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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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Patricia BOSSHARD
“Sillons – Reflets”
Two Patricia Bosshard's compositions performed by ONCEIM and string ensemble CoÔ
Recorded on June 2018 at Saint-Merry church (Paris)
To interpret her two compositions, Sillons and Reflets, Patricia Bosshard could not have hoped for better than the ONCEIM and the CoÔ ensemble, two groups of which she is also a member as a violinist.
These two ensembles bring together instrumentalists of a very high level, from very diverse musical backgrounds: improvised music, jazz, free jazz, classical and contemporary music, experimental music. The collaboration between the musicians and the composer is organized around playing modes that favor minimalist and innovative forms. The scores allow the musicians to experiment with the proposed material, and to appropriate the form, while highlighting the sound potential of the collective.
"I composed Sillon, a repetitive, bewitching piece, which, in its form, evolves from the individual to the large orchestra, passing by groups and sub-groups gathered by affinities of material, timbre, sound. The composition Reflets is based on harmonics. I redistributed these harmonics within the ensemble, played at different octaves, as notes, as harmonics or as ponticello (bow near the bridge), thus generating new harmonics." Patricia Bosshard
Born in Switzerland, Patricia Bosshard is a violinist and composer who studied classical music in Montreal, composition and electroacoustics in Geneva, and jazz in Lausanne. She has developed her own language of experimental and improvised music, which she uses in numerous collaborations with musicians, directors and choreographers.
Founded in 2011 at the instigation of pianist Frédéric Blondy, ONCEIM is an orchestra of 34 musicians. ONCEIM is dedicated to contemporary creation. Well known for his interpretations of the most recent works of Éliane Radigue, ONCEIM also played compositions by Stephen O'Malley, Martin Tétreault, Carsten Nicolai, John Tilbury, Peter Ablinger, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Frédéric Blondy, Sébastien Beliah, Bertrand Denzler, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Jérome Noetinger, Arnaud Rivière. ONCEIM has been in residency since 2011 at the Saint Merry Church (Paris). ONCEIM has played in Europe at the Venice Biennale, at several festivals (Krakow, Utrecht, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Geneva), as well as at festivals in France such as Météo, Densités, Extension, Macval, and the Fondation Cartier.
Created by Félicie Bazelaire, CoÔ is a string ensemble bringing together string players of ONCEIM. CoÔ aims to build new directions in instrumental research, and create a new repertoire based on specific techniques for bowed strings. In 2019, Potlatch has already released a recording of CoÔ: Arc (compositions by Bertrand Denzler).
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Bertrand DENZLER
“Arc”
Arc is a Bertrand Denzler's composition performed by string ensemble CoÔ.
Founded by Félicie Bazelaire, CoÔ is a string ensemble bringing together string players of ONCEIM (Orchestre des Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales, created and directed by Frédéric Blondy). CoÔ aims to build new directions in instrument research, and create a new repertoire for bowed strings. Félicie Bazelaire works with musicians who are composers and improvisers such as saxophonist Bertrand Denzler with this composition Arc.
The fruitful collaboration between musicians and composer helps to organize new ways of playing, and produce minimalist and innovative forms. Score gives priority to specific techniques applied to bowed strings, allowing musicians to experiment rich material, and focus on collective sound potentials.
CoÔ: Patricia Bosshard violin, Cyprien Busolini alto, Elodie Gaudet alto, Anaïs Moreau cello, Félicie Bazelaire double bass, Benjamin Duboc double bass, Fred Marty double bass.
Recorded on may 2018.
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Marc BARON
“Un salon au fond d’un lac”
After the highly-acclaimed Hidden Tapes released on Potlatch in 2014, Marc Baron puts another solo recording forward. Un salon au fond d’un lac is the new opus by this composer engaged in reel-to-reel tapes experimentation and using cut-up, noise, found sound, pre-recorded and degraded tapes. As always, Marc Baron uses analog tape techniques only. Composed on 2014.
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Marc BARON
“Hidden tapes”
Hidden Tapes is composed from old cassette tapes, with addition of some other sources from movies soundtracks and classical or liturgical music extracts which were retrieved in closets. These sound documents were accelerated or slowed down, layered and transformed with analog devices. No digital effect, no plugin. Computer was only used for editing and mixing. Composed on 2013.
About Marc Baron : Between 2000 and 2010, Marc Baron was an improviser on saxophone. He made concerts and performances in solo or ensembles (mainly duo Narthex, quartet Propagations). Concerts in France, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia. Collaborations with Loïc Blairon, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jean- Sébastien Mariage, Bertrand Denzler, Pascal Le Gall and Stéphane Rives. Since 2010 he works as a composer for speakers: sound diffusion, installations, live performances. Performances in festivals: 104, Umlaut and Parisonic (Paris), Villa Savoye (Poissy), Mulhouse. "Now, now" (Sydney, Australia), Parisonic (Melbourne, Australia).
About Marc Baron : Between 2000 and 2010, Marc Baron was an improviser on saxophone. He made concerts and performances in solo or ensembles (mainly duo Narthex, quartet Propagations). Concerts in France, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia. Collaborations with Loïc Blairon, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jean- Sébastien Mariage, Bertrand Denzler, Pascal Le Gall and Stéphane Rives. Since 2010 he works as a composer for speakers: sound diffusion, installations, live performances. Performances in festivals: 104, Umlaut and Parisonic (Paris), Villa Savoye (Poissy), Mulhouse. "Now, now" (Sydney, Australia), Parisonic (Melbourne, Australia).
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