Label: Creel Pone

正式なリリース年は不明(恐らく80年代初頭?)、Radio Franceのカセット部門が出版したスーパー激レアなエデュケーション作[L'Aventure D'Un Son]がCreel Poneのラインナップ入り。Anne Ben Hammou、Monique Frapat、Charles Clapaudの三者がラジオの為に制作、単なる教育ものとは思えない非常に玄人好みな構造及びオブスキュアな仕上がりの作品であり、テキスト朗読に合わせて冷徹且つ無骨な電子音塊を放射する怪しい物語形式も最高。





June 2024; The second in the fledgling "Tape" series here is a replica edition around an undated (early) 1980s affair issued by Radio France / France Music & consisting of a wild trilogy of Radio-Art pieces ("The Spiral Ear", "The Sound Tree", & "The Adventure of a Sound") put together by Composers Anne Ben Hammou, Monique Frapat, & Charles Clapaud.

Consisting of sporadic spoken interjections/introductions/interruptions (reminiscent of the Sturm-und-Drang recitatif of Jean Painlevé 1967 cultural centrepiece "Les amours de la pieuvre") that repeatedly lead into a quite unusual array of laminar Tape-Studio techniques that defy any sort of easy classification, the music here is equal parts David Tudor/Bebe Barron -esque circuit-failure, Dockstader-y FM carrier wave hysteresis, & Schaeffer/Philippot -lineage year-zero Concrète techniques.

The increasingly sporadic narrative elements (framing the music "Pour Enfants De 4 a 7 Ans" - or, "for 4-7 year old children", somewhat amazingly) give way to some of the more gorgeous, abstract Electronic Miniatures. Having only heard a little bit of Clapaud's music over the years, I can hear the tell-tale signs of his Compositional style (if the piece "Ruptures" on the recent GRM "Traces Three" compilation is anything to go by).