Son Vitesse-Lumière REPOST

Francois Bayle - Son Vitesse-Lumière

Son Vitesse-Lumière = Light Speed-Sound

I. Grandeur nature = Life size (1980)

Imagine an object coming to 'visit' us from many light years away. Journey. Approach. Images of speed. Soundscapes. First contact. Observations. Uneasy movements. Departures and discreet disappearances. . .
Why not 'explain' this piece in such a way? Everyone is free to give his own interpretation. As for the music (don't worry), it can't be related!), it's a question of transformation by compression, distension, disappearance, decomposition, synthesis and other rather alchemic operations.

II. Paysage, personnage, nuage = Landscape, person, cloud (1980)

The 'object', motionless, far away, is connected. It takes its sequence of information. But a sustained note discreetly shows that it is at work. The scene is bare. A desert, an oasis perhaps. Vocalic manifestations; then, suddenly, a commentary. My voice giving a speech. . . It comes in snatches, like interference on a radio. The scene continues. Interference from electric mirages. It seems to be burning, burning and crackling like the film from a great celluloid image.
But if I relate everything, what will there be left to listen to? Everything, in fact.

III. Voyage au centre de le tete = Journey to the center of the head (1981)

First of all, my love of Jules Verne (Espaces inhabitables, Jeita) and his symbols. And also the impossibility of not reflecting the surrealist experience inherited by my generation. We thus 'see' two sound images which come together and begin to converse and respond, adopting one another as two fragments of the same thing: the transformed image of chanting in a monastery, and the natural sound of a woman at home making coffee (inside at the coffee-pot versus centre of the head!).
Indeed, this section is about 'the inside'. The object moves inside us.

IV. Le sommeil d' Euclide = Euclid's sleep (1983)

Two 'forms' occupy the auditory space of this work. The first is radically modified to transcend perception, thus creating an illusion-space, a phantasmagorical effect. The second (including the substantial fragments into which it is broken up) is roughly shaken up; the ear can make out the degrees of order and disorder that are intentionally added to it.

V. Lumière ralentie = Light in slow motion (1983)

Counter-space. Inversion of the general title. End of the journey.
The 'object' has become wind. And half the duration of this piece is taken up by a pattern of interlacing winds. As little phonic resistance as possible. Melodies that are understood, variations in speed, gusts, lulls, whirlwinds, and air movements that may be conveyed by sound (speed-light). Then everything freezes, in straight lines, layers, stripes, projected colours, loops, with flying objects slowly passing through, observing.
Are they listening?
Change of scale; a peaceful night.
Suspension.
But we must end. The 'object' has to leave. Enough information. Or is its energy spent?
No time to waste. It goes, leaving behind just a trace, which soon evaporates. And the earth goes on turning. Of course.
...
And the hostility of the days is still to be overcome. (Francois Bayle)

Tracklisting:

CD1

1. Grandeur nature (1) {18:17}

2. Grandeur nature (2) {13:47}

3. Paysage, personnage, nuage (1) {10:20}

4. Paysage, personnage, nuage (2) {7:16}

5. Paysage, personnage, nuage (3) {6:25}

CD2

1. Voyage au centre de la tete (1) {8:10}

2. Voyage au centre de la tete (2) {6:34}

3. Voyage au centre de la tete (3) {2:02}

4. Voyage au centre de la tete (4) {3:55}

5. Le sommeil d'Euclide (1) {4:12}

6. Le sommeil d'Euclide (2) {3:41}

7. Le sommeil d'Euclide (3) {1:27}

8. Le sommeil d'Euclide (4) {5:59}

9. Le sommeil d'Euclide (5) {5:30}

10. Lumiere ralentie (1) {12:55}

11. Lumiere ralentie (2) {5:35}

12. Lumiere ralentie (3) {3:09}

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L'Experience Acoustique

Francois Bayle - L'Experience Acoustique

For more about Bayle visit this site. (It's a flash site.)
This is volumes 5 & 6 of Bayle's works. Composed between 1970 and 1972.
"It" contains elements from "We Did It Again" by Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt.

Tracklisting:

CD1

1. Themes-sons (1) {0:20}

2. Themes-sons (2) {0:24}

3. Themes-sons (3) {0:31}

4. Themes-sons (4) {0:11}

5. Themes-sons (5) {0:39}

6. I L'aventure du cri: ...l'inconscient de la forme (1) {1:03}

7. I L'aventure du cri: ...l'inconscient de la forme (2) {1:16}

8. I L'aventure du cri: ...l'inconscient de la forme (3) {2:45}

9. I L'aventure du cri: ...l'inconscient de la forme (4) {2:34}

10. I L'aventure du cri: ...l'inconscient de la forme (5) {2:30}

11. I L'aventure du cri: Match nul (1) {2:26}

12. I L'aventure du cri: Match nul (2) {0:45}

13. I L'aventure du cri: Match nul (3) {1:43}

14. I L'aventure du cri: Solitioude (1) {1:59}

15. I L'aventure du cri: Solitioude (2) {0:27}

16. II Le Langage des fleurs: Substance du signe (1) {1:39}

17. II Le Langage des fleurs: Substance du signe (2) {1:54}

18. II Le Langage des fleurs: Substance du signe (3) {1:51}

19. II Le Langage des fleurs: Substance du signe (4) {1:44}

20. II Le Langage des fleurs: Substance du signe (5) {5:46}

21. II Le Langage des fleurs: Theme dechirure {0:36}

22. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore (1) {3:24}

23. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore (2) {2:56}

24. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore (3) {1:51}

25. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore (4) {0:49}

26. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore (5) {0:59}

27. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore (6) {0:24}

28. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore/lignes et points (1) {3:00}

29. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore/lignes et points (2) {1:46}

30. II Le Langage des fleurs: Metaphore/lignes et points (3) {2:41}

31. II Le Langage des fleurs: Journal (1) {1:03}

32. II Le Langage des fleurs: Journal (2) {1:02}

33. II Le Langage des fleurs: Journal (3) {1:02}

CD2
1. III La Preuve par le sens: La langue inconnue (1) {2:30}

2. III La Preuve par le sens: La langue inconnue (2) {1:21}

3. III La Preuve par le sens: La langue inconnue (3) {2:11}

4. III La Preuve par le sens: La langue inconnue (4) {1:55}

5. III La Preuve par le sens: La langue inconnue (5) {2:29}

6. III La Preuve par le sens: Intervalles bleus (1) {1:17}

7. III La Preuve par le sens: Intervalles bleus (2) {1:50}

8. III La Preuve par le sens: Intervalles bleus (3) {3:46}

9. III La Preuve par le sens: Uirapuru (1) {1:11}

10. III La Preuve par le sens: Uirapuru (2) {2:37}

11. III La Preuve par le sens: L'ecriture acoustique (1) {4:38}

12. III La Preuve par le sens: L'ecriture acoustique (2) {1:42}

13. III La Preuve par le sens: L'ecriture acoustique (3) {1:10}

14. III La Preuve par le sens: It (1) {1:32}

15. III La Preuve par le sens: It (2) {1:36}

16. III La Preuve par le sens: It (3) {0:43}

17. IV L'epreuve par le son: Transparence du purgatoire (1) {9:16}

18. IV L'epreuve par le son: Transparence du purgatoire (2) {15:29}

19. V La philosophie du non: Energie libre, energie liee (1) {1:56}

20. V La philosophie du non: Energie libre, energie liee (2) {2:03}

21. V La philosophie du non: Energie libre, energie liee (3) {3:34}

22. V La philosophie du non: Energie libre, energie liee (4) {1:21}


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