DELPLANQUE, MATHIAS — Ma chambre quand je n'y suis pas
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Studio-Version einer Klanginstallation des kanadischen Klangkünstlers MATHIAS DELPLANQUE, der die "Stille eines Raumes" als ursprüngliche Klangquelle benutzt hat. Durch extensive Bearbeitung entstand ein sehr ansprechendes Stück Drone-Geräuschmusik, sehr pulsierend, zeitlupen-artig, mit vielen hohen Microsound-Frequenzen...
"This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montréal’s Studio Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the ‘’Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas’’ series. The piece is based on the recording of “silences”, i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an “empty” Studio Cormier was therefore used as the material for the production of this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist. The sounds gathered were then amplified, and their frequencies, accentuated to the extreme. In the installation itself, the sound was broadcast in multi channel mode over 11 loudspeakers, including a subwoofer, in four Studio Cormier spaces (“Hall”, “Living room”, “Bedroom”, “Lab”). This installation closed Mathias Delplanque’s Montréal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004, as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association française d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ). The result of the experiment, as presented on this record, constitutes a genuine drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, ‘’speak’’ and ‘’non-speak’’…One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened with various underlying currents. A sheer delight. Mathias Delplanque is known, among others, for his releases under the LENA moniker on the Quartermass label. As THE MISSING ENSEMBLE, Mathias Delplanque, John Sellekaers and Daniel De Los Santos recorded the HIDDEN DOORS cd, released on MONDES ELLIPTIQUES (.E.Q.05.01.)." [label info]
"Mathias Delplanque has a whole series of works devoted to empty spaces, and this particular one was already recorded in 2001, and now edited into a great twenty minute of music. Like before, Delplanque uses the empty space as a starting point, and even while his work is inside microsound, he transposes the silence into some powerful music, which never goes ‘quiet’. Through various sections, he brings the empty space alive in some striking piece of music. Devoid of microsound, this is probably more ambient with a touch of industrialism to it. Great work." [FdW, Vital Weekly]
"mathias delplanque is a sound artist born in ouagadougou (burkina faso) in 1973. he released records under his own name or under the pseudonyms of lena and bidlo, on several labels around the world. the works under his name all deal with the relation between space and music. with the series "ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas" ("my bedroom when I’m away"), he uses field recordings from empty private spaces to compose works standing at the border between concrete and drone music. this "paris" version is the first opus of the series. it was created in 2001 but had never been released yet. mathias delplanque remixed it in 2008 and edited it in a single 20 minutes version for taâlem."
"This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montréal’s Studio Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the ‘’Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas’’ series. The piece is based on the recording of “silences”, i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an “empty” Studio Cormier was therefore used as the material for the production of this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist. The sounds gathered were then amplified, and their frequencies, accentuated to the extreme. In the installation itself, the sound was broadcast in multi channel mode over 11 loudspeakers, including a subwoofer, in four Studio Cormier spaces (“Hall”, “Living room”, “Bedroom”, “Lab”). This installation closed Mathias Delplanque’s Montréal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004, as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association française d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ). The result of the experiment, as presented on this record, constitutes a genuine drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, ‘’speak’’ and ‘’non-speak’’…One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened with various underlying currents. A sheer delight. Mathias Delplanque is known, among others, for his releases under the LENA moniker on the Quartermass label. As THE MISSING ENSEMBLE, Mathias Delplanque, John Sellekaers and Daniel De Los Santos recorded the HIDDEN DOORS cd, released on MONDES ELLIPTIQUES (.E.Q.05.01.)." [label info]
"Mathias Delplanque has a whole series of works devoted to empty spaces, and this particular one was already recorded in 2001, and now edited into a great twenty minute of music. Like before, Delplanque uses the empty space as a starting point, and even while his work is inside microsound, he transposes the silence into some powerful music, which never goes ‘quiet’. Through various sections, he brings the empty space alive in some striking piece of music. Devoid of microsound, this is probably more ambient with a touch of industrialism to it. Great work." [FdW, Vital Weekly]
"mathias delplanque is a sound artist born in ouagadougou (burkina faso) in 1973. he released records under his own name or under the pseudonyms of lena and bidlo, on several labels around the world. the works under his name all deal with the relation between space and music. with the series "ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas" ("my bedroom when I’m away"), he uses field recordings from empty private spaces to compose works standing at the border between concrete and drone music. this "paris" version is the first opus of the series. it was created in 2001 but had never been released yet. mathias delplanque remixed it in 2008 and edited it in a single 20 minutes version for taâlem."