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a r t i s t : Julien Ottavi/Dion Workman
t i t l e : Misenlian
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Erstwhile Records
g e n r e : Other
r l s. d a t e : July/2005
t r a c k s : 01
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 76,10 MB
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Julien Ottavi and Dion Workman are two of the most extreme of
the younger wave of sonic explorers, pushing the boundaries of
sound and art. Ottavi hails from Nantes, France and Workman
from New Zealand, but their overlapping concerns and aesthetics
have drawn them together, and misenlian contains the results of
their initial collaborations.
Julien Ottavi studied sound and photography at the art school
of Nantes. He is a founding member of Formanex, an
electroacoustic quartet performing graphic scores from the 20th
and 21st centuries, including works by Cardew, Cage, Wolff,
Feldman, Brown, and Ralf Wehowsky, as well as the founder of
the Nantes-based experimental music organization Apo33
(responsible for running the label Fibrr among numerous other
activities). His most notable previous release is the superb
solo CD Nervure MagnΘtique (Sigma Editions, 2003).
Dion Workman began his career in the improvised rock trio
Thela, along with Dean Roberts and Rosy Parlane. After Thela
split up, Workman and Parlane founded Sigma Editions in 1998,
beginning an exploration of electronic music that has continued
to this day. Workman is a meticulous composer, with a
Feldman-like sense of development in his pieces, best
represented on disc by the perfectly sculpted Ching (Antiopic,
2003), a work which won him the 2003 Max Brand Prize from the
Austrian Cultural Forum.
Workman was introduced to Ottavi's work in 2001 by Parlane, who
suggested that Ottavi record for Sigma Editions after seeing
him play in London. Later, Workman invited Ottavi to play a
series of US shows, where they performed solo sets on the same
bill and grew to be good friends. After being invited to record
as a duo for Erstwhile, Ottavi came to the US for a month in
2003 and the two performed and recorded constantly. Based in
Workman's Brooklyn apartment, the duo literally improvised for
days at a time - when they slept, the computers continued to
generate sound, with changes in the PureData patches triggered
by microphones placed outside the apartment - and
intermittently recorded the results. Ottavi and Workman
directly followed up this intense recording period with several
long-duration live performances, each set lasting between 3 and
6 1/2 hours. By the end of Ottavi's stay in the US, the duo had
amassed approximately fifty hours of recorded material, which
they later selected and shaped into misenlian.
misenlian unites Workman's glacial, continuous pacing with
Ottavi's love for challenging the limits of dynamic range,
resulting in a single remarkable piece as jarring and
unsettling in its own way as the fluorescent colors of the CD
packaging.
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01-Misenlian [55:01]
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