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Drift is a record series that uses non conventional technics of vinyl cutting. For its second issue, Drift-02, a strict protocol was set, cutting 12 grooves of silence on each side, superimposed on top of each other and progressively cut on the surface of the record.
Playing the record produces a randomized path into the different silent grooves. The listener concretely enters the vinyl materiality, experiences the shapes of the empty grooves, the disturbances and the crossings.
Hearing a sound from passing through the stereo panning indicates the pickup is physically drifting on the surface. The same applies to the cracks and drifts, that manifest that the needle has leaped, as the pickup continually drifts grooves throughout its progression. And even if there is no sound cut on the record, singular sounds arise, producing a complex soundscape.
The settings of the turntable, the quality and wear of its needle, its different parameters (consweight, anti-skating…) affect the reading path, unveil the non deterministic nature of the record : the duration is not stable, the reading becomes chaotic, punctuated with accidents, looping or backward phenomena may occur.
DRIFT-02 is the second opus released on the collection DRIFT, after the famous DRIFT-01, released in 2012, with 4 grooves per side, reuniting Martin Tétreault, eRikm, DJ Sniff and Arnaud Rivière.
Cut by Yann Leguay at DK Mastering
Texts by Samon Takahashi « Drift-02 introduction » & « Grooving in Silence ».
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances.
His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour appropriates unusual machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using opened hard-drives as turntables. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing silkscreen records or a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel.
His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback.
Comes with an English text from Samon Takahashi. Limited to 222 copies.
Après Drift 1 qui réunissait Martin Tétreault, eRikm, DJ Sniff et Arnaud Rivière dans des sillons quasi indépendants les uns des autres, Drift 2 de Yann Leguay continue d’explorer les possibles d’une gravure non conventionnelle et un brin aléatoire. Le processus commence ou continue à la fabrication de l’objet musical.
Ici Yann Leguay va encore plus loin puisque qu’il n’y a que du silence gravé sur ce 25 cm dans 12 sillons plus ou superposés et qui emmènent votre bras de lecture (selon ses réglages) au grè de ses envies.
On écoute la surface, la matière même du disque, on pénètre concrètement la matérialité du vinyle, on éprouve ses formes et ses perturbations. Et chaque écoute sera différente et unique !
Du silence vers le bruit. Du bruit vers le silence.
Yann Leguay nous avait déjà fait écouter le chant des disques durs, le catapultage de hauts-parleurs, la chaîne de fabrication de disques vinyls ou de compact disc audio, avait fabriqué un 45 tours sans trou central… Bref un petit génie qui interroge le support et pousse loin la mise en abime de la chaine électroacoustique.
Bel objet avec un texte en anglais de Samon Takahashi. Limité à 222 copies.
Hautement recommandé !