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GD 023CD
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"This is the first release in GD Stereo's Improvisational Architecture series. Cycloïdes is a work for disklavier by artist Jocelyn Robert. Trained as an architect, Jocelyn left the profession in 1989 to concentrate on situationist strategies in art: urban performances, 'derive' inspired projects, recordings from buildings, and soundtracks for cities. Jocelyn writes: 'sound as a set of physical, political, geographical forces, which, when working in a network, create a situation we call music. The concept of mistakes in music has always been one that intrigued me. My first player piano project, Le piano flou, was made twenty years ago from that starting point. The pieces I wrote then were composed from an analysis of what could be called mistakes in my 'below average' piano playing. In this new work, Cycloïdes, the software doesn't analyze mistakes or odd notes, it simply keeps them in. No forgetting, no forgiving. This project is a series of live improvisations, in which software keeps the notes I played and forces me to take them as the basis for the next ones, whether I liked them or not, whether they were right or wrong. The music continuously comes back unto itself, reaffirming its instant past, in an almost cyclic manner, in a cycloïdic one.' A compact disc release in a 5" X 7" sleeve."
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AVTR 014
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"Canned Gods" began with this observation: sound effects librairies on compact discs, the ones used in the movie industry or for radio plays, are in fact cultural dictionaries. Each sound library presents the most important sounds for the culture that chose them. An example : one of the american sound library offers a huge number of car sounds, while the BBC s has maybe a dozen of them, but has a number of field recordings from foreign colonies which do not appear on the american sound effects cds...even the form of presentation of these sounds (their length, order, etc...) is different. When considering these collections globally, one gets the feeling that they are some sort of an audio picture box or an audio picture book that presents a culture or a country. Thus, my idea has been to take one of these audio librairies and to use these sounds to trace a portrait of the culture from its own material. Canned Gods: a typical afternoon in the backyard in Phoenix, Arizona is the result of a first attempt with this approach applied to the United States."
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