Name: Chessboard by Seuil Optique
Duration: 3 min 58 s
Description: www.seuiloptique.com

An old and rusty trawler "Golden Rose" moaning by the dock in Reposaari fishing harbor, Western Finland. The first Herring Gulls in the background from 5.20

https://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210228/

(MKH8020ab 80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, no processing done, Flac)

Old Trawler moaning - 28/2/2021 - Reposaari Harbor

Puerto de El Musel, Gijón, Spain.
25/10/2014

Amarres en el Puerto de El Musel (Contact microphones)

ephemeral flux (live)

Performed by Ben Clark and Antonin Granier on 13.6.19 at LOOSE, LINE, LAYER in St. Mary-at-Hill, London.

The piece invites a child-like curiosity towards the instrument, and simply investigates its sonic possibilities. The materials arose from working collaboratively with percussionists Ben Clark and Antonin Granier. The first movement explores flexibility, the second looping elements, the third resonance.

Piece for three tuned cowbells (2019)

SpiritEncounters II, from my first album, QUANTUM CALL. A Littl'antenna Records Production. Powered by Belgian NeuMusik. Available on my Bandcamp page.
resonantlines.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-call

SpiritEncounters II

Short excerpt of a 40 minutes live improv 
15 October 2019 @ Les Instants Chavirés
Sharing the bill with Kate Carr, a concert produced by La Fabrique Agitée
https://www.instantschavires.com/kate-carrvalerie-vivancos/

Valerie Vivancos Live Instants Chavirés  15 Oct 2019 (excerpt)

An improvisation made in my studio in April 2020 on the modular synth. It is largely based on ethnographic cylinder recordings from the Kodaly archive, made in April 1914. These small fragments are sampled with oscillators controlling the grain, loop size and time points of the samples. Pitch and envelope followers on the samples in turn control these oscillators and other physically modelled sounds. Yannis Kyriakides, Amsterdam, April 2020.

A Ghost Of Spring

Live improvisation by
Daniel Diaz, electric bass
André Charlier, drums

For this Haiku:
"two voices that sound alike
make their way...
clouds of blossoms"

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Photo by Igor Karimov

Two Voices On The Wild Side (naviarhaiku347)

Chessboard

Standard

The human brain processes emotion by categorizing all input according to two responses: sympathetic and parasympathetic (i.e. “fight or flight”). Imagine a graph with two axes: one axis representing a state of stimulation (from excited to calm), the other depicting stimuli as being negative or positive.

In his book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, the late Clifford Nass refers to these two plots respectively as “arousal” and “valence.” Whether an emotion makes us feel angry, humiliated, serene, jubilant, frightened or something else, the brain’s job is to determine what level of valence or arousal is appropriate for a given situation. Although Nass’s book doesn’t go into the Goldilocks Zone as such, the author does explore how the brain constantly resets itself chemically in an attempt to keep us “just right.”

For this weirdly industrial-sounding piece, Suss Müsik attempted to capture the polarities and nuances between valence and arousal. The main pounding riff (the “arousal” side) was created with a pitch-shifter applied to acoustic guitar. The “valence” side is an analog synth wash combined with audio scans of two-dimensional artwork. The two sides meet somewhere in the middle, thanks to some liberal digital-delay phasing and a Ditto looping pedal.

The piece, entitled Nass, was recorded live to 8-track with no overdubs. The image was created by visual artist B.G. Madden.

More on this 461st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goldilocks Zone (The Assignment: Navigate a sonic space between the hospitable and the inhospitable), at:

https://disquiet.com/0461/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Nass [Disquiet0461]

Seuil Optique, duo of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, originally dedicated themselves to musical practice in complete darkness, where each sound was generated without any visual aid. This method allowed the duo to develop an acute sensitivity to the acoustic properties of their instruments and the surrounding space. Seuil Optique is interested in the physical properties of sound, intuitively manipulates machines, and creates immersive sound environments. The two musicians invite the audience to active listening and total immersion. Their philosophy is based on the idea that music is not just to be heard, but to be experienced as a complete sensory experience.
Seuil Optique builds frescoes where electronic impulses, slow gestures and acoustic responses intersect: each of their albums, tells the story of an eyeless camera, of a journey beyond the screen. An ephemeral present filled with the memory of this interior film that everyone projects on their eyelids in the evening.

https://seuiloptique.bandcamp.com/
www.seuiloptique.com

Chessboard

Seuil Optique

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