varech is about being stranded. It comes from places in
isolation, from which the outside can be seen ﬂowing around. An empty museum, an island locked in the tidal currents, a home in the forest frozen; points where layers of angst and focus are sewn.
Inside the apparent stasis, processes unfolding and approaching larger forces immingle. Hence appear the sounding shapes of coastline memories and innermost motions, a watchtower turned towards forthcoming change.

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anticlinal 49.55 is about folding time and letting reminiscences from latent landscapes surface. Heterogeneous yet similar textures run parallel, go out of focus and reappear once coalesced. A new place takes shape, and dissolves while touching the tape.

anticlinal 49​.​55

(draft for an album in the works)
crumpled tape loop, mixer, modular system, piano, Pacific coastal forest.

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Winner of the 20th Música Viva International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition (2019),
awarded by a jury composed of Gilles Gobeil (Canada), Trevor Wishart (United Kingdom) and Miguel Azguime (Portugal).

This piece explores the memory that sounds carry from the moment they were taped. In stitching together candid recordings made years apart, it attempts to conjure the relative events as well as to cast them in a sonic amulet.
The tension between the acoustic sources, the digital projections and their inmost content draw a network of remanences, a multiplex of signs. The work becomes a pool of possibles, never to be decoded but open for all to wander.

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Cette pièce se conçoit à partir d'enregistrements réalisés spécifiquement pour elle, dans une fenêtre temporelle et géographique restreinte.
Ici, les enregistrements d'environnements se concentrent sur quelques lieux reliés entre eux par l'imaginaire de l'opérateur-écoutant. Ils sont donnés à entendre avec le souhait de leur laisser une durée permettant l'installation d'une écoute du détail.
Le cœur conceptuel de la pièce, autant à l'enregistrement que dans l'atelier, est de considérer l'espace sonore de chaque lieu comme un filtre à travers lequel les sons anthropiques locaux sont réappropriables, et prennent une valeur différente dans le paysage.
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Sounds in this piece were taped in a few days of revisiting places bound together by the imagination and memory of the recording listener.
The sonic space of each place is considered as a filter through which anthropic sounds are reappropriable and shape new contours in landscapes.

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