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Elementa (1998), creates a soundscape so intoxicating and permutable, so enraptured with its own sounds and textures, with its overblown harmonic crackles and dripping sedimentary layers, that the listener wants to burrow into every sample and settle there. Mr. Risset’s homage to the elements has an almost pagan sensuality encompassing the infinite and mundane simultaneously. Elementa is formally, sonically, and emotionally convincing. The four movements sound well individually, but together they showcase a composer completely in command of his own voice.
Video created with Sonic Visualizer and vokoscreen on Kubuntu 14.04 (Linux).
Elementa (1998), creates a soundscape so intoxicating and permutable, so enraptured with its own sounds and textures, with its overblown harmonic crackles and dripping sedimentary layers, that the listener wants to burrow into every sample and settle there. Mr. Risset’s homage to the elements has an almost pagan sensuality encompassing the infinite and mundane simultaneously. Elementa is formally, sonically, and emotionally convincing. The four movements sound well individually, but together they showcase a composer completely in command of his own voice.
Video created with Sonic Visualizer and vokoscreen on Kubuntu 14.04 (Linux).
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Jean-Claude Eloy – Butsumyôe (1989) [excerpt]
Chants pour lautre moitié du ciel / Songs for the Other Half of the Sky.
Butsumyôe (La Cérémonie Du Repentir / The Ceremony Of Repentance)
…Au Temps Où JÉtais Nonne Chanteuse…
…A Contempler DUn Coeur Paisible…
…CEst La Tombée Du Jour…
For two female vocalists, using extended vocal technics, percussion instruments.
Texts from Hihara Saïkaku (in ancient Japanese).
First Voice, Percussion – Yumi NaraVoice
Second Voice, Percussion – Fatima Miranda
Warsaw Autumn Festival 1994
Recorded during a public concert, Polish Radio, Warsaw, September 17, 1994
video created with Audacity, Sonic Visualizer, vokoscreen and OpenShot on an openSUSE 13.2 Linux System.")
