Label: Portraits GRM

重鎮及びベテラン作曲家勢のクラシック音源を中心とする"Recollection GRM"に続き、INA GRMとEditions MEGOが共同で開始したGRM委託による現行の作家シリーズ"Portraits GRM"シリーズ。第14弾は現行の女性エクスペリメンタル系作家の中でも非常に重要な位置にいるSarah Davachiと、2016年にGRMの芸術監督に就任した変名Kassel Jaegerとしても知られるFrancois Bonnetのスプリット。電子オルガン、シンセサイザー、メロトロンを用い自宅スタジオにて幽玄なレイヤーを作ったSarah Davachiサイド、スコットランドのスタファ島、スカイ島で収集した環境音で組み立てたフィールド音コンクレートのFrancois Bonnetサイド、どちらも抽象的で美しいアプローチの楽曲。





François J. Bonnet – Banshee
Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas and archipelagos. Drawing its raw material from recordings made in the Inner Hebrides, Banshee tightly weaves a fabric where the sonic avatars of fauna, flora and climate merge with the human presence, its tools and its culture. Thus, a small boat cleaving through a loch becomes the voice of the mountains and wilderness, and the howling of the wind on the moors becomes the lament of a Banshee, harbinger of death, messenger of the Other World.

Sarah Davachi – Basse Brevis
Co-commissioned by Radio France and INA grm, Basse Brevis by Canadian composer Sarah Davachi was premiered at the Présences 2024 festival, which was dedicated to Steve Reich. Drawing on her own minimalist approach, Sarah Davachi explores, with extreme care, the weavings and complex relationships between the timbral, spatial and durational components of music. Using developments that can be appreciated over time, the composer manages to create music that is extremely precise, subtle and lively. But what is striking, and particularly evident in Basse Brevis, is that such an approach, both abstract and restrained, is nonetheless at times utterly poignant. The work combines moments of formal exploration with moments of pure emotion in a perfectly mastered fashion, creating a gentle tension as it swings between two modes of listening that navigate indecisively within both instrumental and concrete approaches, tracing, in parallel, a diagonal of sound that unfolds around perception, sensation and feeling.

François J. BONNET « Banshee » (2024)

Music composed from materials collected on the Isles of Mull, Staffa and Skye, Inner Hebrides, August 2022

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi / Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle
Photo by Didier Allard © INA / Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley

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Sarah DAVACHI « Basse Brevis » (2023)

Performed (electric organ, synthesizer, Mellotron) and recorded by Sarah Davachi at home in Los Angeles, CA, USA