Browse by Artist: BISSONNETTE, CHRISTOPHER

Artist:	BISSONNETTE, CHRISTOPHER
Title:	Periphery
Label:	KRANKY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	KRANK 087CD

"Periphery is a collection of piano and orchestral based material, recorded and produced over the past year. Christopher Bissonnette developed a system of exclusion and reconstruction, using seconds of samples to produce extended textural edits, often removing any traces of the original source, yet retaining the fundamental nature of each modeled phase. Audio patches are constructed with sets of randomized variables. Most tracks are mixed and recorded live, resulting in organic, sinuous compositions. Interstitial moments, trails of reverb and tonal passages are all manipulated to become the groundwork for compositions. These extended phases create a fragile balance of tension and atmospheric placidity. The results are introspective compositions; layered with delicate minutae, extended and immersive."

Artist:	BISSONNETTE, CHRISTOPHER
Title:	In Between Words
Label:	KRANKY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	KRANK 118CD

"In Between Words is a collection of works that continue Christopher Bissonnette's explorations into orchestral and spatial acoustics. Cultivating an increasing interest in field recording and found sounds, Bissonnette has woven spatial ambience into these new compositions, while still concentrating on moments of near empty space between 'instruments.' Inspired by the continuous din, the constant low-level hum of urban background noise, interspersed with all manner of mechanically-created sounds, Bissonnette finds in this a near-melodic soundtrack to his daily life. On the final track 'Jour Et Nuit,' this seems most apparent, as one can almost hear sparse traffic on a highway in the sweeping long tones. Using orchestral sound sources as well as recording his own sounds to manipulate and process, Bissonnette has crafted a symphony of six movements, with melodies as ghostly apparitions that fade in and out of view. Recorded as spontaneous mixes, these compositions maintain a sense of organic fluidity while creating passages of escalating tension."

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