“Préludes à la vie is a fascinating disc containing two collections of works from the French composer Michel Chion. Both pieces are made up of many small sections.”
Préludes à la vie is a fascinating disc containing two collections of works from the French composer Michel Chion. Both pieces are made up of many small sections.
Le prisonnier du son, composed from 1972 to 1991, is narrative, a type of radio play starting with a spoken introduction. Many parts of this long work are decidedly lo-fi and even distorted, showing the technological age of the work. This is not a bad thing. Some of the thrashier bits effectively evoke a trapped sensation. Even though divided into small chunks, the whole composition feels unified.
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