Label: Sublime Retreat

パリ生まれの作曲家でありミュージック・コンクレートをGRMにてPhilippe MionとJacques Lejeuneに師事、また近年はChris WatsonやFrancisco Lopezと共にフィールドレコーディングに関する活動も展開しているEmmanuel Mieville。中国、マレーシア、台湾を旅した際に採集した、街中の仏教寺院、周辺の有名な山々、野生動物や昆虫の声など用いた、アジアのサウンドスケープ・コンクレート[Travelog to Asia]。かなり生々しい風景がダイレクトに使用されていますが、旅の記録を単なるドキュメンタリーとして纏めただけでなく、随所にミックスの妙が出現する確かなコンポジション作品。





This « carnet de voyage sonore », sonic diary in english, is more than a documentary outcome of my numerous travels in Asia.

It’s a heartfelt project yielded by my trips who always merge personal events, encounters, desire to discover asian countries with artistic endeavours, i-e concerts, recordings.
The countries recorded here are : China, Malaysia, and Taiwan.The biggest part of the sounds are from Chengdu, China in 3 of the 4 tracks.They are recorded in buddhist temples in town , and
on famous mountains around the city, with nature wildlife, insects – and also buddhist and taoist temples.
The sounds recorded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are from a huge rock mountain with excavation inside where hinduist indian people pray : Batucave.

The field recording are for me a base, to compose with electronis tools, as I am a « musique concrète » composer, or electroacoustic composer.I used a tool that is very fascinating for me : granular synthesis.Other sources includes bass clarinet and percussion.

Emmanuel Mieville

Paris-born composer Emmanuel Mieville studied sound engineering in a film school and musique concrète at the GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) with Philippe Mion and Jacques Lejeune.He has also studied ethnic instruments and played Javanese gamelan in Paris for two years.

Since his childhood, Mieville has been constantly listening to creative radio programs, something that has fueled his approach to experimental music and soundscape composition. He has produced many programs for French national radios (France-culture and France-Musique). He is a regular contributor for Framework, the field recording show Patrick McKinley produces.
His interest in aural perception and memories engraved in urban and wildlife environments produces compositions where field recordings are layered, mixed and sometimes manipulated with effects. His goal is to portray a specific location, to let its blurred and sonic emotions reach the listener’s ears, to sculpt and compose the “concrete” substance of sound for the listener’s pleasure.

He has worked with Buto dancers and video artists. He improvised with fellow musicians like Eric Cordier, Guido Huebner, Benjamin Thigpen, Sun Wei, among others. His electroacoustic works have been presented in festivals by Motus and Licences-Brûlures des langues (France), Confluencias (Spain), and the Udine Composition Competition in Italy (final selection). He has performed concerts and improvised solo or with musicians in Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, France(Instants Chavirés), and Germany.He participated to the international symposium with artistic and scientific contributions :Invisible cities 2017, in Azores island, Portugal, where he gave a workshop on field recording and granulation of sounds-and closing concert of the event.He recently took part in a workshop with Chris Watson, organized by Camp in the Pyrénées mountains, on field recordings, with insight approach to his recording technology(and more recently with Francisco Lopez). He has contributed to the magnificent exhibition ”Audiosfera” in Museo Reina Sofia(Madrid),in 2021, curated by Francisco Lopez, where 700 sound artists and musicians were presented in a deep listening environement, without installations or visual works.