MCD SPECIALE EDITION 02: QWARTZ 5 [FR]

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vibrö 5 - The Plastic People Issue [la revue sonore]  

For this 5th compilation, PLASTIC PEOPLE, we have chosen to illustrate how visual/conceptual artists use sound as a component of a mixed media work or a texture directly worked on with conceptual tools. Depending on the position of the listener, this snapshot can be interpreted as a cliché.
Artists can occasionally show contempt towards the reactionary concerns of ‘experimental’ or electroacoustic music. In the meantime, listening with a composer’s ear will reveal the banality or ‘déjà entendu’ nature of sound used by a fine artist. Hedonistic pleasure of hearing or Kantian reward of understanding?
Perhaps the key lies in considering the background and the intent of each
current in the light of its own history, the ruptures proposed by its avant-gardes, the disjunctions and paradigms of art and music faced with an accelerated hybridisation. 

 01 Dominique Petitgand "Proportions" (excerpts) 7'00"
02 François Martig & Philippe Petitgenêt NOISE-ette 6'47"
03 James Beckett Trophies 5'26"
04 Frank Rothkamm Cosmological_Constant 7'22"
05 Matmos X-ed Out no drums 6'21"
06 Jodi Rose & Erik Minkkinen Journal de bord d¹un petit caillou 6'43"
07 Angus Carlyle Shitsuren Shimashita 4'53"
08 Carl Michael von Hausswolff Farang Smiley 8'21"
09 Jacob Kirkegaard Fool's Fire 7'52"
10 Dominique Blais Sans titre (Lustre) 8'01"
11 Andrea Williams SILO 5'13"
12 Radio-Continental Drift Radio Armed Response 5'42"

MCD SPECIALE EDITION: QWARTZ 4  [FR]

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