Michel Redolfi: Sonic Waters #2

1 Effractions

2 Sunny Afternoon At Bird Rock Beach

3 Full Scale Ocean

Lanie Goodman - flute

Melissa Morgan - harp

Michel Redolfi - Synclavier synthesizers

Ensemble Ricercar - live synthesizers

From Michel Redolfi, the Jacques Cousteau of Electronic Music, a wonderful mix of Underwater soundscapes and Synclavier parts from 1983 with live synthesizer parts performed by the Ensemble Ricercar in 1989.

Born 1951, Michel Redolfi worked from early on in his career on his own unique approach in terms of designing utopic musical projects: ranging from the "body speakers" ("Whoops!", 1977) to "sleep in" concerts (at the Roman Baths of Strasbourg at the MUSICA festival 1984), his electronic music is often performed trough new systems, creating an original rapport with the audience.

It is music to be experienced where the sensorial discovery is as important as the social event; his Underwater Music is the most striking exemple of this tendency. Pioneering this concept as early as 1979 in California to create music in this silent medium, Redolfi was able to study the auditory physiology while one is immersed, to patent an innovative underwater speaker, and as of 1981, to assemble the first floating audiences in the "Sonic Waters" of pools and oceans all over the world. His series of underwater concerts were performed in various cities including Los Angeles, Montreal, Rome, Paris, La Rochelle, Nice and Hong Kong.

He has produced permanent soundscapes for new French parks and national museums, including Parc de la Villette (Paris), Parc Botanique Phoenix (Nice), and the Centre National de la Mer (Boulogne-sur-mer).

Enjoy Michel Redolfi's armchair-listening adaptations of his sublime submarine synphonics.

[maybe reposted soon]