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| | | ina-grm (france) #ina e 5007 cd denis dufour “chrysalide” compact disc | 1997 release ; 1993 “digital” re-working of denis dufour’s 1977 piece “bocalises” (composed using solely the sounds of “glass jars, broken, crushed, and mixed together ad infinitum”) ...
give the source material, the proceedings here tend to gravitate towards the crunch & crinkle-heavy, with tons of high-frequency squeaks & squabbles ... but surprisingly the tone has less to do with crashing, banging noises & more the subtle timbres of rolled & shaken glass (not far from annea lockwood’s “the glass world” lp on tangent, actually) ...
one of the better “mouse age” titles ; esp. given the richness of the tape-saturated glass sounds used ... |
| | chrysalide - opus 78 - 1993 - 28’45
composed in july 1993 at the motus studio
dedicated to marc jaffeux
1. trepidoptères. is a modern version of the biological process whereby a chrysalis is metamorphosed. the spiritual change involved in a journey.
2. mues du son, here we find a number of wild refrains from bocalises, melodically repeated spirals in which the deliberate poorness of the material gives rise to a happy melody - for the acousmatic art has the gift of bringing forth sumptuous songs, which dufour carefully sets like precious stones
3. bille bleue, here we find and hear a sort of all-powerful “sound-machine”, a jukebox or pin-ball machine, producing resonance and surrounded by thousands of submissive servants with chattering glass teeth and tibias knocking together with the clear sound of chinking porcelain. the piece ends with a false conclusion, as if in anticipation of a new work, a new beginning yet to come, a rusting of wings
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