Label: Hors Territoires

フランス・アヴァン/電子音楽界の伝説的人物の新作!!なんと全曲70分超えの超大作4CDセット!!2025年最重要タイトル!!本邦NHK電子音楽スタジオの録音ブツ[楽の道]をはじめ、僧侶迎え国立劇場で行われた演目[観想の焔の方へ]など、ここ日本での活動でも知られる伝説的コンポーザーのジャン＝クロード・エロワ。なんと2017〜2019年掛けて制作をしていたという最新作[Reminiscences]を発表。オランダのソノロジー研究所で制作した1979/1980年の電子音響素材、NHK電子音楽スタジオで録音された吉原すみれの膨大なパーカッション・アーカイブ、更にガストン・シルヴェストル、マイケル・ランタの作品もマテリアルとして使用、それらを再構成し[Shanti]や[楽の道]にも劣らない騒音コンクレートとしてアウトプットした集大成的超傑作。24ページのブックレットが付属する5面デジパック。

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With Réminiscences (2017–2019), Jean-Claude Éloy embarks on an ambitious journey through memory, transformation, and pure listening. This vast electroacoustic cycle—comprising Incantation, Confrontation, Contemplation, and Oppression-Libération—draws deeply from the sound world of his seminal work Yo-In. Éloy recycles and reworks electroacoustic materials originally created at the Institute of Sonology (Utrecht, 1979/1980) and incorporates an extraordinary archive of percussion samples recorded at his request by Japanese percussionist Sumire Yoshihara at NHK’s Electronic Music Studio in Tokyo, as well as contributions from Gaston Sylvestre and Michael Ranta.

Unlike the original 1980 version—conceived as a sound theater for an imaginary ritual and realized with the participation of Michael W. Ranta—Réminiscences is conceived as a purely electroacoustic experience, liberated from the constraints of live performance. Éloy focuses on the most distinctive sources: boat sirens, natural phenomena (volcanoes, wind, rain, waves), African bird calls, industrial noises, and a wide palette of metallic, wooden, and skin percussion. The result is a celebration of sound itself—an acoustic ritual where each work explores a specific theme through the metamorphosis of its materials.

Éloy’s intent is to draw the listener into a heightened state of auditory perception, encouraging a deep concentration on the sonic phenomena at the heart of the music. Réminiscences stands as a testament to his lifelong exploration of the power of listening and the transformative potential of electroacoustic art. Produced at Studio Eve-Défense, the composer’s home studio, and presented in a 5-panel digipak with a 24-page booklet, this release is both a culmination and a renewal of Éloy’s creative universe.