14 October 2022
Image - Object from Hans-Jörg Georgi

MOTIONLESS FLIGHT

Création sonore réalisée pour l'installation "Galb’Achalay" d'Abdessamad El Montassir en collaboration avec Matthieu Guillin, compositeur.
Composée originellement sur un système 5.1.
Compositeur: Matthieu Guillin
Poésies/poetry : Badi Wel M'hamed Salem
Voix/voice : Wel Sidi


Galb’Achalay puise dans les formes architecturales du Sahara et ses ruines afin de retracer et raviver ses micro-histoires. Composée à partir de poésies du Sahara, Galb’Achalay emprunte aux chants et récits méconnus de ce territoire pour ouvrir un interstice inédit qui laisse émerger et se déployer une histoire dominée. Galb’Achalay est réalisée en étroite complicité par Abdessamad El Montassir et Matthieu Guillin. 

Visuel – légendes et crédit © Abdessamad El Montassir - ADAGP
Dans le cadre du  "Dispositif de compositeur et compositrice associé(e) dans les scènes pluridisciplinaires" DRAC
Coproduction Maison Salvan, La Biennale – Festival international des arts vivants Toulouse Occitanie 
Résidence de création au studio eOle
Un immense merci à Paul de Sorbier, Wel Sidi et Franck Loiret.

Galb'achalay (5.1 to binaural, only for headphone)

Live performance version of Sounds Of The Modern Hospital, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2014. 

Launch event for the LP 'Sonograph Sound Effects Series Volume 1: Sounds Of The Modern Hospital'.

Sounds of the Modern Hospital, live at CCA, 2014

EDA BROWN_MAD SUMMER DAYS

Funeral

Balade sonore le long du fleuve Rhône depuis sa source dans le glacier éponyme, jusqu'à son delta. Cette œuvre est une commande de l'association IC-EAU/ ID-EAU pour la Foire du Valais 2023 en Suisse, sur la thématique de l'eau.

Portrait sonore de l'entité vivante du fleuve Rhône. Toutes les prises de son ont été effectués dans et autour du fleuve.

UNE VOIX PARCOURT LE RHÔNE

LES MÉTAMORPHOSES DE RHÔNE

SenSen - The Organist

Destiny is a piece made from electronic audio materials created on an analog modular synthesizer following simple processes on signal treatment and the choice of a restrict palette as an aesthetic constraint, while keeping both an overall organic expressivity and a slightly des-articulated quality at the edge of compositional agency.

Variations and antecedents of this piece have been performed live in various electronic music festivals and events. The definitive version is a part of Sisbiosis, a collaborative album put together with the artist and musician Ryoko Akama, released in 2022 on Erstwhile records (US).

https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sisbiosis

Destiny (Excerpt)

Numbers Station is a track part of the Sonologyst album "Shortwave Spectrum".

The new Sonologyst "sonic documentary" delves into the secretive realm of shortwave transmissions; a chronicle of clandestine shortwave transmissions culled from a span of nearly four decades (1982-2021). These mysterious transmissions - repetitive voices, signals, sound pulses, short pieces of music - were collated and edited to compose the tracks of the main album.

Immersed in an isolating fog of dark ambient, deep drone music and cinematic sound art, it provides an auditory exploration of the ongoing Cold War. Originating from covert radio stations engaged in military and espionage endeavours, the tracks unveil a hidden sonic landscape of strategic communication.

The second disc, in its extensive presentation, provides a deeper immersion into these enigmatic broadcasts. Each recording remains unaltered, accompanied only by a ghostly drone. It offers an unfiltered glimpse into the world of clandestine communication, where words are transmitted beneath the radar and in the shadowy confines of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak with graphic design by Abby Helasdottir.

Watch album teaser (YouTube) by Abby Helasdottir: bit.ly/SonologystShortwaveSpectrum

NUMBER STATIONS:

The so-called Number Stations are short-wave radio transmissions, broadcast at various hours of the day, and with variable durations, available on many frequencies and observed and studied for decades by radio amateurs from all over the world. These mysterious transmissions, consisting of voices reading groups of numbers or letters in the international phonetic alphabet, or of Morse code signals or sound pulses, are often preceded by transmission start "alerts" consisting of short pieces of music, sequences of letters or scales of notes, cyclically repeated at set times.

Several studies, conducted by telecommunications experts, have concluded that these transmissions were, and still are, used by numerous secret services to transmit short text messages to their undercover agents, operating in other countries. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, these transmissions suffered a significant decrease, but in recent years other broadcasts have followed the raising of respective new global geopolitical players, and Chinese, Korean and Indian Numbers Stations have been picked up.

Shortwave is cheap, reliable, and, unlike web communications, cannot be intercepted or blocked except in the event of a nuclear explosion. The ideal secret communication system in times of new cold war.

Shortwave Spectrum

Numbers Station

Premiered in the context of the 2nd International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers 2017, which took place in July 2017 in Città di Castello, Italy.
www.ilsuonoacademy.com

ensemble Suono Giallo
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.net
Michele Bianchini, tenor saxophone
Laura Mancini, percussion

Conducted by Angus Lee.

Program Notes:
碎瞳。L'œil brisé. Broken Eye.

https://soundcloud.com/yiqing-zhu-555632457

ZHU, Yiqing: L'Oeil Brisé - for tenor sax, perc, and elec (2017)

Goat Coat

For bookings: meagreresource@hotmail.com

Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Entr’acte and Canti Magnetici. He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally.

Sounds of the Modern Hospital, live at CCA, 2014

Mark Vernon

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