processing.
Location recordings include resonant spaces that add their own colour to the existing soundscape, sounds of the five elements (TCM, qi gong), natural and environmental sounds, found sounds etc.
The sound design focuses on sculpting the natural resonant frequencies of recorded sounds, as well as textural and gestural qualities.
The work is grounded in electroacoustic tradition and draws from experimental electronic music, with a strong focus on deep listening. Every performance is entirely improvised.
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The third series is made of two performances recorded close together while on tour in the south of France. Both concerts were recorded by the venues, and i am very pleased to have high quality documents that are fairly representative of this early work.
While the database of sounds i can draw from is growing, i am able to delve deep into the character of each of the five elements and at the same time, present a whole range of tonal centers. The sculpting of natural sounds increasingly draws on the natural resonance of the source, while at the same time matches resonant frequencies of the body, used in sound healing – as proposed by the research of Leon Bence, Max Mereaux etc.
The addition of random electronic beats (reaktor) and live processing (granulation, spectral, etc.) gives the work a more experimental edge. Field recordings populate strange soundscapes where resonant spaces and different acoustics clash. We dive into the rich complexity of sounds of the five elements, observing textures from within and experiencing the entire universe in a grain of sound.
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