Label: Fragments Editions

やはり素晴らしいレーベルです!!当店大人気のLauten Der SeeleやTomagaを積極的に手掛けるHands In The Darkのサブレーベル"Fragments Editions"の第四弾タイトル!!機械の駆動音をそのまま用いた無骨な録音やインスタレーションを手掛けるベテランPali Meursault、マイク録音を主な創作手段とした科学的視点の音制作に勤しむThomas Tillyが共同録音を制作。ジャケットのイメージ通り、3年間続けて来たアルプスの氷河が放つ音と振動を捉えたものであり、現在も進行中という研究プロジェクトを作品化したもの。以前当店が紹介したチューリッヒの工科大学"ETHZ"による水録音[Bodies of Water]にも通じる、異常にカッコイイ音風景作品に仕上がっており、多少の加工が施されているものの、あくまで原型の良さを生かす為の編集で留めている部分も素晴らしい。お見逃し無く。



In 2020, Pali Meursault and Thomas Tilly collaborated to create 'Radio Glaces', a fourteen-part sound collection featuring recordings of glaciers in the Alps and testimonies from people who have a close relationship with this environment: glaciologists, geomorphologists, hut wardens, mountaineers and high-mountain guides.

As a continuation of this first project, 'Melt*' was a series of improvised performances by the duo of sound artists, playing back the sounds and vibrations of the glaciers as they conducted a microphonic auscultation of the crevasses, rimayes and torrents of the Oisans mountain range.

The outcome of a research project that began over three years ago and is still ongoing, Melt* is based on the recording of a concert at GMEA (Albi) in early 2023, and is available as a vinyl record published by Fragment Editions.

Sound recordings made in 2020 on the glaciers of Mont-de-Lans, la Girose, Sarenne, la Pilatte and Saint-Sorlin (Oisans-Écrins, France), for the Radio Glaces project.

Field recordings, sonified ice, processing and sine waves played live by Pali Meursault & Thomas Tilly at Grand Théâtre d’Albi on February 4th, 2023, in the frame of ‘L’Expérience du Terrain’, a program by GMEA.