Résonance #6 [nt024]

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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These three live recordings from 2011 are good examples of how the work has evolved, gradually moving towards a minimal and meditative approach to electroacoustic performances.
We take the time to delve into the mood and narrative sequences offered by field recordings. Atmos tracks and resonant spaces frame environments where the five elements unfold and balance. Aspects of the previous series are carried over with sine tones that blend and interact with the resonant frequencies of natural sounds.

The recording process is also different, and works as a meditation in itself. And so the material recorded becomes more subtle, focusing on details that will blend into multiple layers in performance. Increasingly, it becomes obvious that the accidental convergence of sounds from different recordings occurs in a natural way – the music makes itself. This highlights the importance of using sounds that no agency other than nature itself created.
The world is sound, and all is music. I just let my meditations direct the microphones, in true art of the dérive, and let the moment inspire the sounds that are dealt in performance. How the layers communicate is magic.