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| Eric Cordier OSOREZAN: Selected field recording 1993 - 2007 |
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| Eric Cordier Currents works : He plays solos of electronic music under the name of NOL (20 concerts during the past 4 years), work on sound-sculptures with Denis Tricot: the Wooden Organ (21 exhibitions in the past 4 years & 10 more to come), a performance/action/body art project call Ruderal with Satoko Fujimoto (sound) ; and plays in several improves bands Enkidu, Suture, Pheromone…. He also composed tape music that have been premiered in various festivals especially during the year 2006 after comand on the themas of animal (Excentrique/Chaumont-Loire) and mineral : reconstitution of the sonic identity of La Ferté-sous-Jouarre city before world war II and the fall of the local stone industry “Meulière”, festival Mémoire Vives, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre. 15 concerts of tape music under the name/themas “art & travail/Pied d’âne” has been done during the 2 last years with Denis Tricot in doing performances when he built the sculpture in front of the audiences at the same time. Studies : He has studied fine arts, body-art & music. He is both interested in popular culture and academic. In 2002 he earned a PhD in Ethnology/Religious Science in analysing the popular culture of the peasants of the Normandy during the XIXth century. Some articles are available in French on werewolf, fairies, elves, goblins, imps, bee honey, and the opposition between wild and domestic animals. He has done recordings of popular music : Lu Sheng dance and songs in a Thai minority of China, the Dong for ethnology. Previous works: He worked 2 years at the contemporary music studio Grame in Lyon (87-89, national service) and as a composer (89-91) and after at the contemporary music studio La Grande Fabrique Dieppe (92-98). Since then he work in his own studio. As he worked as an archaeologist he had study fine art and began to do body-art performances/tape music between 1986 and 1994 under the name of Nadir, with Jean Luc Guionnet and Cécile Maupoux (21 performances in France, Germany and The Netherlands). He was a sound engineer on the Industrial-EBM band The Grief during tours in 1990 and 1991: The Netherlands : Nijmegen, Utrecht, Hoorn, Amsterdam; France : Paris, Montpelier, Saint-Malo, Portugal : Coimbra, Funchal (Madera). He was also sound engineer for contemporary music concerts as M. Kagel and theatre tour since 1989. He plays hurdy-gurdy in various improves, free-rock or industrial bands : UNACD, Schams, Phéromone, Tore, Enkidu. He was credited with introducing Keiji Hayno to the hurdy-gurdy in November 92, as well as Jim o'Rourke in October 95. He has played in the Duet with Dominique Regef (Malicorne). His interest in fine arts and music is conjugated in sound environments exhibitions. There has been around twenty exhibits in 10 years: References : Festival Tramway Rouen, Aéronef Lille, CREDAC Ivry, Traffics Nantes Member of the team of programation of festival Tramway 95-96 : K. Brotzmann/Massaker, Alboth, Painting, Denis Colin trio, Berthet/Le Junter, Deux fois rien (A Spirli), Hint, Prohibition, Kinobits (Noetinger/Tanaka/Zetel/Le Quan), Thierry Robin, Alejandro Vinao… Radio producer at the national French radio France Culture : Tentative première/Clair de nuit, Nuits Magnétiques 1991, "La Lisière de Forêt" & various Atelier de Création Radiophonique with J-L Guionnet, E La Casa, Toy Bizarre… Selected discography : Solo works : -"Breizhiselad", CD, 73‘, Erewhon (B), 2006. -"Digitalis purpurea", CD 53’, Ground Fault (USA), 2003. -"Houlque", CD, 73‘, +Livret/Booklet, La Grande Fabrique (F), 1996. -"Hierre", CD various artistes, Erratum #2, 19' 39" Erratum (F), 1999. Afflux (vernacular music, project with Jean Luc Guionnet & Eric La Casa) - "Air stream/Water stream : Aizier, Dieppe… ", CD 70', Edition…, (USA), 2002. - "Bouquetot/Paris/Port-Jérôme", CD 70', Ground Fault, (USA), 2002. - "TNT", CD 72', And/Or, (USA), 2006 |
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: Osorezan 19:53 L'Air dans l'eau (05:48) L'Air dans l'air (04:33) L'Air et l'eau (09:31) Transbordement 07:50 Dekishima 02:19 Le feu de Saint Clair 14:20 Le Montage du feu (07:13) Les Tintenelles et le feu (07:03) Par temps Sec 18:11 Notes: Osorezan, (la montagne de la peur) L’air dans l’eau L’air dans l’air L’air et l’eau Recorded in Niseko, southwest of Hokaïdo and in Osorezan, northern of Honshu in August 2006. Gas emanation of volcano in Japan. The sound recordings were carried out in the depths and then re-organised. We listen to gas bubbling in water, gas mouths, gas that creates rhythms while escaping from under a dead leaf down in the clay, whistling…All panoramic movements, repetitions, effects of phasing have been carried out during the time of the recording, travelling at the mouth to gather the sound of sulphur gas as a sound pallette. Transbordement The outward and return journey of the ferry, crossing the Seine River between Heurteauville and Jumièges, downstream from Rouen (with the unloading of the cars). Recorded in Heurteauville on July 17, 1993. Dekishima Recorded on the 1st january 2005. It is the sound of the wires of a ’"bridge" at the sea side during a small storm (north Honshu, west coast, Aomori area). A "bridge" because it is a typical useless Japanese object built just for giving work to the construction industry. A surealistic place, a road to nowhere as if it were just to throw cars into the sea. Le feu de Saint Clair La Haye de Routot is one of the more interesting villages in Normandy, a meeting point of ethnology and tourism. It has preserved rare traditions; it has an extraordinary heritage, two yew trees of two thousand years old, both large and hollow with vaults carved within. And since a few decades, an eco-museum specialising in bread and wood-shoes was established there. I know this place well, 3km away from my native village. It is this place too where I had recorded part of my second CD (U.n.a.c.d.). The recording takes place on a festival day, it was an occasion of participation for my grandfather who set up once in a year the electrical supply brought by a mobile generator and my father who thereafter wired the sound system for the festival and especially for the mass in the small church. Every year on July 16, of my childhood, I assisted with the kindling then the combustion of the 14 meters high bonfire. Le montage du feu The brotherhood of charity, once in a year collaborates in the building for this bonfire, which will be set ablaze in the evening. They are a team of volunteers, who work on the building site (with good mood). Les tintenelles et le feu Standing in a central point of the cemetery, halfway between the church and the fire, precisely under one of these giant trees, the happenings according to my perspective. One hears successively the harmonium during the end of the mass resounding in the cemetery, then the drum of the garde champêtre (a kind of rural policeman), which opens the way to the procession among crowd. Then the tintenelles (bells) played by the master of the brotherhood of charity. The audience becomes quiet for a moment in respect for the religious authorities before returning to hubbub. The tintennelles disappear behind a low wall and then the fire begins. Field recordings caught in 1993. Par temps sec (In dry weather) The beginning of a summer afternoon in a small hamlet Le Mazel, Champy, Ardeches, south of France. Microphones set up behind a hedge, close to a small country path catching the activity at a precise moment. This recording did not undergo any editing or mixing. Texts & Translations by Eric Cordier, with help by Siew Y'ng Yin & Goh Lee Kwang |
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