Artist : Yves De Mey
Title : Lichtung
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 04/21/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Line
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 34:36 min
Size : 45,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Lichtung 34:36
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34:36 min
The sound work Lichtung is the original score for a dance solo by choreographers Antoine Effroy and Anne
Rudelbach and performed by Catherine Jodoin. The performance premiered on March 26, 2008 at
Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany.
The concept of the dance performance was to begin from a unique situation and sustain this physical state
as long as possible. By adding unique and non-repetitive movements, the choreography slowly evolves,
starting at the back of the stage and gradually moving towards the front, as if by zooming inward. The
sound follows this evolution or curve, not necessarily in volume, but rather by changes in density and
speed to accompany the performerÆs phrase changes.
Lichtung was written and composed in Brussels, Belgium and Hamburg, Germany by Yves De Mey.
Photo: Yves De Mey, 2008.
Thank you: Anne and Antoine, Catherine, Peter Van Hoesen, Richard Chartier
Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx (Berlin)
Published by 12kmusic(ascap).
Already at a very early age, Yves De Mey (born 1972) became interested in electronic and/or experimental
music. After a few unsuccesful years in film school, he decided to turn his early interest into his profession
and started working as sound engineer and sound designer. Very soon his work found its way into the field
of contemporary theatre, dance and performance.
Essential to De MeyÆs work is the dramaturgy of sound, often combined with research in change of
perception through spatialized sound or music. His music has a strong focus on filmic qualities with the
tendency to suggest a minimalist composition, allowing sounds to find their place and evolve over time.
Every single bit of the composition organically changes throughout the layout by gentle analog and digital
manipulation. In live situations, De Mey preferes to improvise, looking for happy accidents.
Besides his performing arts activities, heÆs been releasing music on different labels, often in more
accesible styles, but always based on a strong interest for non-conventional sounds. De Mey continues to
work on a series of site-specific sound installations, investigating space and processes of technical and
human decay. Yves De Mey often works together live or in studio with Christoph De Boeck/Audiostore and
Peter Van Hoesen. He shared stage with such noted artists as Kaffe Matthews, Christian Fennesz, Alex
Waterman, and Bo Wiget. De Mey lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
REVIEWS:
Lichtung captures the experimental sound score for a dance solo performed by Catherine Jodoin and
choreographed by Antoine Effroy & Anne Rudelbach. A year on from the piece's premiere at Kampnagel in
Hamburg, the dependably brilliant Line label releases the audio, as conceived by Brussels-based
electronic artist Yves De Mey. The thirty-five minute composition begins with a quiet high frequency drone,
but within just a couple of minutes the austere hiss opens up to reveal a less elusive sound characterised
by channels of soft noise that eventually give way to an electric guitar. Yes, this is a Line release with an
electric guitar on it - surely this has to be a first? In any case, it's by no means intrusive or gratuitous and
the instrument melts nicely into De Mey's miniaturized sonic universe, contributing subtle chord shapes
and understatedly downbeat tones while whirring machine noises keep everything grounded in sonic
abstraction. This spell doesn't actually last terribly long, but it sets a precedent for the quietly emotive
sound structures to come. As the piece evolves De Mey varies the density of his music nicely, detaching
from any sense of linear, cumulative evolution. The result is an evocative and strangely suspenseful affair
that acquires a kind of micro-industrial feel towards the end. Lichtung is an unusual release for Line in that
at certain points it taps into the more restrained minimalism of the label's early period, yet at others it's
revealingly organic and accessible. In any case it's another top quality addition to the 12k offshoot's
catalogue.
(Boomkat.com)
Originally commissioned for a solo dance performance, the single piece on this disc not only stands on its
own without any visual elements, but also showcases De Mey's history in film school as well, because it
has the dynamicism, variation, and drama of that medium as well.
The dance this was initially composed for was based upon the concept of a sustained physical state, with
unique physical elements slowly added to the performance, which the sound matches perfectly. Theopenitsuocotne Otfoanon Thanguhu Atthennodi Thsothachawo(b http://www.12k.com/line/f the dance performance for comparison purposes.cinating, I just wish there