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Yann Leguay

Quasi static crack Ppropagation

Label: Consumer Waste

Format: CD+ booklet

Genre: Electronic

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Brussels-based sound artist Yann Leguay is a true media saboteur. He appropriates industrial machinery for the playback of musical media (using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or to playback a CD at dizzying speed) with flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour. His back catalogue is equally deviant, releasing a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel. His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback. His Consumer Waste release presents a catalogue of audio media. Amplifying and recording CD players, tape recorders and DAT machines with a wide range of pickups, Leguay finds uncompromising electro-mechanical music in the playback functions of these devices. This stark machine-vision magnifies the vibrations of spinning discs and electromagnetic activity, the incidental music produced within the machines that usually reproduce it. The CD is accompanied by a 16-page booklet presenting a visual dissection of the same machines that were used in the recording of the album.

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Cat. number: cw11
Year: 2013
Notes:

Recorded and mixed at HS, Brussels. Supported by SARU at Oxford Brookes University.
Limited edition of 100 glass-mastered 5" CDs in oversized 7" sleeves with letterpressed insert and 16 page photocopied booklet.

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