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"A ringing that approaches from the distance. An accumulation of harmonics, of a fullness, a density, craning ever upward. The examination of states of solitude, the vast expanse of singularity, the violence of realization. Minor percussion mingles with gasps of tape manipulation. The mangled fidelity, a blown-out tonality: are we in the red?"
- Lea Bertucci, 2019 

"These tracks are based on excerpts from electronic improvisations investigating the cycle, as opposed to the loop, in arrangements. Sounds portray various irreversible emergencies, such as an attack from a psychic vampire or a spilled glass of water." - Kyle Eyre Clyde, 2019  

3 color risograph edition of 100.  Digital download included.

Kyle Eyre Clyd - Dramatization

From the 3rd Album of Seuil Optique : "Les Habitants" (Eg0cide Productions, 2020).

Seuil Optique, duo of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, offers a unique experience of listening to music in the dark. Immersing the stage and the public in constant darkness, Seuil Optique creates soundscapes where electronic transmissions, acousmatic landscapes and refined drones intersect. By jostling the boundaries between listening, blind manipulation of machines and immersive experience offered to the audience, the two musicians explore new sound tracks, in permanent dialogue with hybrid musicalities and the practice of singular instruments: persephone, field recording, electro-acoustic devices, matrices and samples.
On stage, they use deliberately “open” improvisation strategies and defeat the boundaries between manipulating machines in the dark, harmonics tinged with noise-producing materials and the “eyes closed” hearing experience offered to the public.

Seuil Optique’s third album, Les Habitants, focuses on the practice of electronic improvisation. Recorded in three days and three nights, in Paris, in total darkness, Les Habitants aims to be a place of recognition of gesture as a creative act. No preparation beforehand, no benchmark, no intro or climax, only the interaction between two ways of producing spectral imprints. In this sound dialogue, electronics are the vector of total sincerity: the inhabitants target the listener, bringing them to live the experience of the moment that guides the “non-idiomatic” music of Seuil Optique, in which each sound, each transmitted waveform is dedicated to the inhabitants of the present.

Fruitful Land

organ improvisation and electronics
Memorial Church, Harvard 28.09.18
electronics, 2020

sunset, melt, down

Cylinder

A new 5 track mini album released on Hibernate Recordings.
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/nia

Charitable fundraising has been hit very hard by the COVID-19 so as part of #TwoPointSixChallenge we plan to release 26 free download/pay as much as you can afford Ep or albums on Hibernate Bandcamp page over the coming weeks. 100% income being donated to charities. All proceeds from this EP go to Medicins Sans Frontiers.

blochemy - Nia (Hibernate) Sampler

Excerpt of the upcoming Sha 'ir majnun album.
Full album at https://deofol.bandcamp.com/album/-

ASSUR I

Sometimes I just need to do the arpeggiator thing! Video of this at https://youtu.be/gXJkU6rnEX4

https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd

Easel Arpeggiator YaYas

study on graphical composition, produced 2019.

Untitled V

Cocoquantus, Tetrax, Deerhorn, Plumbutter. Bliss.

Psylic

Impulsive Habitat, 2014.

The material of this work is based on a static recording: I installed a microphone under the roof of my father's house in a small village in Alsace (France) for one year. Each day, I recorded one minute of sound on the hour at four different intervals: midnight, morning, noon and evening. I subsequently selected one recording per week for each of the intervals.
These (untreated) recordings were then sewn together in four different tracks, one for each time of day, spanning the course of a year. This results in a cyclical movement consisting of four different time-lapse sequences that trace the entirety of a year in one place.

A Year's Hours Behind my Father's House (Excerpt: Midnight, from May to September)

composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

Easel Arpeggiator YaYas

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