microsound
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tatsuro kojima – refraction and reflection
Sounds are ambiguous, hanging between fragility and strength, within the evanescent nature and its tendency to presence, which in listening is nothing but the delicacy of a meeting with the sense of texture: the concrete-abstract cycle here reflected by Kojima in a…
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chihei hatakeyama + federico durand – magical imaginary child
Listening is pure innocence, detachment, abandonment not of sound but the claim for it. Composing is largely invitation to humility and intuition, showing that what we call spirit is actually pure silence, that which awakens, moves and encourages sound as…
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yann novak – idleness, endlessness
How many possible horizons? Where is the listening but in the vast ocean of its transit? In a temporal dislocation called Idleness, Endlessness, Novak gives the soul a question, going deep inside its cosmic coordinates, submerging the listener into expansive landscapes, filled with an…
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otto a totland – pinô
It’s hard to find words for Pinô; a completely glorious encounter, to be listened softly, repeatedly, slowly, as it is full of audible wonders hidden in the trails of time. The work is a theatre of subtle details that inhabit the seemingly simple sound forms, here as slightly…
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richard garet + zimoun – 21.21
Sonic texture not only speaks of detail and particularity; there’s also an implicit spatial interest around texture as it represents the diversification of morphology in its temporal development, similar to what Zimoun and Garet expose in 21.21, a piece set as a point created…
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how to cure our soul – saigon
To compose sounds is to reuse cosmic debris, to relate universal forces together in order to create spaces, atmospheres and states able to free the imagination and invite us to full presence, to make our way in the meditation towards the (in)audible forms. As Saigon, a magnificent…