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nonvisualobjects (austria) #nvo 022 cd

christophe charles / i8uunter den linden • und transit” compact disc

  • christophe charles - unter den linden (30:00)

  • i8u - montag (5:53)
  • i8u - dienstag (5:33)
  • i8u - donnerstag (5:52)
  • i8u - freitag (8:30)
  • i8u - wochenende (9:26)
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may 2010 release ; “split” disc, offering a 30-minute musique concrθte piece from composer christophe charles, then a suite of shorter works (rife with keening, ultra-high frequencies) by france “i8u” jobin ...
nonvisualobjects press release...

artist: christophe charles / i8u
title: unter den linden / und transitcat#: nvo_o22
format: cd
release date: may 2010

limited edition: 300

unter den linden
the “grundton” of this 30-minute composition is the recording of the concert given at snd studios sheffield (uk) in march 2009, entitled “why is there something rather than nothing?” by mark fell and powered with d&b speakers by tony myatt (mrc, university of york). the sounds of planes have been recorded in mallorca (spain) in 1987, and in pilat (france) in 2009. this music comes after hcdc, composed in november 2008 after the death of daniel charles – his last days were darkened by breathing difficulties, hence the overall presence of the “wind”. the last five minutes were composed in 1987 with telephone bells, a silo and a spanish garbage truck, under the name “unter den linden”. the piece is not related with berlin, but with jules massenet’s “sous les tilleuls” (from “scenes alsaciennes” where bells are heard in a distance and thus modified by the wind), and evokes a peaceful atmosphere just before the bombs begin to fall.

christophe charles, september 2009

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this world of ours is one relative world. any number of other possible or actual worlds are conceivable. each such world is able to reflect all the others without ceasing to be the real world that it is of itself.

nishitani keiji

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und transit

the conceptual framework of “und transit” was conceived while taking part in a 3 months artist residency in krems, austria (2008/09). while in transit (daily walks) to my studio, i was inspired by a particular passageway in minoritenplatz.

like most passageways, which are a means to an end – and are rarely treated as an end in itself – i was immediately struck by the loneliness and practicality of this space as well as the capacity of the users to ignore it on a daily basis. during the course of my residency i collected a number of field recordings in and around krems, in order to create a series of soundscapes based on minoritenplatz’s sound of emptiness through the means of a quadraphonic installation.

these compositions represent some of the pieces composed for “und transit”.

i8u (france jobin)

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follow your bliss.

joseph campell

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 206 cd

christophe charlesundirected 1992-2002” compact disc

  • next point (hommage ΰ henning christiansen) (21:15)
  • deposition (45:45)
sub rosa press release...
undirected 1992-2002
christophe charles
sr206

 works & collaborations

undirected 1992-2002 is an "exploration" through music, texts and photographs, an echo from earth and its inhabitants.

composed in tokyo where christophe charles uses to live (he is now associate professor at musashino art university, tokyo), this release is a follow-up to'undirected 1986-1996' (1997 mille plateaux). charles also remixed microstoria in reprovisers (1997 mille plateaux) and yoshihiro hanno in april remix (2001, sub rosa). he also appeared on oval's 'dok' album (1997 thrill jockey). and worked on several occasion with ikeda ryoji on installations in japan.

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undirected 1992-2002 features two compositions.

1

"next point - tribute to henning christiansen", is a performance given at the manca festival in 1992, it is an extension of "media opera" organized by yamaguchi katsuhiro in october 1992 on awaji island to celebrate the foundation of his "village of the arts". one can hear the rain falling in the south from majorca, the voices of salesmen of coffee and boiled eggs of the station of howrah, beside calcutta, the chants of the monks of todaiji in nara, and the calls of the merchants of ice cream of hangzhou (recorded by martina diestel). other sounds were sampled among the works of henning christiansen: sporadic chords of the piano of the cave of penthesilea, the very particular sound of the long pipe which christiansen hits more or less regularly on one end, "in order to give a certain feeling of time", or the bells and the tuba of the "garden of the yellow mountain" where low frequencies make almost inevitably vibrate the ceilings of the rooms where it is played.

2

'deposition' contains ten episodes of various lengths which are connected according to a dynamics of tension and relaxation. there is no particular narrative dimension, but "scenes", featuring soundscapes from various cities and countrysides, as well as musical (instruments) sounds: voice, flutes, or percussions, which reflect an interest for the fundamental actions of breathing, or hitting objects with the body - rather than praising the mastery of a particular technique. the sounds generally come from an action which does not have any musical claim, for example, the senegalese women who crush the millet. the voices are those of the salesmen from the fischmarkt of hamburg, the children of calcutta, italian dogs howling in the night, or insects of japanese mountains. other sounds come from a collaboration with ryoji ikeda, from "in memoriam gilles deleuze" and from the music of the two permanent sound installations of osaka and tokyo-narita international airport.

photographs

"photographs & cover : mobiles floating in the space" some photos (like the back cover) are stills from the permanent installation located in the central atrium of terminal 1 at the international airport of tokyo-narita, accompanying by the illuminations of osaka takuro and satoshi hasegawa and revealing the sounds of the environment. every thirty minutes, the ceiling darkens and a short spectacle (4-minute) of sounds and spots floodlighting translucent mobiles floating in the space of the atrium takes place. the compositions are a mixture of musical sounds, voices and urban or marine soundscapes, which suggest displacements and voyages.

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thrill jockey (usa) #thrill 046 cd

oval / christophe charlesdok” compact disc

  • lens-flared capital (5:50)
  • polygon medpack 2.0 (4:02)
  • dekon-rekon anything (4:53)
  • bloc (4:31)
  • reversioning (2:27)
  • momentan vr (7:51)
  • standard audio frontend (6:07)
  • vitra desk (4:26)
  • class (5:00)
thrill jockey press release...
dok
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thrill jockey
thrill 046 • 1998

this record is part one of a counter-remix-project embarked upon by berlin-based sound innovators oval and tokyo-based installation artist/sound designer christophe charles. the record is primarily an oval record accessing the soundfile archive of travel and field recordings by christophe charles. on previous records 94diskont and their debut systemisch, oval explored deconstruction and reconstruction, assault and aesthetics creating a unique semantic on top of the exploration of generic features and bugs of electronic music media. their music has always been a naturally occurring phenomenon that documents their adaptation process of digital (music) media as a whole.

on this new lp, dok, the preparation of the recording process itself was a challenge in its own right. the challenge centers around the widely static and very delicate environmental recordings of sound designer christophe charles and the difficulty in creating music out of sounds with no sustain, no rhythm, and in no linear structure or relationship to each other.

charles, who holds a phd from tsukuba university and a phd from institut national de langes et civilasations orientales in paris, has spent considerable time exploring the often forgotten aspect of music, its spatial dimension; in other words the effect and/or location of amplification, position of the origin and dimensions of space in which music is performed/played. these considerations have led him to work often with "found sounds" or actual environmental (urban or otherwise) recordings. charles provided oval with a selection of field recordings of bells from around the world. the bells' sounds and monolithic travel recordings were static with almost no rhythmic index. oval transformed the static character of the found sounds and made them fluid.

the resulting record documents a compelling merge of two vast, very distinctive soundfile archives, effortlessly two extreme, sometimes even contradicting approaches to both music and music technology - encouraging the listener to see sound shape and form in entirely new ways by adding an entirely new spatial and lively index to oval music. through the additional processing of the bell and other environmental sounds, the addition of bass tones and the use of as well as "as is" environmental recordings, oval have once again created a complex, yet accessible soundscape. dok is nonetheless still firmly grounded in what oval always was all about: intervention into simulation, and theory and above all a musical result that may be enjoyed without any knowledge of the technology or theory behind it.

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