/Musique concrète, Field recording, Experimentalism,
Non-music/
Comment:
it was many years ago when I ardently
argued about outside recorded sounds with my friend. The point was about
valuableness of those sounds while you have chance to go out to the nature
otherwise. More concretely, how valuable could be the simulacrum in fact?
However, my then hostile stance has softened over the years. Furthermore, the
field recording compositions are frequently processed and/or blended with
artificial sounds and/or conceptually confined to have disparate goal other
than just providing an anaemic template from the nature. The Spanish artist of
French heritage Philippe Faujas` 19-minute composition involves windy “beats”,
crackles, clicks, hits, speech snippets, motorcycle accelerations and bypasses,
street noises, the paces of human beings, train induced metronomic “cadences”
and so forth. Tongue in cheek, at times the soundscape can be considered the
natural kind of glitched-out music because of being tightly wrapped up by a
high consistency of hisses and crackles. In a nutshell, it is an interesting
alternation to your common listening habits.