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[at100] Jean Ray - Le Refuge

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Date of release:  11.11.2019 Format:  FILE - MP3 / WAV Length: 34 min Artwork:  Audiotalaia / Romain Arnette _ DOWNLOAD RELEASE (WAV) DOWNLOAD RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ _ _ Jean Ray is the sound project of multidisciplinary artist Romain Arnette, based in Paris and initially formed in London in 2009. Experimentation is at the heart of his creative process. He uses different instruments such as guitar, harmonica, percussions, also fields recordings to create a bank of textures and sounds that he transforms and manipulates. The superposition of these fragments combined with electronic sound sources and some software such as pool creates minimalist compositions, an enveloping sound mass where repetitive structures meet sometimes abstract rhythms.  "Le Refuge" album was composed at the end of a two-years stay in Canada, from 2017 to 2019. This album is marked by several isolation experiments in various natural environments, during his crossing of Canada...

[at099] JL Maire - Goodness / Chords From the Elysian Fields

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Date of release: 11.11.2019 Format:  FILE - MP3 / WAV Length: 41 min Artwork:  Audiotalaia / JL Maire _ DOWNLOAD RELEASE (WAV) DOWNLOAD RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ _ Goodness

 This piece continues the exploration used on my previous works. It is based on a selection of different proportions of the western tempered scale. In this case, a series of intervals belonging to the 7-limit, 11-limit o 13-limit systems. The book of tables of intervals by french musicologist Alain Daniélou its been fundamental to the process of selection of the scales and intervals, apart from the usual software to elaborate those. The system used for Goodness and for other pieces done over the years has been a careful selection of specific series of harmonics of a concrete scale. Through that process I explore the new combinations arose between frequency intervals. Aside form that, common concert practice and studio rehearsals has been a fundamental part of this process. It entangles a l...