Each one if followed by a minimal electronic piece. In quite an interesting move, mathieu has just launched his own label. Thats right, besides the precisiondesigned harmonicallyrich drones, which are the result of mathieu s staple processing of acoustic instruments, ebowed virginals, phonoharp, and radio shortwaves, chauveau sings on every single track, with lyrics written by bill callahan aka smog. Raime the last foundry quarter turns over a living line blackest ever black 8. Traditional electronic, ambient, modern classical, electroacoustic, experimental. People have written entire books on this subject, so i wont even go there. Morris we were animals tall firs out of it and into it tamaryn tender new signs tape loop orchestra in a lonely place taskerlands taskerlands taylor deupree. Palimpsest took an unexpected turn when sylvain chauveau only added his voice to the tracks presented by stephan mathieu leaving the. Reminiscent of morton feldman, time is suspended to the unresolved piano chords. Palimpsest appears on schwebung as one of the very first pressings featuring vocals by chauveau himself. Literature, criticism, theory provides the first ever genealogy of this metaphor.
Created as a platform for distributing his own solo works, as well as collaborations, such as this one with sylvain chauveau, the label aims to please audiophiles with 250g vinyl and highresolution 24. When stephan mathieu started his own label digicult. Philippe braqueniers palimpsest is a documentary project that crops up from this hastily developing technological landscape. Schwebung is the latest project by german sound artist stephan mathieu who has. He currently lives in bonn, germany where he runs an independent studio for audio mastering and restoration. German sound artist stephan mathieu and french electronics man sylvain chauveau have collaborated on a new album, palimpsest artwork. Listen to free internet radio, sports, music, news, talk and podcasts. Modern classicalpi anoambient experimental sylvain chauveau 12 albums, 2 ep, 2 compilations 200020, mp3, 128320 kbps. Publications are crafted to the highest standard and with utmost care. Aldo tamborrelli massimo ruocco construction related tags rhythm and blues freakbeat add tags view all tags from the album play album.
Palimpsests goodreads meet your next favorite book. If you enjoy the quietus, please consider supporting what we do with a oneoff or regular donation. It was first introduced to me by my friend dj olive who was involved in the phenomena audio arts and multiples label alongside toshio kajiwara. Its no secret how much weve loved stephan mathieus sublime drones and sylvain chauveaus delicate compositions in the past, so to see these two pillars of experimental music collaborating has got us hot under the collar. Ape art paper editions is an imprint founded in 2010 by jurgen maelfeyt of ghentbased design studio 656.
Art gallery the artwoods the artwoods i take what i want, listeners. In june of 2012, stephan mathieu launched his very own label schwebung. In architecture, the word palimpsest is used to refer to the accumulation of design elements in a particular place over time. It explores the notion of the palimpsest and an auditory site survey for the complex and characterful area of canals in digbeth, birmingham. Sylvain chauveau, from ensemble 0, has made solo records on labels such as fatcat, sub. Palimpsest, by french vocalist and multiinstrumentalist sylvain chauveau and german sound artist stephan mathieu, sets some of callahans more notable lyrics to an instrumental backing of heavily processed zither, farfisa organ and brass. Stephan mathieu born 11 october 1967 is a german musician and sound artist whose work is. Tha callahan iv bill talks apocalypse laura snapes, april 4th, 2011 05. Type 2007 and his collaboration with stephan mathieu, palimpsest schwebung, 2012.
Last we heard from him was the fantastic collection of minimal crooning singular forms sometimes repeated, and abstractions. Stream live events, live playbyplay nfl, mlb, nba, nhl, college football, ncaa basketball, and premier league matches. Sylvain chauveau might not be the first artist that springs to mind when you think remix, but abstractions manages to sweep up the rare occasions when the french neoclassical feller allows himself to tackle tunes out of his regular comfort zone. This is edu hackenitzs music collection on bandcamp. Sarah dillons original theorisation argues that the palimpsest has an involuted structure which illuminates and advances modern thought. Epk sylvain daniel palimpseste, voyage imaginaire dans. Schwebung is mathieus own label, dedicated to release solo and collaborative work on vinyl and as highresolution files. The verona palimpsest or fragmentum veronese is a manuscript, dated about the 494 ce, which contains a christian collection of church orders in latin.
Sylvain chauveau electronic easy listening funkysouls. Sylvain chauveau is a member of ensemble 0 codirected with stephane garin and joel. Its no secret how much weve loved stephan mathieu s sublime drones and sylvain chauveau s delicate compositions in the past, so to see these two pillars of experimental music collaborating has got us hot under the collar. Stephan mathieu born 11 october 1967 is a german musician and sound artist whose work is based on digital and analog processing techniques. Process, commissioned by the 25th music biennale zagreb, is based on orson welles film adaption of franz kafkas unfinished novel the trial.
We took this opportunity to catch up with stephan and set out some questions about his new endeavours. The black book of capitalism le livre noir du capitalisme 2001. Robert hampson, sylvain chauveau, david sylvian and others on electronic. Written in collaboration with sylvain chauveau, palimpsest will be the first record out on schwebung on the 21st of september and released as a limited edition of 500. Although im feeling very previleged to work with some great labels from around the world since the mid 90s, i thought it was the right moment to do it myself. It bears witness to the contemporary infrastructures of information repositories.
Literature in the second degree is an influential 1982 book by french literary. Here is the first ever vinyl pressing of his collection of work for film and rare and unreleased tracks. Hes one of the slightly lesser known neoclassical composers and is often used as a footnote if folks talk about max richter or nils frahm. Ape focusses on the book as an exhibition space and are made in close collaboration with artists, writers, institutions, galleries, and other cultural protagonists. Demdike stare kommunion alternate version elemental modern love 9.
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