Figures de son Patrick Ascione

- Composer(s): Patrick Ascione
Everything here appears to be pervaded by an intrinsic kinetic force, by a predisposition to movement… 7/8 — Blow Up, Italy
Figures de son is a way to approach the history of an artist who has written important pages of the genre, but also to discover gems until recently unpublished. — Music Map, Italy
- empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 21171 / 2021
- UPC/EAN 771028217120
- Total duration: 64:13
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
- 1Enième (2004), 10:11fixed medium
- 2Ascionerie no 6: Fantaisie diabolique (2011-12), 11:40fixed medium
- 3Divertissement (2001), 13:46fixed medium
- 4Et puis l’oubli… (1998), 10:06fixed medium
- 5Danse de l’aube (2000-02), 18:21fixed medium
- empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 21171_NUM / 2021
- UPC/EAN 771028217182
- Total duration: 64:13
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
• MP3 • OGG • FLAC
- 1Enième (2004), 10:11fixed medium
- 2Ascionerie no 6: Fantaisie diabolique (2011-12), 11:40fixed medium
- 3Divertissement (2001), 13:46fixed medium
- 4Et puis l’oubli… (1998), 10:06fixed medium
- 5Danse de l’aube (2000-02), 18:21fixed medium

Figures de son
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Notices
At the Core of Sound is Music
“Sound today is to music what colour has been to painting since the beginning of time…”
The major contribution of our art is to have comprehensively revisited the word music, showing that it is not limited to traditional instruments and voice… To have dared to rethink the ancestral notions of music and instrument, and the status of composer.
This renewal of the art of sounds (for music is first and foremost sound) holds in itself – just like traditional or contemporary instrumental works – the ability to appeal to human sensibility and, even, to reach out to a much wider audience than what it currently does. This is made possible by the expressive powers and possibilities of a technology that opens up a vast field of new meanings, and by the innovative imagination of the composers of today.
Of course, we still have to deal with the weight of the conventions of our times…
Patrick Ascione [English translation: François Couture, xi-14]
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In the press
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Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up, March 1, 2021Everything here appears to be pervaded by an intrinsic kinetic force, by a predisposition to movement… 7/8
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Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy, no. 108, March 1, 2021
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Piergiuseppe Lippolis, Music Map, March 1, 2021Figures de son is a way to approach the history of an artist who has written important pages of the genre, but also to discover gems until recently unpublished.
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Roland Torres, SilenceAndSound, February 23, 2021Patrick Ascione fabrique des objets sonores qui fascinent de par leur dimension inclassable, croisant tribalité et sophistication, humour et onirisme. Envoûtant.
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Antonis N Frangos, To Periodiko, February 21, 2021Thus, Figures de son creates a kind of spatial polyphony by mixing prepared recordings through constant improvisation, with unpredictable evolution.
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felthat, January 31, 2021A true master of electroacoustic musique concrète is unfolding truly refreshing and unusually adventureous narrative on display.
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Wolfgang Kabsch, Musik an sich, January 16, 2021One of the few works from this genre that you can actually listen through without overwhelming your senses.
Recensione

Kritik

Recensione
Patrick Ascione è stato un compositore originario di Parigi ma di origine italiana, molto attivo nel campo della musica classica e nelle sperimentazioni elettroacustiche, delle quali ha esplorato a fondo le potenzialità nel corso della propria attività discografica. A gennaio del 2021 è stato pubblicato Figures de son, album postumo che raccoglie alcune composizioni dell’artista scomparso nel 2014. La prima di queste è Enième, che risale al 2004 e vede incastri e sovrapposizioni di voci su suoni naturali e brevi inserti strumentali e che precede Ascionerie no 6: Fantaisie diabolique, il cui percorso è più lungo, ma anche più lineare. Per tutti i quasi dodici minuti, le percussioni sembrano viaggiare a velocità doppia, fino al climax su suoni selvaggi che annuncia la coda. Divertissement, invece, mostra una vocazione più classicheggiante, con suoni elettronici liquidi in grado di suggerire atmosfere sinistre e inquiete, con un effetto simile a quello di Et puis l’oubli…, che sembra inseguire il mostro di fumo visto in Lost. Danse de l’aube è decisamente più dolce e rassicurante nel suo incedere e a tratti sembra destrutturare forme di world music nel classico soliloquio elettroacustico. Figures de son è un modo per approcciarsi alla storia di un artista che ha scritto pagine importanti del genere, ma anche per scoprire chicche fino a poco tempo fa inedite.
Critique
Compositeur de musiques électroacoustiques, disparu prématurément en 2014, Patrick Ascione après des études de musique classique, s’est formé à l’IMEB (anciennement GREM), et développera par la suite la composition sur ordinateur à l’IRCAM.
Figures de son regroupe cinq œuvres composée entre 1998 et 2012. La particularité de son travail réside dans l’utilisation de l’espace et du traitement sonore, allant jusqu’à injecter des bribes de drum’n’bass sur le sensationnel Ascionerie no 6: Fantaisie diabolique.
Expérimental tout en restant très accessible, la musique de Patrick Ascione est d’une richesse infinie, mélangeant énormément de genres et d’approches au sein de son répertoire. La froideur chez lui, peut prendre des allures de chaudron bouillonnant d’où s’échappent des bulles de frénésie pure, éclatant sur des parois vitrifiées.
Son utilisation du rythme est aussi omniprésente, bien que de manière peu académique, insufflant à chaque son un tempo qui n’est pourtant pas issu d’instruments percussifs. Patrick Ascione fabrique des objets sonores qui fascinent de par leur dimension inclassable, croisant tribalité et sophistication, humour et onirisme. Envoûtant.
Review
Γεννημένος στο Παρίσι, ο συνθέτης ηλεκτροακουστικής Patrick Ascione σπούδασε αρχικά κλασική μουσική πριν θητεύσει στο περίφημο Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges, τέλη του 1970. Συνήθως, με τον όρο ηλεκτροακουστική μουσική θεωρούμε έργα όπου πέρα των κλασικών οργάνων χρησιμοποιούνται field recordings και ήχοι από συνθεζάιζερς. Η έμφαση δίνεται όχι στην μελωδία ή τον ρυθμό αλλά σε άλλα χαρακτηριστικά όπως στον χώρο (space), στην δομή ή στο φάσμα. Ούτως, το Figures de son δημιουργεί ένα είδος πολυφωνίας του χώρου (spatial polyphony) με την μείξη προετοιμασμένων ηχογραφήσεων μέσω διαρκούς αυτοσχεδιασμού, με απρόβλεπτη εξέλιξη.
Review
Patrick Ascione (1953-2014) is getting his new posthumous release.
A true master of electroacoustic musique concrète is unfolding truly refreshing and unusually adventureous narrative on display.
His idea of spatial polyphony as he used to call it gives you an insight into what it was to mould and blend so many counterpoints into a densely punctured storyline of his works — an interesting set of pieces with its own rhythm and reason.
A narrative is something that is overused, abused and de-constructed in a masterful way — be it processed concrete sounds or voiceover — it will always be a point of positive friction with how you can cope it as a listener and how it leaves an impression on you.
Ascione experimented with beatmaking and plunderphony in his own way. It’s a good way to remember him trying to dwelve on this goldmine of ideas and aspects and details and vibes…
Kritik
Patrick Ascione war ein 1953 geborener französischer, studierter klassischer Komponist und Elektronikmusiker sowie Experimentalmusiker. Er verstarb 2014 während der Arbeit (der Postproduktion) an für dieses Album vorgesehenen Stücken. Einen Großteil seines Lebens hat er mit dem Lehren von moderner Komposition und vor allem elektroakustischer Musik verbracht, aber nebenbei auch einige eigene Kompositionen geschrieben und aufgenommen. msng enthält nun fünf Aufnahmen aus den Jahren 1998-2004.
Patrick Ascione pflegte auf diesen Stücken einen sehr perkussiven Ansatz. Viele der elektronisch erzeugten Klänge funktionieren als Perkussion und gestalten eine sehr rhythmische, aber obskure Klangwelt. Was jedoch bei vielen Arbeiten anderer elektroakustischer Soundmaler am Ende wie dissonantes Geräusch klingt, wird bei Patrick Ascione tatsächlich zu einem klangmalerischen Gesamtbild. Dies liegt daran, dass er die unwirklichen Klänge immer wieder in melodische und/oder sehr getragene (bombastische) Gewänder steckt.
Diese verschweißen die scheinbar endlosdauernden Sounds zu eben diesem Gesamtkunstwerk. Aus den fünf Stücken entsteht ein Wall of Sound, der nicht erdrückt und immer wieder in ruhige, eher zerbrechliche Parts zurückfällt. Durch das Zusammenwirken aller Element entsteht ein Soundtrack für obskures Kopfkino.
Eines der wenigen Werke aus diesem Genre das man tatsächlich durchhören kann ohne seine Sinne zu überfordern.