Méryll Ampe "W7E" CD
MAR060
Release Date: November 4th, 2022

A multitude of processes, techniques, and forms unfold and unfurl within the work of Méryll Ampe,
an intermedia artist from Paris working through sound, sculpture, and installation using a wide assortment
of materials. What is immediately striking about Ampe’s work is the vibrant, non-linear approach to
electro-acoustic composition.
Here on the debut for Misanthropic Agenda, Ampe liberally reconfigures / deconstructs / genetically mutates
all sources: hydrophone recordings of vibrations through skin, analog synths, tape machinations,
sequencing programmed through algorithmic variability, and plenty of digital processing.
As Ampe describes it, the music on W7E is "a research with an experimental dimension, guided by notions that
systematically translate a form of ambivalence, between inside/outside, micro/macro. These intentions are
vectors of the dynamics, reliefs, depths and rhythm. My training as a visual artist also leads me to go through
mental images (such as a steep landscape, a boiling organism, an organic matter) which will then find a
sound form, states that I would describe as syncope, sound effluvia, abrasive arrhythmias. I look for a form of
plasticity in the sound medium, and that this energy become a living matter."
This multi-dimensional overlay through composition telescopes in and out of the body (not necessarily always
a human body, it should be noted), through a connectivity with technology that can influence psychological states
of being. The work addresses liminality, transitory slippages, and quantum theories of a particle being the two
separate places at the same time. If that can occur at the atomic level, why not through sound?
W7E stands as a dynamic, polydactyl album reflective of the aesthetics (if not concepts) of Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Francisco Meirino, and Bernard Parmegiani.
- Jim Haynes

links:
https://misanthropicagenda.bigcartel.com
https://misanthropicagenda.bandcamp.com
https://meryllampe.com/

Méryll Ampe "Close To"

Second track of my latest album "Desierto/Deseo" in Kalemine Records and Intronauta Music
https://athenenoctu4.bandcamp.com/album/desierto-deseo
https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/desierto-deseo

02 DESIERTO

Power Nap w/ Guru Bobol

https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-leaves-don-t-leave-the-tree

https://athenenoctu4.bandcamp.com/

02 Diving

Tacklist

01. Andrew Lang - False Departure-Silent Terminals
02. David Cordero - Quiet loops (with Pepo Galán)
03. Jens Pauly - 1989
04. Miguel Otero - The Man Who Belongs Nowhere
05. Samuel Edmund - Rearview Blue_1
06. Scott Campbell -  Innermost
07. Benoît Pioulard - VII
08. Cchristopher Bissonnette - Response
09. r beny - If I
10. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Daybreak Comes Soon

334. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Original music for the art video "Bring to life" by Lotie and Romain de Santi.
Music : Charles-Eric PEARD.
Art exhibition "So natural", Le Cube, France.
2009

"Bring MeTo Life" (SO NATURAL exhibition)

Live on the Viewpoint Stage at the amazing Kelburn Garden Party festival 2019

Komodo Kolektif live @ Kelburn Garden Party 2019

Residues of Time

Come Along

English :
After writing a dissertation on  "The effects of sound on visual perception in contemporary art", Charles-Eric Péard organised parties, festivals and art exhibitions with the association RadioFG/Global Tekno, then he worked during 10 years in cultural communication (radio, musical events, contemporary art, theater, fashion and design). He became sound designer creating several sound pieces for art exhibitions like "Diorama III" with the artist team UltralabTM at the Magda Danysz gallery (Paris, 2005) or "So Natural" at Le Cube (Issy-les-Moulineaux, 2009) with the artist Lotie. He explores sound poetry with the author Franck Laroze (l’Atelier de Création Radiophonique "Bribes sans abri" for France Culture radio in 2009 ; the sound installation "OGM – Ordre Général Mondial" in 2011, the sound installation "Huntsville - La Honte du monde" in 2012 or using his own texts (L’obsédé, Le chemin, Ô ma, etc.). More recently, his work also moved towards the art of performance ("Nature Morte – ESPERANCE" and "QUI EST LA ?" with Caterina Perazzi in 2012), the live shows (with the violonist Sébastien Maillet, or the director Arthur Lecaron) and towards the elaboration of shows using real time technology ("Je [me] suis parlé" by Franck Laroze).

Français :
Après un mémoire sur « Les effets du sonore sur la perception visuelle dans l'art contemporain », Charles-Eric Péard  (aka cepSound) travaille pendant dix ans en communication culturelle (radio, musique, théâtre, art contemporain, mode et design). Il devient plasticien sonore en réalisant plusieurs pièces musicales dans le cadre d'expositions artistiques comme "Diorama III" à la galerie Magda Danysz (Paris), "So Natural" au Cube (Issy-les-Moulineaux). Il réalise des habillages pour le marketing sonore et participe, en tant que musicien, à l'élaboration de spectacles numériques temps réel. Il explore également la poésie sonore avec d’autres auteurs dont Franck Laroze (Atelier de Création Radiophonique « Bribes sans-abri », France culture 2009 ; OGM - Ordre Général Mondial, Huntsville, EvidenZ 2011), et la mise en musique de ses propres textes (L’obsédé, Le chemin, Ô ma, etc.).

"Bring MeTo Life" (SO NATURAL exhibition)

cepSound

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