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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Mathieu Ruhlmann
t i t l e : Broken Vessels
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Mystery Sea (MS18)
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : February/2005
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 55,5 MB
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"These signs open underneath and spill themselves into calm
waters, back to their apparent sources.
There is no resemblance with the seabed of nature,
harbouring the broken movements of the sediment...
a ship that has been destroyed at sea, slumbers in a young skin
of hydrographic measure.
The water-growing to itÆs edges, thalassic, with the blaze of
drought.
This forms the landscape setting and indissolubly becomes
linked with the rhythms of nature, bathed in oceanic alloy, as
though awaiting the return of the drowning remnants.
Let these sayings sink down into the sea."
- Mathieu Ruhlmann, August 2004
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Canadian Mathieu Ruhlmann is a sound artist with strong visual
roots...
with outstanding releases to his name for labels like S'AGITA,
compilation tracks on PETITE SONO & STASISFIELD, unreleased
collaboration with Aaron Lennox via the Soulseek p2p community,
he has also a whole body of further engaging upcoming work...
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Rather naturally, it's a visual element which induced the
"Broken Vessels" project, namely an Anselm Kiefer's photograph
(contemporary german artist) depicting iron rods in an old
bathtub filled with water...
To meet this initial burst of inspiration, Mathieu made some in
harbour site specific recordings that were filtered and
processed to reveal buried, hidden aspects behind the visible
reality, the multiple facets of an ever transforming organic
life...
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"Broken Vessels" engenders a dislocation, a fracture where
something new & undefined slowly emerges on the shifting
surface of a shapeless ocean...
Tides of drones, a world of corroded echoes, underwater clanks
& resonances, floundering indecipherable wrecks...
A mysterious crucible of continuous sparkling activity...
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"Broken Vessels" points to the range of possibilities &
reorganization,
to a state where each friction generates a birth,
every stone becomes a garden,
and every wave a new virginal sea to explore...
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The second encounter for me with the work of Mathieu Ruhlmann,
following his 'Two Stills Concrete' on S'Agita (see Vital
Weekly 399). For this new work, Ruhlmann (despite his German
sounding name from Canada) took his inspiration from a photo by
Anselm Kiefer: iron rods in an old bathtub filled with water.
To this end Mathieu went to a harbour and recorded sounds there
of water, but also ships bouncing against the harbourwalls and
the like. Back home the material is transfered to the computer
and extremely filtered, although throughout the water sounds
can be recognized throughout these three lengthy pieces. Hugh
walls of reverb make this into a particular dark ambient work.
More Side Effects than Hypnos, if you catch my drift. Maybe
some of the processing is too simple (adding reverb is
something that is not really an interesting tool when
composing), but especially the first two parts have a good
combination of water sounds, electronic processings and
filtered field recordings. That makes things quite nice for
this one. (FdW, Vital Weekly 458)
Address: http://www.mysterysea.net
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01-Part I [30:46]
02-Part II [17:42]
03-Part III [11:39]
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60:07 min
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