ERIC CORDIER

nice paper silk screen cover. 'La Cité du Bruit' naviguates to the limits of silence and phenomenal noise with a permanent tension. The composition was born from the confrontation of fighter-bomber planes - making 'noise' to be heard in all its power, excess and chaos - with the regular nature of iterative sound phenomenons, such as the charging/discharging of electrons inside the condensers of a microphone, or the steady or quickening crackle of aquatic insects. This piece brings together elements contrasting in structure and nature. The displays of the Bourget's air show (recorded from 19th to 21st June, 2009) provide with a profusion of unstructured sounds with such an intensity you would feel it through your body. In contrast, extremely amplified micro-phenomenons such as the aquatic insects recorded in the Bois de Vincennes in (during the summer of 2009), bring, with their simplicity, a very musical articulation. Everything here is about interweaving contrasting elements, but which eventually become a structure. 'La Cité du Bruit' was created on the 22nd of November, 2009, during the 'Kunst' program of Austrian national radio ORF, as part of a series of broadcats curated by the label Gruenrekorder. (label info)