Geisteswissenschaften A_dontigny

- Composer(s): A_dontigny
- Performer(s): A_dontigny, Paul Dolden, Diane Labrosse, Jon Vaughn
- Cover image: David Turgeon, A_dontigny
- Canada Council for the Arts • SODEC
Prix Opus 2006-07: Disque de l’année — Finaliste
It is a collage of sound involving different genres and different listening dimensions. — Neural, Italy
… ce premier opus solo […] ne déroge en rien à l’approche toujours caustique, presque ubuesque, des modulations sonores du compositeur québécois. — Octopus, France
“Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall’s fall – i.e., when damn near everything presents itself as familiar — it’s not a surprise that some of today’s most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. [...] Whatever charge of tastelessness or trademark violation may be attached to the artistic appropriation of the media environment in which we swim, the alternative — to flinch, or tiptoe away into some ivory tower of irrelevance — is far worse.” (Foster Wallace, as “plagiarized” by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence, Harper’s Magazine, February 2007)
This first solo CD by composer A_dontigny (morceaux_de_machines, Napalm Jazz, Ensemble Camp…) has been deliberately conceived to be in the margins of electroacoustic music, electronica and audio art.
Thought up as a series of short sarcastic vignettes, Geisteswissenschaften skilfully manipulates common aesthetic postures in order to create a sound mosaic where one can find hints at modern art history and philosophy. To an arsenal of cut-and-paste and cut-ups, to which we may include encoding glitches and all matter of samples and quotes, A_dontigny adds the sonic interventions of three of his usual collaborators: Paul Dolden (electric cello, guitar and bass), Diane Labrosse (sampler) et Jon Vaughn (remix).
An ode to freedom? A manifest against all dogmas? That’ll depend on the mood of the listener. In the end, Geisteswissenschaften wishes to be a celebration of independance of spirit and human intelligence, one of those rare works that continue to be nourished by great hopes.
- No Type
- IMNT 0715 / 2007
- UPC/EAN 771028071524
- Total duration: 60:29
- 1Koons (2006), 3:04electronic instrument
- 2Pruitt-Igoe (2006), 2:05electronic instrument
- 3Tatline (2006), 3:33electronic instrumentPaul Dolden, cello
- 4Aufbau (2006), 2:09electronic instrumentPaul Dolden, electric guitar, cello
- 5Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (2006), 3:22electronic instrument
- 6Quelque chose d’informel (2006), 3:41electronic instrument
- 7Color Field (2006), 2:15electronic instrument
- 8Gutai (2006), 2:58electronic instrument
- 9Recollection of Similarity (2006), 3:04electronic instrument
- 10Begriffsschrift (2006), 4:00electronic instrumentPaul Dolden, electric guitar
- 11Crowding Into the Behavioural Sink (2006), 4:07electronic instrument
- 12Holzwege (2006), 1:48electronic instrument
- 13Turner (2006), 4:27electronic instrument
- 14All-Over (2006), 4:16electronic instrumentPaul Dolden, electric guitar, bass
- 15Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein (2006), 6:26electronic instrumentDiane Labrosse, sampler
- 16Mathesis (2006), 3:41electronic instrument
- 17Remix Jon Vaughnstereo fixed mediumOriginal work: Crowding Into the Behavioural Sink

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