Estrapade
morceaux_de_machines / A_dontigny, Érick d’Orion
…
morceaux_de_machines are unafraid to pull back and let moments of tangential beauty into their noisier explorations. — Musicworks, Canada
Le noise de
morceaux_de_machines est violent, très saturé… mais aussi beau — Critiques de disques, Québec
Prix Opus 2004-05: Disque de l’année — Finaliste
Beware, electronic music fundamentalists
An advice to those who don’t subscribe to any musical chapel, to those for whom music is not a method of mass endoctrination, to those whose blood rate increases with pleasure when sonic tension rises, to those who take comfort in the noise of free machines, you have every reason to be happy
As with every self-respecting improviser does,
The five other pieces featured are monuments of bruitism which bring to mind a word from
But what is an “estrapade”, you ask
- Composer(s): A_dontigny, Érick d’Orion, Diane Labrosse, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault
- Performer(s): morceaux_de_machines, A_dontigny, Érick d’Orion, Diane Labrosse, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault
- Cover image: Guy Boutin
- SODEC
CD (IMNT 0413, 2004)
- 1electronic instrument
- 2electronic instrument
- 3electronic instrument
- 4electronic instrument
- 5electronic instrument
- 6electronic instrument
- 7electronic instrument
- 8electronic instrument
- 9electronic instrument
- Label: No Type
- IMNT 0413
- 2004
- UCC 771028041329
- Total duration: 75:33
- OGpak
- 125 mm × 125 mm × 10 mm
- 55 g
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Dinamically Charged Pleasure
Critique
J’aime les musiciens ne se sentant pas obligés de se justifier avec un thèse de doctorat. Je préfère ceux ne pensant pas que l’art de la musique se limite à une série de connaissances acquises et de techniques maîtrisées. Je crois que l’accumulation des nuances, rendue à un certain point, tue l’excitation plutôt que de la justifier sans cesse davantage. Je suis convaincu que l’utilisation du
Les
Mais, pour ma part, je retiendrais surtout leur performance live très énergique. Certainement, sur disque, ce n’est pas tout à fait la même expérience, mais
Personnellement, la deuxième moitié de cet album m’a un peu moins intéressé.
La pièce titre possède une certaine qualité lyrique (
Anmeldelser
Gennem efterhånden en pæn række udgivelser fra fransk-canadiske
Yoshihides udtryk har ofte en sælsom, zenbuddhistisk ro over sig, som det dog ikke er lykkedes ham at overføre til denne sammenhæng. Ikke forstået på den måde, at man kastes ud i infernalske støjorgier, for
Specielt vellykkede eksempler på denne æstetik er dels kludetæppet
Tortur er
Review
Open collaborative concept allowing DJeeing to meet more abstract electronic noise. Rhythmic motives permeate the tracks and yet remain one possibility, alternating with harsh or subtler passages of digital sampling. Hyper-dense bruitism, improvisation and composition strike an interactive balance while the textures flow like lava rivers.
Translated from Spanish.
Original text
Concepto abierto que permite la colaboración del Djeeing y el ruido electrónico abstracto. Motivos rítmicos permean los cortes pero no siendo sino una posibilidad y alternando con pasajes más o menos duros de sampleado digital. Ruidismo hiperdenso, improvisación y composición en un equilibrio interactivo donde las texturas fluyen cual ríos de lava.
Critique
Prantsuse müraimprov
Plaat kõlab, nagu oleks Grünbergi plaat trammi alla jäänud. Või nagu vanas vene romaanis, kus rotikolju trammirataste vahele kinni kiilus ja huvitavat häält tegi. Ruigava krigina sisemuses on aga aega ja ruumi – sealt näibki meieni kostvat analoogsüntide harmooniline klugin ja kõik need teised vale-Grünpa sulnid helid. Huvitav kombinatsioon, mis laseb müra pikalt nautida. Siis tuleb tagumise saatel veel üks mürakäik (
Review
The sophomore album from this Montréal noise improvisation duo (
Review
Chronique
Qui dit bruitisme ne dit pas fatalement chaos.
Kritik
Recensione
Tonträger
Das Duo aus Kanada, das seine Musik als „Anti-Style” bezeichnet, verschmilzt auf seinem aktuellen Longplayer improvisierten Noise und Musique Concréte zu vielschichtigen elektroakustischen Soundtracks und rabiaten Klangbastarden. Bei den live aufgenommenene Tracks werden sie dabei von den Turntable-Spezialisten
Noise-Loops, Drones, Scratches, verzerrte Drum-Breaks, übersteuerte apokalyptische Sounds, digitales Brüllen, scharfe, beissende Frequenzen, Vocal-Fetzen — all das sind Bestandteile ihrer extremen Tracks, die sowohl Aggression und brutale Dynamik als auch sphärische Parts spannend vereinen, wobei es ihnen dabei hauptsächlich auch darum geht mit Hörgewohnheiten zu brechen und herkömmliche Muster und Strukturen über Bord zu werfen.
Le coin de l’inouï
L’estrapade est une forme de torture médiévale fort cruelle consistant à hisser le condamné en haut d’un mât et à le laisser retomber dans la mer ou à terre.
Parce que ne s’installant pas dans un climat obsessionnel mais au contraire en abordant plusieurs sources et thématiques (bruitisme, techno, jungle… ), l’improvisation de
Una bestia di disco
I
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Review
With the demanding reputation of “B-Boys of musique concrète”, A_Dontigny (prepared cds, turntable, effects) and
Critique
Un album d’electronic-noise dans la grande tradition de la musique post-industrielle. Aux manettes,
Kritik
Improv-Noise und Musique Concrète könnten sogar die Tanzflächen rocken, wenn man sie irgendwo ließe. Das bieten zumindest einige Tracks dieses französischen Duos an, die sich hier mit den Turntablisten
Review
I was warned — the music of Montréal duo morceaux_de_machines would be loud. What I wasn’t told was just how unbearably surprising it could be. The duo made up of long-time radio collaborators on Québec’s CKIA,
Sampling queen
Best of the Month
Critica
Os canadianos
Review
Not at all an easy piece. Use headphones with caution.
Maybe it is the air in Canada. Or the vast territory of land all around. Or maybe it is just the people, the society as a whole and in parts and the overall way of living in the big empty country that makes so many interesting music-projects possible. Apart from the tradition of
Noise in itself is an interesting factor. In everyday life it is usually regarded as a nuisance, something to call the police for or to shout at your kids to stop the noise. In arts noise has become an established factor. For instance, I watched the movie
From the frequency-daddling noise-pitches to the droning echoes and epic atmospheres,
I could never do much with the term music concrete, except for some music standing in the room so loud and vast that the waves of sound form an almost concrete block to bang your head against. Especially in a live setting – as there are some live tracks and some studio tracks on here, you guess which is which – the experience can be very stimulating and exciting. The pathway is narrow though and a lot of times avantgard electronic noise turns into bland trickery or a circus act on the one side or to boredom galore on the other side. (Now ask which one of the two Hasswell belongs to
As morceaux_de_machines state themselves in their small but interesting innersleeve-manifesto, theirs is “anti-music” in an violent and art-terrorist way, which waves a languish hand at sampling’s and destructionist’s long tradition in art, but they well know that there actually is no such music as anti-music (the reasoning is hidden in the paragraphs above).
Kritiek
Recensione
Lo scetticismo regnava nella mia mente al momento di ascoltare
Critique
Review
Noise as a musical genre is no longer the bastard child of Industrial, and while many practitioners and aficionados still subscribe to its no-pain-no-gain aesthetic, there’s a whole basketful of young cats out there who just wanna have fun. Think
Sélections du mois de juin 2005
Joyeux atelier
Review
Other than the self-imposed isolation of a studio, the lack of artistic compromise and proverbial spitting in the face of mainstream success, there’s something that many experimental musicians lack that discourages even the most stalwart fans
Fortunately, people like
Their set incorporates a fused conglomeration of elements, something that never backs down from a challenge, even if it means bending two poles to meet — a mix that sits comfortably atop a history book while swilling cheap merlot from a paper cup. m_d_m propel
Of course, this genre owes a great deal to the pioneers of the Twentieth Century, from Dadaists to Constructivists to even Classicists.
Critique
À côté d’empreintes DIGITALes, la société DIFFUSION i MéDIA propose aussi No Type, soit un label (ou une étiquette comme on dit au Québec) dédié aux musiques électroniques, improvisées et bruitistes. Fondé en 1998 en tant que site web sur lequel étaient proposés gratuitement des albums en mp3, No Type est passé à l’édition discographique en 2002.
À la lecture du communiqué de presse envoyé par No Type, j’ai noté que le compositeur
Recensione
Non fa prigionieri il noise massimalista dei canadesi
Review
Fisicita’ e derive neoconcrete
L’approccio è neoconcretista. […] Non è immediato il passaggio da questo lavoro a
Il vertice del disco è però
Review
“Digital noise” self proclaimed “musique concrete”, looped and layered electroacoustics, most notably masterfully manipulated amplified turntables of
- Scratching under trippy chimes starts this, followed by crunchy sounds, rumbles, tone bursts, you name it, builds intensity then chills [approx] 7 min in, reassembles, awesome
- Digital madness, looped and rhythmic in a cool way
- Looped vague rhythm, doomy creepy noises build and become lush
- Harsh layers immediately, jungly drums give this an electro flare
- Industrial noise feel at outset, electro noise drums appear benieath, grows solemn and chill ~6 min then the layers build again, long piece
- Starts chill, sparse, builds ~3 min heavy noise layers, quiets ~9 min
- Noisey from outset, layered droney higher pitched, builds intensity, mellows at end
- Looped creepiness, intense
- Collage feel, more avante, layers of interesting sounds
Recensione
I canadesi
Temevo invece per il duetto di
Critique
morceaux_de_machines, projet piloté par
Brèves musique
morceaux_de_machines, composé d’
Review
If I am not mistaken (and usually I am) this might be the third CD by Canada’s noise duo morceaux_de_machines, aka
The same
Caleidoscoop
www.actuellecd.com en www.electrocd.com herbergen beide Canadese labels voor nieuwe muziek, jazz, musique concrète, elektro-akoestische muziek, noise en experimentele muziek. De eerste omvat onder meer DAME met sublabel Ambiances Magnétiques, Victo, Squint Fucker Press en Spool. De tweede labels als empreintes DIGITALes en No Type. No Type is het grappigste label, want daarop nemen ze de genregrenzen niet zo nauw en kan je elk van bovenstaande stijlen krijgen gemengd met pop, rock, techno of hiphop.
De Canadees
More texts
- Honker, Terz, June 1, 2005
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- Wednesday, March 1, 2006 / Press
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morceaux_de_machines are unafraid to pull back and let moments of tangential beauty into their noisier explorations. More - Saturday, February 4, 2006 / Press
Le noise de
morceaux_de_machines est violent, très saturé… mais aussi beau More - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 / Press






