
Cette deuxiĂšme sĂ©rie de sessions en ligne â de chambreâ (voir No Lockdown Transonic Session – Winter 2020-21) commandĂ©es par Transcultures et son label Transonic Ă des crĂ©ateurs sonores dâesthĂ©tiques variĂ©s mais toutes aventureuses (Ă©lectronique, sound art, poĂ©sie sonore, post rock, ambient, field recordings, musiques improvisĂ©esâŠ), met Ă lâhonneur des singularitĂ©s artistiques basĂ©es en Belgique (Gauthier Keyaerts, Maja Jantar, Paradise NowâŠ), en France (Mathias Delplanque qui dĂ©marre ses Transonic Spring Sessions, Silvain VanotâŠ) et Ă©galement des rĂ©fĂ©rences internationales (dont une session solo de Martyn Bates, chanteur, co-fondateur du duo britannique Eyeless in Gaza au dĂ©but des annĂ©es 80)…
Cette volontĂ© de soutenir tant des Ă©mergences, mĂ©tĂ©orites sonores que des pionniers des ces sons autres est au cĆur de la dĂ©marche de lâalter label Transonic produit par Transcultures, depuis sa crĂ©ation en 2012. Elle rejoint ici lâinitiative NoLA – No Lockdown Art (programme Creaconnections) lancĂ© par Transcultures et les PĂ©piniĂšres europĂ©ennes de CrĂ©ation lors du premier confinement anti Covid-19 en mars 2020 et la volontĂ© des partenaires dâutiliser le rĂ©seau pour soutenir et faire dĂ©couvrir ces crĂ©ations audio diffĂ©renciĂ©es au plus grand nombre de curieux.
Mathias Delplanque - Live in Nantes/Malakoff (04Mar2021)
When Philippe Franck asked me to record live at home a new piece for the No Lockdown Art Tranonic live session initiative, I opened the windows of my studio, located in the neighbourhood of Malakoff, in Nantes, France, and I improvised with random elements stuck in my computer.
I played, very loud, for my neighbourhood (and had no complains so farâŠ). I also played with all the sonic elements that were coming from the outside (these elements that, as for most of us, became so important during the last months).
This track is dedicated to my father Alain Delplanque (06-09-1944 / 24-03-2021)
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Mathias Delplanque (FR) is a composer, a performer, an improviser, an author of sound installations, a composer for theatre and dance and the founding member of several musical ensembles.
His work as a composer started in 1998 as he graduated from the Fine Arts School of Cergy- Pontoise and decided to put an end to his sculpture activity to turn towards sound creation. He since released more than forty records on various international labels. He collaborated with musicians from various points of the musical spectrum, and worked with numerous visual artists, writers, video artists, photographers, film directors and dancers⊠His installation works are frequently shown in galleries and art centres, and he regularly performs on stage, solo or accompanied by other musicians.
Mathias’s sound work takes on several main lines and develops through different identities. The works done under his own name (developed on records, performances or sound installations, and being either based on field recordings or containing instrumental parts) all directly deal with the question of the relation between space and music: music as architecture, spaces made out of sound etcâŠ
Initially a pure sequenced studio production, Mathiasâs music transformed with the years into a more improvised and flexible creation. Showing a real interest in live electronic music, he developed a very personal approach of electronic improvisation, based on the use of multiple controllers and instruments that engage the body in the production of electronic performances.
His live creations generally combine electronic sounds and acoustic instruments treated, sampled and mixed in real time.
Gauthier Keyaerts - Totem #1 - live in Brussels (10May2021)
Totem #1 is the first draft of a âmonumentalâ work that puts together music / soundscapes and poems from all around the world, read by the poets (in order of appearance: Miguel Angel Real, Kate Rex, Jean-Marc Desgent, Roger West, ElĂ Urbina Montenegro, Charles Pennequin, Manuel Neto Dos Santos, FrĂ©dĂ©rique Soumagne, Bertrand Laverdure) who wrote them in their original language. Some poets also pay a tribute to Antonin Artaud.
Totem is⊠gather the world into the same space, be connected to what unites us at any given moment – microscopic yet infinite, through poetry and music.
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Born in Brussels in February 1969, Gauthier Keyaerts has been developing his own physical and organic approach to music / image / poetry for years. His work is based on the principle of instinct applied to audio-video sculpturing and spatialisation, writing, scenography, installations…
His work has been performed and exhibited in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Taiwan, QuebecâŠ
He has released several albums on Belgian indie labels (Sub Rosa/Quatermass as Very Mashâta and with Bump & Grind, Transonic as The Aktivist)
Credits
Miguel Angel Real (Spain): Un homenaje en un minuto
Kate Rex (England): extract from L’Ombilic des limbes (Antonin Artaud)
Jean-Marc Desgent (Quebec): Poem for the installation « L’oeil Sampler #2 »
Roger West (Scotland): Postcard from Bertrand Laverdure (work in progress)
ElĂ Urbina Montenegro (Peru): Guardo Hospedada en mi memoria
Charles Pennequin (France): Insulte Ă l’inconditionnĂ© (Antonin Artaud)
Manuel Neto Dos Santos (Portugal): Cada verso Ă© um pĂĄssaro
FrĂ©dĂ©rique Soumagne (France): Poem for Gauthier Keyaertsâ installation « L’oeil Sampler #2 »
Bertrand Laverdure (Quebec): Lâarbre est politique (« L’oeil Sampler #2 »)
Live session (impro), mastering and editing : Gauthier Keyaerts
Martyn Bate - Live at the House Of Hive-Arc (03March2021)
This concert session was recorded in March 2021 at The House Of Hive-Arc, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England – above land riddled with underground rivers, and alongside the ancient roman road filled with ghost soldiers where Boudicca routs them still. The recordings form an intimate & warm picture of a cross-section of some of the varied aspects of my music. The invitation from Philippe Franck/Transcultures to participate in the No Lockdown Art Transonic Sessions affords me an opportunity to do something different.
« For me, this time meant that I could experiment with invented guitar tunings and thus stretch out and explore a little (« Down In Some Lonesome Valley There Lives Pretty Saro The Deathless »). It also meant that I could unearth/let fly a few of the long-loved songs that Iâve never actually sang publicly during my long and varied career… delighting in re-modeling some of my songs and placing them in beautifully simple settings – hence the acappella voice versions of the phantasm-pagan song Skull … and then, the inner stillness of the beautiful and crystalline Licorice McKechnie song entitled « I Know You ». I’ve relished having the opportunity to sing the music and words of Sydney Carter the visionary dreamer of the Christ in « In Drink Ah Drink ». A song and a half, as we say, is the exquisite « Brigg Fair », and well – it’s simply that for me, this song was a long, long, long time in coming. And, a song sweet to sing again after so very long⊠something from my song-settings of James Joyce’ Chamber Music (« Because Your Voice Was At My Side »). These songs are a soundtrack of sorts, its true – a snapshot soundtrack of mine, for now perhaps⊠and my last thought here is that song is indeed a mythic language, where everything has a narrative, a story of its own – and, that story isnât always the story that we think it is – and that it isn’t necessarily the story that often weâd like it to be. »
Martyn Bates
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Martyn Bates is an English singer, musician and songwriter. After releasing tapes of experimental, industrial music as Migraine Inducers he formed Eyeless In Gaza with Peter Becker in January 1980. The duo became known for their unconventional instrumentation and arrangements, and for Batesâs passionate vocals. From 1992 onwards, Bates has run a parallel career recording and performing with a re-vitalised Eyeless In Gaza â with Eyeless deftly blending song with collaged soundscaping – while Bates otherwise continues to develop his own intense and possibly autobiographical solo work.
The myriad collaborations of Martyn Bates include a series of albums with Scorn/Napalm Deathâs Mick Harris, several releases with Alan Trench (as Twelve Thousand Days), Max Eastley, Anne Clark, Simon Fisher Turner, contributing vocals to Derek Jarman’s The Garden, and The Last Of England), also working with This Mortal Coil, and Lol Coxhill to name but a fewâŠ
Read (in french) : Martyn Bates : Vox Luminis â Interview par Philippe Franck â JazzMania 2021
> jazzmania.be/martyn-bates-vox-luminis
Maja Jantar - Shoreline - Live in Gent (22May2021)
Shoreline – is a line in motion – a line between past and memory – a line in a physical space – through reverberation – an echo – shoreline is a reflexion on emanation – on where we spill – fade – we, and sound, time, water, history – an attempt to contain the evadable – an ebb and flow – shoreline resonates – dissonates – through impact – a dance – a walk – a play with repetition – with waves – and how memory is never the same twice.
Maja Jantar > voice, ceramics, composition
Maja Jantar (NL/PL) is a multidisciplinary, multilingual and polysonic artist, ceramicist and director, whose work spans the fields of performance, music, poetry, ceramic and visual arts. âDistant Tartarâ roots echo in her soundings â weaving the operatic, poetic, abstract influences together to vocal sound works that landscape into performance. In pieces like âPetrichor a Lit[h]any for rainâ and âM[other]landâ, she explores collaborations with non-human entities, rain, wood, plants, in her multi-disciplinary installation âShorelineâ, Lunalia Festival Mechelen, ceramics and a rolling table created a reverberating sound piece. In performance she invites to enter the field of the imaginary, the inner stream, the shamanistic, enchanting, prophetic.
Her visual and sound work has been shown in several exhibits, recently at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in La voix libérée a sound poetry exhibition.
For 2021 an LP release of new vocal work is planned on Erratum, in the series âVoxxxâ.
CT JEROME - Saint Maur Trave(l)ling - Live in Nantes/Malakoff (04March2021)
« Le studio oĂč je compose et travaille se situe rue Saint Maure (11Ăšme arrondissement) dans lâune des plus longues rues de Paris oĂč se concentre le plus grand nombre de bars et restaurants au M2. La pandĂ©mie a touchĂ© de plein fouet lâĂ©conomie du quartier et a vu le couvre-feu vider et baisser le rideau de tous les dĂ©bits de boissons.
Jâai dĂ©cidĂ© de profiter de cette invitation, de sortir enregistrer la rĂ©ouverture rĂ©alisĂ©e par palier. La vie reprenant son cours dans un mĂ©lange dâinsouciance et de convivialitĂ© entre deux confinements. Introduit par des mots en espagnol dâun chercheur traduisant les dĂ©couvertes de Philippe Descola sur les incantations chantĂ©es par les Achuars (un des derniers groupes dâIndiens jivaros dâAmazonie). Ces Ă©vocations sâappellent des « anent », qui vient de « enentai », le cĆur : ce sont des discours du cĆur, des discours de lâĂąme, chantĂ©e mentalement, ou murmurĂ©e, mais dont les paroles sont difficiles Ă distinguer. Ce sont des injonctions adressĂ©es Ă des parents ou Ă un conjoint Ă©loignĂ©. On pourrait imaginer le brouhaha ambiant comme des invocations Ă tous nos proches qui ont subi et de prĂȘt et de loin cette pandĂ©mie ».
J. Poret
S’inscrivant essentiellement dans une pratique plastique et sonore Ă la croisĂ©e de lâĂ©lectroacoustique et de la culture musicale dite des marges, JĂ©rĂŽme Poret (Fr – aka JĂ©rĂŽme Poret), apprĂ©hende lâarchitecture et lâexposition comme des structures amplificatrices et Ă©mettrices affectant leur environnement social et artistique. Il crĂ©e et dirige le micro-label phonographique Labelle69.
Rue Saint Maur dans le 11Ăšme arrondissement de Paris
Mixage finalisé au studio Dkmastering Paris 11 le 3 /07 2021
Crédits photo Bistrot-quai : Adagp JérÎme Poret
Silvain Vanot - Sem Descanso Suite - Live in Paris (31Aug2021)
« Le documentaire Sem Descanso (Aucun rĂ©pit), rĂ©alisĂ© par Bernard Attal, conte la quĂȘte de vĂ©ritĂ© entreprise par un pĂšre Ă Salvador, au BrĂ©sil. Son fils Geovane a Ă©tĂ© enlevĂ©, mutilĂ©, et exĂ©cutĂ© par la police en 2014. Ce film fort et indispensable entamait son pĂ©riple en Europe dans diffĂ©rents festivals quand a dĂ©butĂ© le premier confinement. Je devais quelques semaines plus tard partir au BrĂ©sil enregistrer des sons pour la prĂ©-production dâun nouveau film du mĂȘme rĂ©alisateur⊠Double empĂȘchement donc ! Câest ce qui mâest revenu en tĂȘte lorsque Philippe Franck mâa proposĂ© de travailler Ă une session en flux live liĂ©e au confinement. Jâai piochĂ© dans les sessions dâenregistrement de la BO de Sem Descanso â prises retenues et chutes – et donnĂ© une nouvelle lecture de cette musique, comme une dĂ©rive intĂ©rieure, en Ă©cho au long pĂ©riple de ce pĂšre courage ; comme un lien maintenu aussi avec ce pays que jâaime tant et qui semble plus inaccessible que jamais. »
Silvain Vanot
No Lockdown Art
Dans le cadre de son nouveau programme parapluie Creaconnections (soutenant la crĂ©ation contemporaine exploratoire hybride en rĂ©seau et sur le rĂ©seau), Transcultures, en partenariat avec les PĂ©piniĂšres europĂ©ennes de CrĂ©ation, a lancĂ© lâaction No Lockdown Art â #NoLA2020 afin de soutenir le rĂ©-activitisme dâartistes belges et internationaux qui ont initiĂ©, en pĂ©riode de confinement, dâintĂ©ressants projets audio, vidĂ©o, multimĂ©dia⊠en ligne et diffusent librement leurs singularitĂ©s et regards poĂ©tiques aux curieux connectĂ©s.
Dans cette pĂ©riode tristement unique (mais susceptible dâannoncer dâautres catastrophes), de nombreux artistes de toute origine ont refusĂ© la quarantaine de lâexpression partagĂ©e. Ils ont exprimĂ© Ă la fois un besoin de se relier Ă un autre public (connectĂ©) et de sortir tant de la peur et de la paralysie que du âtout Ă lâĂ©goâ.
DĂ©sirant sâassocier Ă cette dynamique libertaire et donner soutien et visibilitĂ© Ă des oeuvres diffĂ©renciĂ©es en ligne, Transcultures a ainsi proposĂ© un soutien Ă la production Ă plusieurs artistes pour des projets Ă court, moyen, ou long termes.
Dans cette volontĂ© pro-active et dĂ©-confite, un appel Ă projet No Lockdown Art (#NoLA2020) a Ă©tĂ© lancĂ© Ă la mi-avril 2020; il s’agissait et il s’agit encore ces derniers mois de soutenir activement de nombreuses initiatives dâartistes et concepteurs de projets culturels Ă la crĂ©ativitĂ© intacte, si pas stimulĂ©e par les turbulences de notre monde virale.
Informations
- Printemps 2021
- No Lockdown Transonic Session – Spring 2021
- Projet initié et coordonné par Philippe Franck
- philippefranck.eu
Production
- Production : Transcultures, PépiniÚres européennes de Création, Transonic Label
- Dans le cadre de NoLA – No Lockdown Art, programme Creaconnections
- transcultures.be – pepinieres.eu – transonic.be