I made a videoclip for this track :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDbigeqIuA

MACROWAVES

綠

The piece is based on a 42 minutes-long improvisation in D that consists in 3 similar but unsynchronized loops, thus creating a potentially infinite random pattern. Those loops where modified several times during the recording process : slowed down half speed, back to normal, up twice the speed, and/or reversed.
Like a landscape that is always similar to itself, but at the same time always different, seamlessly changing. Or like a walk in such a landscape.
This background is cut into 12 tracks to which are added field recordings, like postcards, or like still frame single sequence shots. They were recorded in several places between 2015 and 2020. The field recordings are like figures, specific events that occur on the background.
This album is a tribute to Ambient Music, New-Age and 環境音楽 [Kankyō Ongaku]. Just another attempt to build a contemplation space, to provide a slowed down time. Paradoxically, a certain sense of nature retrieved through technology.

01 - 00:00.000 - 04:17.423 Tumiac, France, 2020. Spring I.
02 - 04:17.423 - 08:48.540 Rio De Janeiro, 2015. Sounds I.
03 - 08:48.540 - 13:31.330 Tumiac, France, 2020. Higher Laws I.
04 - 13:31.330 - 18:04.149 Signy, France, 2020. House-Warming.
05 - 18:04.149 - 23:27.268 Tumiac, France, 2015. Solitude I.
06 - 23:27.268 - 26:15.026 Le Poulguin, France, 2019. The Pond In Winter.
07 - 26:15.026 - 28:09.305 Tumiac, France, 2015. Solitude II.
08 - 28:09.305 - 32:07.104 Kyōto, Japan, 2016. The Ponds.
09 - 32:07.104 - 34:15.504 Tumiac, France, 2020. Higher Laws II.
10 - 34:15.504 - 36:06.507 Rio De Janeiro, 2015. Sounds II.
11 - 36:06.507 - 38:49.979 Tumiac, France, 2020. Spring II.
12 - 38:49.979 - 99:99.999 Tumiac, France, 2020. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.

Thanks to Zoé Bouteleux & Manuel Devier for their technical support on photo editing.

Guitar loops i made a few years ago,
with field recordings from Tumiac and Kyōto.

Interlude 2 (Warm Rain)

Interlude 1 (Cold Rain)

Recording, composing, mixing by Jules Valentin.
Final mix by Boris Allenou.
No mastering.
Cover art by Jules Valentin.

First aired 14 09 2022
on EHFM radio
on the invitation of Boris Allenou
as part of his radio show Arne's Yellow Bucket.
www.mixcloud.com/ehfm/arnes-yellow-bucket-w-jules-valentin-140922/

Materials :
• Birds, insects, and a plane, recorded in Fay, France, 2022.
• Birds in the mountains of Calice Ligure, Italy, 2022, recorded at dusk.
• Recording of an improvisation on a detuned piano, Paris, 2017.
• A cleaning truck recorded through the window of an apartment on sixth floor on boulevard du Temple, Paris, France, 2020.
• Church bells & voices recorded in Verbania, Lago Maggiore, Italy, 2020.
• Recording of Narumi Iwase (piano) interpreting Saint-Saëns, Les Cloches de Las Palmas, étude #4 op.111, in the Salle Cortot (architect Auguste Perret), Paris, France, 20 november 2019.
• Several recordings of a section of the movie L’Avventura (1960), by Michelangelo Antonioni, through poor quality speakers, Montreuil, France, 2022.
• A message left on my voice mail, Paris, 2021, recorded under a blanket.
• An improvisation on guitar recorded under the rain in Athée, France, 2022.
• Bells, bowls, whistles, recorded in Montreuil, France, 2022. 
credits
released November 4, 2022

Thanks to Boris Allenou and Manuel Devier.

Memory Spaces

Insularity
2015
Music and images by jules/valentin.

I made a videoclip for this track :
https://vimeo.com/julesvalentin/insularity
Or :
https://youtu.be/vaw2qcYENNE

I strongly recommend the use of a headphone.
The title refers to one of my favorite paintings, "The Deep" by Jackson Pollock.
All sounds on this track were recorded and mixed at home.
Merci à Zoé Bouteleux-Boisnard pour les retouches sur l'image.
https://julesvalentin.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jules-valentin
https://vimeo.com/julesvalentin
https://xtetx.org/

Insularity

Noir Océan
2015
Music and images by jules/valentin.

I made a videoclip for this track :
https://vimeo.com/julesvalentin/noirocean
Or :
https://youtu.be/ab0GxwttC1k

I strongly recommend the use of a headphone.
The title refers to one of my favorite paintings, "The Deep" by Jackson Pollock.
All sounds on this track were recorded and mixed at home.
Merci à Zoé Bouteleux-Boisnard pour les retouches sur l'image.
https://julesvalentin.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jules-valentin
https://vimeo.com/julesvalentin
https://xtetx.org/

Noir Océan

The Deep
2015
Music and images by jules/valentin.

I made a videoclip for this track :
http://youtu.be/wg4Ct-07ZYk

I strongly recommend the use of a headphone.
The title refers to one of my favorite paintings, "The Deep" by Jackson Pollock.
All sounds on this track were recorded and mixed at home.
Merci à Zoé Bouteleux-Boisnard pour les retouches sur la pochette d'album. 
https://julesvalentin.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jules-valentin
https://vimeo.com/julesvalentin
https://xtetx.org/

The Deep

This is a short jingle that I made for a friend's podcast, LegitLab.
All the sound materials were recorded in Normandie, during the summer 2015, with the help of Alice, Martin, Alexis and Sandrine.
You can listen to Marion's podcast LegitLab here (in french) : https://soundcloud.com/legitlab
The end jingle is a rework of mine by 3EHNT : https://soundcloud.com/3ehnt .

Family

Composed, recorded and produced by Jules Valentin.

This is a soundtrack for the short movie La Halte, by Pablo Albandea & Damien Jibert.
The movie is yet to come.
The movie and the music were inspired by the aphorism "638. The Wanderer" in Friedrich Nietzsche's "Human, All Too Human".

Thanks to Pablo Albandea for commissioning this work.
http://pabloalbandea.com

Thanks to Manuel Devier for the photo editing.
http://www.manueldevier-photography.fr

638. Le Voyageur.

Jules-Valentin Boucher is an architect, a self-taught musician and a researcher.

His musical practice entails solo projects as well as collaborations. His sonic studies fluctuate between ambient music, field recording, drone and improvised music.

His ongoing academic research focuses on minimalism, repetition and indeterminacy in music and architecture.

More info at https://julesvalentin.net/

Jules Valentin

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