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Yann LEGUAY
“Drift-02”
Drift is a record series that uses non conventional technics of vinyl cutting. For its second issue, Drift-02, a strict protocol was set, cutting 12 grooves of silence on each side, superimposed on top of each other and progressively cut on the surface of the record.
Playing the record produces a randomized path into the different silent grooves. The listener concretely enters the vinyl materiality, experiences the shapes of the empty grooves, the disturbances and the crossings.
Hearing a sound from passing through the stereo panning indicates the pickup is physically drifting on the surface. The same applies to the cracks and drifts, that manifest that the needle has leaped, as the pickup continually drifts grooves throughout its progression. And even if there is no sound cut on the record, singular sounds arise, producing a complex soundscape.
The settings of the turntable, the quality and wear of its needle, its different parameters (consweight, anti-skating…) affect the reading path, unveil the non deterministic nature of the record : the duration is not stable, the reading becomes chaotic, punctuated with accidents, looping or backward phenomena may occur.
DRIFT-02 is the second opus released on the collection DRIFT, after the famous DRIFT-01, released in 2012, with 4 grooves per side, reuniting Martin Tétreault, eRikm, DJ Sniff and Arnaud Rivière.
Cut by Yann Leguay at DK Mastering
Texts by Samon Takahashi « Drift-02 introduction » & « Grooving in Silence ».
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances.
His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour appropriates unusual machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using opened hard-drives as turntables. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing silkscreen records or a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel.
His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback.
Comes with an English text from Samon Takahashi. Limited to 222 copies.
Playing the record produces a randomized path into the different silent grooves. The listener concretely enters the vinyl materiality, experiences the shapes of the empty grooves, the disturbances and the crossings.
Hearing a sound from passing through the stereo panning indicates the pickup is physically drifting on the surface. The same applies to the cracks and drifts, that manifest that the needle has leaped, as the pickup continually drifts grooves throughout its progression. And even if there is no sound cut on the record, singular sounds arise, producing a complex soundscape.
The settings of the turntable, the quality and wear of its needle, its different parameters (consweight, anti-skating…) affect the reading path, unveil the non deterministic nature of the record : the duration is not stable, the reading becomes chaotic, punctuated with accidents, looping or backward phenomena may occur.
DRIFT-02 is the second opus released on the collection DRIFT, after the famous DRIFT-01, released in 2012, with 4 grooves per side, reuniting Martin Tétreault, eRikm, DJ Sniff and Arnaud Rivière.
Cut by Yann Leguay at DK Mastering
Texts by Samon Takahashi « Drift-02 introduction » & « Grooving in Silence ».
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances.
His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour appropriates unusual machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using opened hard-drives as turntables. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing silkscreen records or a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel.
His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback.
Comes with an English text from Samon Takahashi. Limited to 222 copies.
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Yann LEGUAY
“Headcrash”
Headcrash is the final result of a series of live performances called “Quad Core”, brought to audiences all around Europe and further, and finally recorded at Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels) in the summer of 2016. This project interacts with computer data storage devices as a raw material to produce unpredictable instruments. Four hard-drives are used as turntables, hacked in many different ways and picked up with several magnetic sensors. Technically, the computer is controlling the hard-drives via open source software and Arduino, speed and movements of the arms are triggered by electricity, and the sound is picked up directly from the sources, without any audio treatment but EQ. This produces a massive sound crossing the entire range from analog to digital and reverse, creating physical feedbacks, electrical rhythms and deviant behavior making it appear as radical minimal noise techno.
Yann Leguay is a Brussels-based French Artist. His approach to sound design for installation, performance and film centers on the materiality of sound. Both as visual artist, sound maker and reverse, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and festival in Europe and beyond. He also composes sound tracks for artist’s films and participates in choreographic projects (with Ula Sickle, Studio Kabako…).
Yann Leguay s work focuses on everything around sound. Materiality, diversion and tautology are the main ingredients of his work. By modifying the reality of the material (as sounds or real objects) he affects the sensibility of the viewer, changing the perception and relation with materiality. His interest on media and the players that work with it is a clear position on what we are making as utopian, wanting to produce perpetual and solid memory. By deconstructing the elements of this human need, he gives an overview and a distance on the global relation we have with objects and memory.
Recorded at Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels) by Yann Leguay & Etienne Foyer. Mastered by Fred Alstadt – Angström. 300 clear vinyl – custom typeprinted cover. Design by Dimitri Runkkari & Yann Leguay. Sleeve printed on polystyrene tracing paper. Inserts are building plans found in a cellar at HS63 / Zennestraat (Brussels).
Yann Leguay is a Brussels-based French Artist. His approach to sound design for installation, performance and film centers on the materiality of sound. Both as visual artist, sound maker and reverse, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and festival in Europe and beyond. He also composes sound tracks for artist’s films and participates in choreographic projects (with Ula Sickle, Studio Kabako…).
Yann Leguay s work focuses on everything around sound. Materiality, diversion and tautology are the main ingredients of his work. By modifying the reality of the material (as sounds or real objects) he affects the sensibility of the viewer, changing the perception and relation with materiality. His interest on media and the players that work with it is a clear position on what we are making as utopian, wanting to produce perpetual and solid memory. By deconstructing the elements of this human need, he gives an overview and a distance on the global relation we have with objects and memory.
Recorded at Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels) by Yann Leguay & Etienne Foyer. Mastered by Fred Alstadt – Angström. 300 clear vinyl – custom typeprinted cover. Design by Dimitri Runkkari & Yann Leguay. Sleeve printed on polystyrene tracing paper. Inserts are building plans found in a cellar at HS63 / Zennestraat (Brussels).
9,00€