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Jean-Luc GUIONNET
“Tournures Cessent / Tournures Cessent Orchestrales”
Tournures Cessent 29:50
Electroacoustic composition by Jean-Luc Guionnet.
Commissioned by INA GRM for PRÉSENCES ÉLECTRONIQUE (2016).
Tournures Cessent Orchestrales 30:51
Composition for orchestra by Jean-Luc Guionnet.
Played by Onceim and Motus.
Commissioned by La Muse en Circuit (CNCM).
Played by ONCEIM & MOTUS (2019-2020).
Recorded on the 5th of october 2021 by Olivier Lamarche
& Jean-Luc Guionnet, in Théâtre de Vanves.
13,00€
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2 LP
Jean-Luc GUIONNET
“L’épaisseur de l’air”
Thin Wrist Recordings release L'épaisseur de l'air (the thickness of air) by Jean-Luc Guionnet. After more than three decades playing the alto saxophone, this is the French artist's first solo saxophone album. Since the 1990s, Guionnet has built a renowned and thrilling oeuvre of works with pipe organs, electronics, and field recordings as both an improvisor and composer; L'épaisseur de l'air finally documents his dedication to exposing sides of the alto saxophone that quite simply never existed until he developed them. His tone is as clear as direct sunlight, so when he boils it in mud or scratches at it as if for air, his emotion is palpable. A double-LP masterpiece and a definitive statement about the profound physical relationship between an improvisor and their instrument. A student of Xenakis at the Sorbonne, Guionnet has constantly explored the philosophical side of music; his work interrogates fundamental questions about skill, intuition, experience, and performance that arise through improvisation. He has instigated and featured in unexpected collaborations such as performances with noted British philosopher Ray Brassier and artists Seijiro Murayama Mattin as well as his long running artistic partnerships with dancer and choreographer Lotus Edde Khouri. For this album, Guionnet retreated to a barn in Brittany, where he recorded by himself at night over the course of a few weeks. Each of the nine improvisations -- spanned across two LPs -- uncovers such particular sonic territory that it's a miracle the whole adds up to such a complete statement. But by pushing space and silence so startlingly and oblongly into the pieces, the gnarled, gritty textures of his tone begins to make sense as a response to time that is forever shifting in such unpredictable ways that you better get into it while it's still coming out. Direct metal mastering at Calyx Mastering Berlin. Pressed at Record Technology, Inc. (RTI). Deluxe gatefold double LP with download; Heavy tip-on jacket including debossed and embossed inserts.
34,00€
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LP
Jean-Luc GUIONNET
“Arantzazu Close & Far”
Nearly 15 years after the edition "Maison.House II-V" CD - in duet with his electroacoustic friend Eric La Casa - Vert Pituite La Belle is pleased to collaborate once again with Jean-Luc Guionnet, this time alone and at the organ.
For Arantzazu Close & Far, the vinyl medium makes perfect sense: two sides, two versions of the same sound event, the recording of the same improvisation on the organ of the basilica of the monastery of Arantzazu in the Spanish Basque country, realized during a residency of a few days in this high-place of the history of the region at the invitation of the collective AudioLab.
On the first side, we hear the sound recording made by a pair of microphones arranged closer to the organ while the second we hear the same improvisation but from the bottom of the monastery.
16,00€
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CD
Jean-Luc GUIONNET
“Plugged inclinations”
“I work since 1993 to an experimental approach of the church organ (CD “Pentes”, “Tirets”) :
1) we control a machine
2) the organ is halfway between vehicle and artificial intelligence : it is a public transport : a ship, a barque, a boat, a building within a building
3) passing the machinery to the filter of listening, gesture and architecture
4) bringing the blast into the space : ventilate
5) make this organ sound not like this other one
6) express the organ as one says about lemon.
The blast is endless.
And since 2005, to an extension of the results to the electric organ (CD “Gezurrezko Joera”) :
1) find ways to get into the experience with an electric vehicle
2) arranging keyboards as we used to assemble organs (great, récit, positive, choir)
3) consider the functional state of each keyboard and play with it
4) go back in the machine as we go back in a train of thought
5) transplant of an helpful member, a mixing desk is added to the keyboards : carburetor, distributor, central nervous system
6) microphones take care in examining the device
7) no other effects than these : organic device.
And the electric current is endless too.
Neither the blast nor the current do need me.”
Jean-Luc Guionnet
10,00€