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Pali MEURSAULT
“{ Press }”
Universinternational & Artkillart — Ui024 + AKA16
Press completes a “mechanist” trilogy, started by Pali Meursault with Offset in 2013 and Mécanes in 2016. Following the investigation of gestures and machines cycles in printing and letterpress workshops, this new work is a mise en abyme of the record as an object, created from field recordings of a vinyl record pressing plant: Rand Muzik in Leipzig.
Composed in the studios of GRM, Press is a piece of industrial musique concrète. The microphonic explorations of factory noises, as “byproducts” of the fabrication process, reveal the pulsations, rhythms, frequencies and sequences of an electroacoustic matter that seem to be already pointing to industrial and electronic music. Noise is apprehended as a social and cultural phenomenon, which attests of both a production process and an auditory culture.
The piece fills the first side of the record with three “movements” that correspond to the three main stages of the record fabrication: electrotyping, pressing, and packaging.
The second side is a deconstruction of the first one, presenting 33 locked groves. The medium conditions the shape of sound by imposing the never-ending repetition of the 1.8 seconds in take to complete a rotation.
Sound matter recorded in the R.A.N.D. muzik pressing plant in Leipzig. Music composed in the studios of GRM in Paris. Lacquer cut at DK Mastering by Hervé de Kéroullas.
Thanks to François Bonnet, Jan Freund, and Víctor Mazón Gardoqui.
Limited edition of 300 copies.
22,50€
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Cathy HEYDEN
“Badlands”
Imagined while crossing the great american plains, “Badlands” is the first solo album by saxophonist Cathy Heyden. Each side of the record reveals a different facet of the (the devil's) instrument and of the (accomplished) instrumentist. 'Coyotes' pulls out of studio recording the tour de force of a radical evocation of the wild and nocturnal immensity of the desert ; while 'Soda Lake' meticulously explores unexpected patterns and matters.
While expanding the possibilities of the solo instrument (one might think of Michel Doneda, Stéphane Rives, Nmperign...), the sonic exploration and soundscape-like approach of “Badlands” finds a natural way to the catalog of Universinternational.
Original price was: 15,50€.8,00€Current price is: 8,00€.
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Pali MEURSAULT
“Mécanes”
Commissioned by GRM, < Mécanes > brings further the “machinic” research pali meursault had started with Offset. This time, sound matter was recorded in a letter-pressing workshop. With the help of the artisans, and on the pretext of printing the text insert of the record, it as possible to bring the microphones even closer to the mechanics, to the machines as a musical instrument.
Side A focuses on the delicate handcrafting, while on side B it's the energy of the presses that is setting the pace.
Sounds were collected with the welcome and support of atelier m.u.r.r., the piece was first created in january of 2016 at GR’'s “Festival Multiphonies”.
12,00€