Oscillations planétaires evokes geology.

In all the layers that make it, from its core to its surface areas, Planet Earth is inhabited by undulatory motions of extremely varied temporal scales. Some are inscribed in a geological timeframe while others follow a daily cycle. This oscillatory ensemble contributes to the mechanisms that rule the Earth’s dynamics.

These are the phenomena evoked in the work.

    Earthquakes
    Every year, there are between 800,000 and 1,000,000 earthquakes worldwide. Most of these tremors are too weak to be felt or happen in uninhabited areas.

01 Dumas  Tremblements De Terre

Chantal Dumas Vents dans les Prairies (2000) From radio roadmovies - Listen from 00s to 3 min.
Notes : Paysage sonore accent mis sur la matière sonore.

Documents de surface
 Winds over corn and canola fields
 at Spirit Sands, MB, Austin, MB and Route 2, SK; Buffalo herd south of Winnipeg, MB; Night freight train at Indian Head, SK.

03 Dumas  Vents Dans Les Prairies

2. Ida Toninato We become Giants | 7'33" February 21, 2020
Listen from 7m 05 to 10m 57

Notes : À écouter le jeu avec la longue réverbération. Travail avec l'acoustique du lieu.
'We Become Giants' was composed and recorded at the Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Colorado. This immense former water treatment facility is a uniquely resonant space, with a massive 40-second long reverberation. The music was composed in and with this sublime arena, the harmonics and beating patterns created by its own echo and reverb. After recording raw material in-situ, I returned to the studio to create a parallel synthetic space responding to the original one, using synthesizers, beats, and effects. The whole album was developed with the analogy of a hallucination in which real and imaginary space are intertwined into a sonic, visceral trip.

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