2022 repress
LA GRANDE VALLÉE (1993/95), 20’41
Musical composition, design and sound production carried out at the INA grm Studios (Paris) in 1993/95
Original audio recordings in the Drôme and the Mont Ventoux areas
Voice: Hélène Bettencourt
Vocal occurrences: Frédéric Malenfer, Bruno Roche, Lionel Marchetti
Bass clarinet (for processing): Jean Andréo
Commissioned by INA GRM and produced in its studios
Premiered during the Cycle Acousmatique/Maison de Radio France, INA grm (Paris) — 1996
Thanks: François Donato, Jérôme Nœtinger, William Pellier, Bruno Roche, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési
MICRO-CLIMAT (1989/90), 21’33
Micro-climat is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90.
Musical composition, sound design and production, audio recordings in 1989/90 at the CFMI studios in Lyon (Lumière University, Lyon 2)
Premiered at Cycle Acousmatique/Maison de Radio France, INA grm (Paris) — 1991
Special thanks to Xavier Garcia
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"Lionel Marchetti is a major figure of the “third generation” of concrète musicians, a term he values. Listening to these works, imbued with poetry and traversed by micro-narratives, one can indeed retrieve the original concrète spirit, the one that draws from the sonic world, with ears wide open, so as to extract a fertile, rich and multiple substance then shaped and conveyed towards a formal and musical abstraction. Lionel Marchetti has mastered this process, but his real distinctive feature is a truly unique talent for setting climates (as one sets traps) and keeping us on constant alert. The two pieces in this record perfectly illustrate the entrancing dimension of Lionel Marchetti's music, whose charm leads us, through each successive listening, to become voluntary captives so as to better liberate ourselves."
François Bonnet, Paris, 2020
"Jeu du monde" is a collection of around twenty musique concrète pieces which spreads over more than six hours of music.
Each CD has been designed as an audio film which tells a full story. The box set includes previously released works which have long been unavailable, reworked versions of digital releases, as well as unreleased pieces especially composed for this occasion.
With the use of a complex sound palette ( synthesizers, analog and digital manipulation, percussion, low fidelity samplers, radios, Revox, vocals, prepared piano, field recordings... ), Lionel Marchetti takes us through an audio landscape in which the acoustic imagination feeds on nature and its diversity: the desert, the upper atmosphere -mankind - night and day, fire, death, until we disappear into the ocean space...
Includes: 32 page booklet illustrated by Adèle Marchetti
Presentation texts by Denis Boyer, Régis Poulet, Frédéric Neyrat, Yann Leblanc and the composer himself.
Some compositions were co written with Yôko Higashi and Olivier Capparos. Seijiro Murayama, Sébastien Églème, Isabelle Duthoit, Patrick Charbonnier are also featured.
Lionel Marchetti is a French composer of musique concrète and an improviser (various analog and digital electronic instruments and modified speakers ). He also writes poetry and essays on the art of Musique Concrète, as an artist working within the genre.
His musique concrète works follow in the steps of composers such as Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani and Michel Chion.
Pépète Lumière is a festival in France happening every year close to the city of Cluny in the countryside. In 2016, Lionel Marchetti was invited to play there and did a lot of recordings of what was happening. Then he composed in studio a serie of pieces using this sound material + a lot of his own electronic sounds. This was done with the help of Patrick Charbonnier. And together with the CD Benoit Guillaume did a serie of drawings around the festival.
CDR professionnaly duplicated.
Pépète Lumière is a festival in France happening every year close to the city of Cluny in the countryside. In 2016, Lionel Marchetti was invited to play there and did a lot of recordings of what was happening. Then he composed in studio a serie of pieces using this sound material + a lot of his own electronic sounds. This was done with the help of Patrick Charbonnier. This is CDR professionnaly duplicated. You can also find another version with a serie of drawings by Benoit Guillaume.
A new piece of musique concrete from French composer Lionel Marchetti composed in 2003-2005. ’Noord five Atlantica’ is working around the world of the sea, animals and humans using sounds of birds, voices (haïkus), melotron (a keyboard instrument manufatured in the 60s and 70s that uses pre-recorded tape as it´s soundsource), foghorns… Lionel Marchetti has compositions on differents labels like Metamkine, Selektion, Crouton, Absurd, Auscultare, Ground Fault, Musica Genera… He is also an improvisor working a lot with Jérôme Noetinger among others. And he’s part of the Quintet Avant.
Digipack. Limited to 300 copies. “Adèle et Hadrien (le livre des vacances)”. A new piece of musique concrete in two books and ten notebooks (1999-2006) from French composer Lionel Marchetti. A piece of musique concrete around the universe of children. Lionel Marchetti has compositions on differents labels like Metamkine, Selektion, Crouton, Absurd, Auscultare, Ground Fault, Musica Genera… He is also an improvisor playing with Jérôme Noetinger among others. And he’s part of the Quintet Avant.