Artist : Eliane Radigue
Title : Jouet electronique / Elemental I
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2010
Date : 01/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Alga Marghen
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 23:46 min
Size : 30,10 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Jouet Electronique 11:48
02.Air - Vent 03:09
03.Feu 05:20
04.Terre - Eau - Pluie 02:44
05.Mer 00:45
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23:46 min
Alga Marghen proudly presents two
sublime pieces by Eliane Radigue, ôJouet
Electroniqueö (1967) for feedback on
magnetic tape and ôElemental Iö (1968)
for feedback of natural sounds on
magnetic tape. Both works, released at
Pierre HenryÆs Studio Apsome in Paris,
were never published before.
Between 1967 and 1968, Eliane
Radigue was the assistant of Pierre
Henry in his studio, mainly for the
editing of "L'Apocalypse de Jean". He
also put her in charge of organizing his
sound archive according to different
criteria. It was an endless workà there
were incredible sounds, a true sound
library! Eliane Radigue really enjoyed
to do this work, even if it took a long
timeà So, sometimes, she decided to set
the machines of the studio to do some
little work on her own. "Jouet
Electronique" and "Elemental I" were
born this way as a kind of recreation
during her time as a studio assistant.
Working with feedback is something
that Eliane Radigue learned through
Pierre Henry. Do you remember ôVoyageö?
ThereÆs that fluid part which is made of
feedbacks constructed with a microphoneà
Everything had to be set at a precise
distance from the loudspeakers because
that is the specific problem with
feedback, you have to be at the right
distanceà Afterwards, these high tone
recordings were slowed down in order to
discover the deeper character of their
colour. This work with feedback was in
the end quite limited and what the
composer preferred, as a way to produce
sounds, was working with two reel tape
machines. The first was set on the
recording mode while the other was
playing and it was the accidents
happening in this phase that made the
feedback richer. With some fine-tuning
you could reach very beautiful results:
low pulsations, very high-pitched
sounds, sometimes the two at the same
time or long sounds. All of these sounds
could be slowed down or accelerated,
which gave her a beautiful material to
work with.
With "Jouet Electronique" Eliane
Radigue had a lot of fun, hence the
titleà As far as "Elemental I" is
concerned, it was the first attempt at
something which was very important to
her based on the theme of the basic
elements: water, fire, air and earth.
Eliane had the chance to record in open
air thanks to a small Stella Vox that
Arman gave her in the beginning of the
1960s. At the time she was still living
in Nice and every now and them she went
for a walk to do some recordings: the
sea, the wind, the rain, the fireà
Eliane Radigue continued this way to
built her very minimal sound library,
not more than ten reel tapesà This was
the starting point and in 1968 she used
these recordings for her work with two
reel tape machines.
Edition limited to 300 copies, with a
text by Emmanuel Holterbach and a photo
portrait by Arman.
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