Label: La République des Granges, INSUB.records
Format: LP
Genre: Experimental
Preorder: Releases February 2025
"Incendies" is a piece that sings the jolts of a world on battery. Just as we watch a fire with fascination, its beauty and its destructive force at the same time, one can listen to analog signals enriched with saturations and give birth to the space created inside a stereophony. Or meditate on the carbon footprint of the same action. And for your information: the number of megafires will increase by 30% by 2050 (according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) which also denounces noise pollution in cities as a growing danger to public health).
"Incendies" was first commisonned by Archipel Festival in Geneva in 2024 for its acousmonium concerts. The piece is based on analog signals, recorded over and over through various circuits (filters mostly) in order to create subtles stereo differences, mouvements and depthes. The music breath to its own puslation, always slightly off-the-grid, saturations and hisses act on the the expressive and dramatic level. The LP version is mostely based on the Archipel concert, and contain a discreet layer of the space and accousmonium acoustic, as in d'incise's “electronic” work, the loudspaker is always considered as the ultimate instument carrying the music. The live version can be deployed from two to any numbers of speakers, expanding the stero field with a focus on asymetries.
D'incise, sound explorer, used to pretend to have no perticular instrument, using whatever can be considered as such, softwares, recordings, objects, percussions, harmonium, etc. However he has lately re-focused on analog electronic sources, carefully sampling and re-assembling them as solo concert proposal for loudspeakers. He's interested in radicalism, reductionnism, repetitions and conceptual approaches, building specific set-up for each new occasion & context, in solo, groups or thought for others. He tends to extract the most tiny details of the elements, appreciates slowness and obsessive explorations of simple processes.