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The thing about France Jobin's music that never fails to impress is that it works on so many levels. Listen to it at the threshold of perception (the way it is mastered) or at very high volume, on headphones or through loudspeakers, and you will hear new sonic relationships, new structures, a new logic every time. Things simultaneously are and aren't as they seem; sounds you hear are and aren't really there.

Montréal sound/installation artist France Jobin has come a long way since her days as a blues keyboardist in the 1980s. In 1999, after a hiatus that lasted a decade, during which she raised two sons, she turned to experimental electronic music of the very quiet, rumbling, abstracted kind, and started performing and releasing music under the moniker i8u. Slowly but with great assurance, she built a much-lauded career and kept on refining her art, ever digging deeper into the core of sound. When the revered LINE label offered her an album (Valence) in 2012, she abandoned her alias and started using her own name.

In her own words:

«The Illusion of Infinitesimal represents another chance to refine the unique essence of each sound and composition, in an effort to better communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.

A parallel could be drawn from particles of matter, which, "as far as we know, are infinitesimal points of zero size, yet they have measurable amounts of angular momentum. Does the concept of rotation even make sense for a featureless speck? Angular momentum seems to be a more foundational concept than rotation itself. The angular momentum, or spin, of a single particle is restricted in strange ways. It can have only certain values, and not all values are allowed for all particles." (1)

Perfection and uncertainty.»

(1) Collage of quotes from Jim Pivarski, "Spin", Symmetry Magazine, March 2013.

France Jobin - 0

A Rework of the track "Si" by Nils Frahm for Nils' Screws Reworked project 2014.

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Si (Sleep Orchestra Rework)

a track from the new album '[m2014/32-07] small tales for urban living' (http://restive.za.net/sound/discs/m32.html) available on bandcamp.
thank you to Felix Blume (https://soundcloud.com/felixblume) and all the folks at freesound.org for making their recordings available for use.

open to persuasion

Excerpt from the new album Tppr
nothing without
Concrete / Field
Yves De Mey
Chra
Joe Ahmed
Grief Athletes 
David Oxley
Chris Dooks
TVO
DIL23
Farmer Glitch
Rabid Gravy
Hermetech
Thee Balancer
Kendle Mintcake
Antony Ryan
Simplicity is Beauty

Laica - Tppr Excerpt II

Branch sounds built up in layers with a looper.

Cortége

11 Si ay perdut mon saber - Ponç d'Ortafà Jordi Savall

Okayshades Remix of 'Could We Leave This' by Lucy Kruger from the album "Summer's Not That Simple" available on Bandcamp - https://lucykruger.bandcamp.com/track/could-we-leave-this

Lucy Kruger - Could We Leave This (Okayshades Remix)

Mud Flat Minor

At the mountain Las Narices close to Coyotillos, storm is arriving and some thunders are clapping, before the rain. The sheperd and their goats are coming down, and Luz is coming to me at the end to have a chat. Some dogs are barking and coming down with the goats. 

Recorded by a ORTF setup with 2 Schoeps CCM4 Microphones in a Cinela Windshield. On a Sound Devices 633 recorder
Original recording in Wave 96K 24bit
Sound Ref MXF190617T10
GPS 23.315748 -101.184082
Same sound on Freesound in Wave.
Recorded during the project "Desert's Light" by Félix Blume & Pierre Costard in June 2019

Thunders and sheperd in the mountain Las Narices

Recorded by an ORTF setup (Schoeps CCM4x2) on a Sound Devices Mixpre6
Original recording in Wave, 96k, 24bit
GPS: -22.392431,-44.553263
Sound Ref:  BR-190812-07
Recorded during the Interativos 2019 organized by Silo
Download on Freesound here https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/479286/

Toads during the night in a pound, in Serrinha do Alambri (Brazil)

Blue.Hour explores the high contrast colors created in the landscape during “l’heure bleue,” the period of twilight each evening when there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. Directly following the ‘Golden Hour,’ know for its diffused yet powerful light, the Blue Hour retains the diffusion but lacks the strong light source giving this period of the day an especially melancholic and meditative atmosphere.

Blue.Hour is presented here in stereo with some compositional elements added to make it more suitable for home listening.

Yann Novak - Blue.Hour (Excerpt)

Mic Setup AB with 2 B&k 4006 Omni Microphones
Recorder Sound Devices 833
Original Recording 96kHz 24bit
Sound Ref: MX-200201T04
GPS: 20,162712 -96,860567
Recorded during a Residency at Casa Proal (Veracruz, México)

Light rain in a field of bananas trees

One Hour Thunder & rain during the night in the middle of the bananas trees, in Veracruz. 

Recorded by a setup ORTF with 2 Schoeps CCM4
On a Sound Devices Mixpre6 recorder
Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
During a residency at Casa Proal (San Rafael, Veracruz)
Same sound on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/536679/

1 hour : Thunder & Rain in Veracruz during the night

Sound recording of cicada singing during the summer in South of France (Minervois).

Recorded by a setup ORTF with 2 Schoeps CCM4
On a Sound Devices Mixpre 6 recorder
Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit

Same sound on Freesound
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/536915/

Summer ambience in south of France with the cicadas singing

The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.

an experimental sound project with a focus on generative processes, field recording and found sound.

open to persuasion

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