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Installation by Ruxandra Mitache
Electronic Sounds by Pierre Ajavon
Collaboration with visual artist Ruxandra Mitache, composed for the art installation "Hearing with the eyes" (2021).
Exhibition Basel/Switzerland 2021

Hearing With The Eye

Bye Ryuichi (piano on Ophélie)

Sur l'onde calme et noire où dorment les étoiles
La blanche Ophélia flotte comme un grand lys
Flotte très lentement, couchée en ses longs voiles…

Voici plus de mille ans que la triste Ophélie
Passe, fantôme blanc, sur le long fleuve noir;
Voici plus de mille ans que sa douce folie
Murmure sa romance à la brise du soir

Le vent baise ses seins et déploie en corolle
Ses grands voiles bercés mollement par les eaux;
Les saules frissonnants pleurent sur son épaule
Sur son grand front rêveur s'inclinent les roseaux
C'est qu'un souffle , tordant ta chevelure
A ton esprit rêveur portait d'étranges bruits;
Que ton coeur écoutait le chant de la Nature
Dans les plaintes de l'arbre et les soupirs des nuits;

C'est que la voix des mers folles, immense râle
Brisait ton sein d'enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C'est qu'un matin d'avril, un beau cavalier pâle
Un pauvre fou, s'assit muet à tes genoux!

- Et le Poète dit qu'aux rayons des étoiles
Tu viens chercher, la nuit, les fleurs que tu cueillis
Et qu'il a vu sur l'eau, couchée en ses longs voiles
La blanche Ophélia flotter, comme un grand lys

dominique dalcan - Ophelie - Hector zazou ryuichi sakamoto

Borusiade - Spellbound (Surrender)
Alessandro Adriani - Interdependence
Tolouse Low Trax - Mental Tent Wicked
Scientific Dreamz Of U - Mystic Revelation Of Science (Black Merlin's Extended Sword Mix)
Tapan - Poison High
Moni Moni - 26,172 (US) Bombs Dropped On Short Notice
WLDV - Millenium
Privacy - Query B
Squarewave - Clash
Iñigo Vontier - Macaco
Helena Hauff - Continuez Mon Enfant Vous Serez Traite En Consequence

11 - 23 - 17

Marché - Epices - Pointe -à-Pitre

Intolerância Humana

stormy petrel

the light of all light

The Who Sell Out

Kids! Do You Want Kids (Pete Townshend Demo)

Since 2019, Shipwrec’s ambient wing has been in hibernation; waiting for the right artist and record to revive it. That musician has now arrived, Ochre with his album: Eye to Windward. Ten soundscapes make up this journey into the rich and textured world of this creator. The first steps on this excursion reverberate in the autumnal haze of “First Builders” before the shaded pathways of “Rising Tide” and “Evacuation.” The listener finds themselves in a fissure, between different audio scenes; the sea-sawing waves of “Socotra”, the undulations of the astral “Parinherm,” the waking dream of “Fiddlehead”, as Ochre paints in subtle tones and sounds. Fiction and film are sources of inspiration, the playful fantasies of “A Current Under Sea” and the sci-fi score of “Sand Engine” conjure vivid images through sound. A record of striking understated beauty.

Release date vinyl: 5th of april 2021
Release date digital: 5th of april 2021

Cat# Phainomena02
Written & produced by Christopher Leary
Artwork by Nathaniel Reeves
Mastered by Christopher Leary
Distributed by Clone Distribution
© Phainomena 2021

Ochre -  An Eye To Windward [Phainomena02]

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Pierre Ajavon (b. 1966, Paris) is a visual artist, composer & musician.
He lives and works in Paris (France).
Ajavon studied sociology and ethnomusicology with a particular focus on psychedelic culture, and he embraced video art as his main medium as it allowed him to combine image with sound.
His works appeared at art institutions such as LACDA (Los Angeles), Fondazione Ragghianti (Italy), Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland), Pereira Art Museum (Colombia) and CICA Museum (South Korea) as well as events like the Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Colombia), Experimenta (Portugal), Cairotronica (Egypt), AIDFF (Greece) and MADATAC (Spain).
Pierre Ajavon is also a musician and composer, and references to psychoanalysis and surrealism as well as the study of the relationship between pop imagery and sound constitute the backbone of his artistic practice.

Hearing With The Eye

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