BAYLE, FRANCOIS — La Main Vide
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Der französische Komponist fasziniert hier mit synthetischen elektro-akustischen Klängen, die eine ganz eigene Sprache sprechen, sowie einigen environment-recordings, komplex und verwirrend übereinandergeschichtet... LA MAIN VIDE wurde von BAYLE 1993-1995 realisiert. Nr. 8 im BAYLE-Cycle.
“Few things in life are more heavily anticipated around here than a new volume in the Francois Bayle series on INA GRM and here at last is Volume 8. It features a 42 minute work entitled "La Main Vide (The Empty Hand)" which is broken up into three sections and was recorded over the years 1993-95. Beautiful, subtly complex electronic montage from an absolute master, found here at a new height of transcending power -- stunning stuff. About the first section, " Rain Stick": "A faint beating mingled with a dull rumbling and the sonorities of a sheet of rain. Work on the the haze of indeterminate sounds contrasting with sounds of fixed pitch and resulting in complex, composite textures and masses. The relative austerity of the Experience Acoustique has given way to a style that is generous and poetical. The space has broadened and the rain stick is now surrounded by elegant garlands. The result is almost reminiscent of runs on a baroque organ. We recognize the play of the flute that is so dear to the author, the cascading sounds of glass, the furtive breaths, the shivers, the glissandi in a space that is inhabited, alive. The piece is teeming with ideas, yet it gives an impression of perfect coherence, not so much because of any apparent structure as because of an admirable sense of sequence and coordination." [Jacques Bonnaure]
“Few things in life are more heavily anticipated around here than a new volume in the Francois Bayle series on INA GRM and here at last is Volume 8. It features a 42 minute work entitled "La Main Vide (The Empty Hand)" which is broken up into three sections and was recorded over the years 1993-95. Beautiful, subtly complex electronic montage from an absolute master, found here at a new height of transcending power -- stunning stuff. About the first section, " Rain Stick": "A faint beating mingled with a dull rumbling and the sonorities of a sheet of rain. Work on the the haze of indeterminate sounds contrasting with sounds of fixed pitch and resulting in complex, composite textures and masses. The relative austerity of the Experience Acoustique has given way to a style that is generous and poetical. The space has broadened and the rain stick is now surrounded by elegant garlands. The result is almost reminiscent of runs on a baroque organ. We recognize the play of the flute that is so dear to the author, the cascading sounds of glass, the furtive breaths, the shivers, the glissandi in a space that is inhabited, alive. The piece is teeming with ideas, yet it gives an impression of perfect coherence, not so much because of any apparent structure as because of an admirable sense of sequence and coordination." [Jacques Bonnaure]