01. A reassuring Elsewhere pt. 1 (09:38) Inside Piano - Buchla 200 / EMS Synthi A analog synthesizers 02. Interlude (01:41) Inside Piano - Buchla 200 analog synthesizer 03. A reassuring Elsewhere pt. 2 (10:44) Inside Piano - Buchla 200 / EMS Synthi A analog synthesizers - Theremin 04. A reassuring Elsewhere pt. 3 (09:28) Inside Piano - Buchla 200 analog synthesizer 05. Interlude (02:28) Prepared Piano Soundboard - Buchla 200 analog synthesizer 06. A reassuring Elsewhere pt. 4 (08:22) Grand Piano - Buchla 200 analog synthesizer
« A reassuring Elsewhere » was arranged in 3 steps: Firstly I opened the grand piano at CNRR national Conservatory and aimed at playing with resonances, preparing it following the idea to favour an acoustic side, played spontaneously, on impulse, in a physical way. Without restraint or sometimes "on the tip of my hands", preparing it by sliding various stripes, clothespins or other objects on & between the strings + the use of cotton or kleenex on the resonant structure or on some sticks. Rubbing paper, wood and used plastic. Knocking with rubber, metal, coton fabric and other tools to develop unexpected percussive sounds. Then I need to find a perspective for these accousticisms, how to replace these sounds on an imaginary space canvas, how to make them live in a composition, spreading like a virus shaping up a multi facetious « analoRganism ». I chose to use Analog Synthesizers and patching accordingly becomes part of my compositional process.
Thirdly I want to sculpt movements of sound masses, muted, caressing or with a simple stroke of a hand turn bersek all frequencies / pitches in an electro-acoustic result… Acoustic meeting modular synthesis not knowing where one stops and the other begins in an elastic space-time where their harmonies and varied colors would join-overlap carrying the listener as if I had inflated a balloon and let it fly away suddenly… Transporting everything so that it may become one statement… Tension-relaxation, destabilizing and reassuring at the same time, kind of immersed in a dream where nothing would be where it is expected. A kind of gesture towards vertigo but also sometimes a hand-stretched towards a reassuring elsewhere …
