condition (disc/cover): M / M  Chantal, released on OHM éditions, strips everything back to essentials: one voice, one name, one woman. This is Luc Ferrari at his most exposed, building an entire work around the recorded presence of a single individual. The piece operates somewhere between portrait and love poem, documentary and fantasy. You're never quite sure where observation ends and desire begins, and that uncertainty is precisely the point.

The intimacy here recalls Alvin Lucier's investigations into the voice, but where Lucier pursued acoustic phenomena with scientific detachment, Ferrari pursues the person behind the phenomenon. Chantal breathes, laughs, speaks, and Ferrari arranges these fragments into something that feels simultaneously like eavesdropping and revelation.