Release Date: 21/09/2014 (vinyl & digital)

In 2011, Fred Bigot took off on a two-month road trip across the USA funded by Institut Français's research grant 'Hors-les-murs' and Gaite Lyrique in Paris. This 10 “ vinyl release, published on French imprint 'Les Disques on Rotin Reúnis', presents the fourth manifestation of the results of that journey, which formerly included a weekly, online sound report, an installation at Gaite Lyrique and a performance featuring Werner Hirsch. Bigot's project presents his research into the use and form of 'field recordings'. Using sounds collected from his journey, he cuts and arranges these as rhythms and melodies, sometimes using instruments and voices as interpreters of these sounds, reenacting and reformulating, giving the field recordings a new basis, a new lease of life and new purpose with a prominent, anti-archival stance.

The vinyl features five tracks, three of which appear on one side but appear only as one track – this is a so-called puzzle record, first invented by Jimmy Rogers in the 1930s. Side A features two tracks, 'A1' and 'A2', while side B features 'B1', ‘B1’ and ‘B1’, three tracks placed on three parallel grooves, making it near impossible to determine which track will actually play when the needle is set down. The immaculate packaging is characteristic feature of the label, run by Nice-based fine artist Arnaud Maguet, and features personal notes, sketches and photos made by Bigot and his companion during the course of his trip. It provides fascinating reading material and a good visual backdrop to the unique music and record.



A1 bon voyage

A2 roule

B1 last wav

B1 lost america

B1 sampletrip



Composition for Finnish artist Anu Pennanen - Berlin 2009

La première est la modification d'un paysage sonore et/ou de voix pour en créer un autre. Voici deux exemples qui illustre cette première méthode :

Reality Dub (extrait)

Ceci a été enregistré en 1999 lors d'une performance dans un bus « équipé » d'un système de prise de son et de sonification. Des micros étaient placés à l'exterieur du véhicule et les matières sonores captées (ici les rues de Montréal) ré-injectées via le musicien sur les haut-parleurs, à l'interieur du bus. Ici la modification est faite en temps réel.

Did you ever see Piémontèse Hills ? (extrait)

Quelques années plus tard je renouvelai le procedé sur une pièce de Célia Houdart mais cette fois en utilisant la voix des acteurs comme seule source pour créer un paysage sonore imaginaire, celui du Piémont, peut être...

La seconde méthode est la composition d'un paysage sonore connu par définition, mais réalisé en utilisant seulement les instruments de musiques, quelque chsoes qui se rapproche un peu du bruiteur de cinéma :

Les Halles


Did you ever see Piemontese hills?

Les Halles

Outside

Reality Dub

Redoux

Rotozaza

Folkotron Test1

Klangfarb UAAEOOEON

Folkotron Test3

Road Soundtrack

my first field recordings - new york manhattan 1992.

05 Newyork#2

Moog, microphone, filters, some soundscape of Louverné, west of France, late at night, in spring, 2000.

07 Inthecountryside 1

06 Inthecountryside 2

08 Inthecountryside 3

A few excerpts of music compositions for dansers from 1989 until today.

Verso_vertigo

22_verso_vertigo_3

Shrabmhi

Redoux is the sound piece I created for Sylvain Prunenec's choreography. It involves 6 dancers on stage.  Six guitar amplifiers were placed on stage. The sound was performed from a computer and a patch max/msp created specially for me by Kasper T.Toeplitz for this occasion. in 2005

dicotyledone070194exc

A few excerpts from music compositions made for theater plays.
1998 - 2000

Rotozaza_Tram

Dyesph_Tram

Fred Bigot is a French musician and performer also know as Electronicat. His work is characterized by its constant switch between experimental, noise and pop music.
Since the mid 90´s, he combines electronic music, analogue synths, drum machines, loop machines, vocals and guitars, all kind of ideas coming from his performances and creates a pounding, fuzzy, wah-wah distorted psychedelic electro sound that has become his trademark.
He worked together with other internationally renowned electronic music producers and musicians, such as Gerhard Potuznik, Patrick Pulsinger, Khan, Catriona Shaw and J.G Thirwell...
To date he has released numerous albums and singles on international labels (Holy Mountain, Onitor, Disko b, Optical Sound, Ldrr) and produced tracks for pour Beans, Miss le Bomb, Marina Ribatski (ex- Bondo de Role), remixes for Depeche Mode, Numbers, Bretzel Göring (Stereo Total). 
Fred has performed alongside such cult-acts as Adult. and Stereolab and been joined on stage by revered musicians such as Felix Kubin, Magas, Khan, Max Turner, Timo Kaukolampi to name but a few. His shows “of insane proportion” have gained adulatory praise from audiences and critics alike in the most diverse locations, from Beijing to Bucharest to New York and back to Berlin where he currently lives and works.

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