35'22 or 14'57 2011
CD- ISWC: T-702.776.156.6 Charles-Edouard Platel, composer
Just awake dancing shapes come to disconcerting ballets. Furtive transformations of fleeting assemblies of selected and carefully re-forged metallic noises.
A subtle sound environment for some art exhibition, intended to be played nonstop. The four parts are separated by silences of variable durations.
Sound material: concrete music using metallic and aerial sound samples (thanks to Ghislain Delusseau, sculptor of waste material), Randolon random sequencer.
A few words about the specific composition process: the recorded samples were individually assigned to MIDI-controlled sampler tracks on the digital audio workstation. To create the music, multi-track MIDI sequences were produced using Randolon, a software tool I designed with Max/MSP to produce experimental music. It consists of a random/fractal sequencer, preset and then played in real time by the improvising musician, while distributing parallel MIDI streams to the workstation's multitrack listening and recording. The final work results of the precise stereo mix of these tracks.
"Persistent Objects" was played in a loop in public premiere at the Cécile Dachary's exhibition during the Hélium artistic course in the vallée de Cheveuse, in November 2011.
Danse de l'univers - Jacques Renaud (détail)
