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Pascal BATTUS – Michel DONEDA
“Miracle”
Pascal Battus: rotating surfaces
Michel Doneda: soprano and sopranino saxophones
Recorded on July 2020 by Lionel Marchetti
Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi
Pascal Battus and Michel Doneda performed as a duo for the first time at a private concert in Paris on December 2016. Afterwards, they played together a couple of times until this recording made on July 2020. The instrumental combination they bring into play is unusual. The duo is a dizzying dive into the heart of sound and texture, a passionate and continuous examination of surrounding sound events.
Sound artist and improviser, Pascal Battus develops a sound practice attentive to the sound gesture, to listening and to the situation that determines them, whatever the instrument used: guitar pick-up (guitar microphone without guitar), "surrounded" guitar (electric guitar on table + contact microphone + various objects + electronics), percussion (amplified objects or not) and rotating surfaces he plays in this recording. They are generally mechanisms of old Walkmans, made up of small plates put in movement by electric motors, on which come to react vibrators and resonators such as sheets of paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, wood, fragments of styrofoam, cups, rods and cymbals...
Michel Doneda has become a unique voice in the world of improvised music. For more than 30 years, he has been developing a highly original style of playing on the soprano saxophone, using specific techniques, and constantly elaborating musical proposals that are free from all conventions. For him, improvisation is not only a musical form to get off the beaten track, but also a total commitment.
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