Tracks from Marc-Henri Arfeux – «Chromatic Travels» have featured in the «Electronic Therapy» radioshow which took place on February 12, 2016.
Thanks to Julien and Francis.
Genre: Abstract
Tracks from Marc-Henri Arfeux – «Chromatic Travels» and Depletion Region – «Granular Dominions 1» have featured in the «Electronic Therapy» radioshow which took place on October 16, 2015.
Thanks to Julien and Francis.
Tracks by Marc-Henri Arfeux have featured in Sadayatana Podcast #197 «Dark to Dark» (September 28, 2014).
Listen and find there:
- «Study Of Black Matter» from Marc-Henri Arfeux – «Chromatic Travels»
- «Study Of White Matter» from Marc-Henri Arfeux – «Chromatic Travels»
Thanks to John Tocher.
Cat.# … DNA 161
Release Date … 26.09.2014
Genre … Abstract, Electroacoustic
Type … FLAC Lossless
««Chromatic Travels» explores the birth of light and colours in parallel with the infinite journey of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 beyond the borders of the solar system. This series of studies in electroacoustic music express the mystery of our universe at the core of unknown.
Heliopause: Heliopause was by pure chance finished composing the very day the news was given Voyager 1 had officially crossed the heliopause, the border of the solar system. I was very touched by this coincidence since this piece precisely expressed the journey of the Voyager space probes mission and their journey through the heliopause, the last edge before the interstellar regions.
Siralia: As soon as I had the news about Voyager 1 entrance in interstellar space, I composed this second piece expressing the mystery of this new journey in the unknown side the little space probe was the first human ship to explore it. For me, this was a great source of emotion since through Voyager 1, it is a part of mankind who now explores these regions of universe. The title comes from the name of the double star Sirius, one of of our «close» neighbours in the galaxy. It also refers to Stockhausen’s opera entitled “Sirus” as a poetic echo.
Study Of Black Matter: Our universe is supposed to be partly composed of a mysterious substance, invisible and exactly inverse to matter: black matter. This piece explores the spiritual essence of this substance as a secret inner light non one can feel, and as the source of all vision, light and colours experience veiled by this enigmatic reality.
Study Of White Matter: In this piece I imagined black matter’s core is composed of an enigmatic white matter, the white being the chromatic source of every colour.
Chromata: Chromata explores the birth of colours out of light, the opening of life and beauty through this mysterious source.
Monochromies: Monochromies are supposed to be one single colour objects, for instance in painting. Here the monochrome essence becomes secretly a principle of infinite chromatic creation, a symbol of the deep mystery of everything.
This album ends with a composition dedicated to the French electroacoustic music Bernard Parmegiani, one of my favourites, who died the 21th of November 2013. He had composed a long piece untitled «Creation of the World». My own composition is a ritual to celebrate him and accompany him to the mysterious border where the encounter with the white spiritual substance of everything begins. It is a way to end this album with a journey of soul in the unknown of the infinite.»
— Marc-Henri Arfeux
Tracklisting:
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Heliopause (04:16)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Siralia (08:51)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Study Of Black Matter (14:52)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Study Of White Matter (08:18)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Chromata (02:58)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Monochromies (09:52)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – In Memoriam Bernard Parmegiani(08:14)
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Tracks by Marc-Henri Arfeux and Ices Ov have featured in Sadayatana Podcast #73 «In The Name of Peace» (March 24, 2012).
Listen and find there:
- «Scansion» from Marc-Henri Arfeux – «House Of Morpheus»
- «Memoria» from Ices Ov – «Memoria»
Thanks to John Tocher.
Cat.# … DNA 102
Release Date … 30.01.2011
Genre … Abstract, Ambient
Type … FLAC Lossless
«Since the XVIth century, the river Loire has always been a poetic emblem in French culture and arts, for the beauty of its slow waters and landscapes. In the second part of the XXth century, the great painter Olivier Debré who lived on its banks often refered in his subtle abstract way to its moving lights and colours along seasons and hours.
This album expresses my own tribute to Olivier Debré and his Loire paintings I admire deeply, in the form of a symphonic poem for synthesizers and various electronic devices, divided into seven parts. Each one has a title Olivier Debré could have chosen and conveys into music an imaginary Loire vision he could have painted. Has the most feminine of the French rivers, music is a constant metamorphosis of miraculous unique instants in progress.»
Marc-Henri Arfeux
Photo by Marc-Henri Arfeux.
Artworks by Dodeccaheedron.
Tracklisting:
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Bleue Transparente Avec Irisations (12:52)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Bleue-Grise Aux Accents Jaunes (09:38)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – D’Ardoise Et Ligne Blanche (08:52)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Grande Loire D’Hiver (10:32)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Noire Et Or (11:20)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Coulées De Loire (12:28)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Bleue Sombre Aux Scintillements (09:46)
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Cat.# … DNA 95
Release Date … 15.09.2010
Genre … Industrial, Noise, Abstract
Type … mp3 CBR 320 kbps
«Lacrima Christi» is an unreleased album that has been originally recorded live in 2004 at the music festival in Jamet Hall at Saint-Herblain, France.
This enhanced version was out as ultra-limited self-released cassette (10 copies).
«Lacrima Christi» is influenced by long period of excessive alcohol consumption (in particular famous Italian wine) and by author’s atheist conviction.
Tracklisting:
- Wehwalt – Lacrimale 1 (07:00)
- Wehwalt – Lacrimale 2 (07:00)
- Wehwalt – Lacrimale 3 (07:00)
- Wehwalt – Lacrimale 4 (07:00)
- Wehwalt – Lacrimale 5 (07:00)
- Wehwalt – Lacrimale 6 (06:00)
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Cat.# … DNA 91
Release Date … 15.07.2010
Genre … Abstract, Ambient
Type … FLAC Lossless
Myrrha refers to a greek legend. According to this story, Myrrha, victim of her incestuous father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus, implored the gods to banish her from the world of the living and the dead, after a nine moons restless wandering in the woods. They changed him into a tree. The myrrh is said to be the loading of her tears during her transformation.
In the end, through a split in her bark, she gave birth to Adonis, a major god representing death and renewal, who is associated to roses and myrtle.
Although this album is inspired by this legend, it does not follow the purpose to depict the sad adventures of Myrrha, but must be interpreted as a symbol of creation. The music, changeable and always unexpected, begins to develop its mental flow and carries our deep emotions. One hears distant whispers, the breath of wind and the things coming to life from the very core of their stillness, to create a sound painting of man’s and nature’s most secret inner forces.
Artwork by Knell.
Tracklisting:
- Wehwalt – Birth Of Adonis I (23:54)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Birth Of Adonis II (26:30)
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Cat.# … DNA 81
Release Date … 20.03.2010
Genre … Ambient, Abstract, Experimental
Type … FLAC Lossless
«The «House Of Morpheus» is not only a realm of sleep and dreams, but also deals with the wide awake concentration of the meditating and creating conscience when inspired by its inner lamps, darkness and dawns. The pieces of music gathered in this album are some of the many rooms in this infinite mental house.
«Scansion» is a ritual of rising light, a call to the horizon and a celebration of this world’s enigma.
«La Seu», inspired by the cathedral of Palma de Majorque, enhances this spiritual dimension. In the huge mysterious stone vessel, a music of ceremony intertwines with the acoustic presence of the invisible, and dissolves in it, as if the cathedral’s roof slowly opened on a deep mystic night sparkling with stars.
«Kozan-Ji» refers to a mountain buddhist temple of the district of Kyoto. Its solitude and serenity, expressed by an almost monophonic horizontal line, leads us to pure quietness through a central and symbolic fight for deliverance.
«From The Realm Of Morpheus» is dedicated to the eponymous novel of the American writer Steven Millhauser. It is a journey in the underground world of mysteries, nightmares, haunting memories, whispering intimate ghosts, and imagination, everyone holds in his mind.
«Chora» ends this visit in the secret house of soul, with a thanksgiving music offered to the daylight and the beauty of this unbelievable mysterious world. The title of this piece hides a double meaning by its reference to the Greek word «khora» (space), and its allusion to the French words «choral» (a religious kind of music, often for voices) and «chorale» (a choir). It is indeed an ode of joy leading to a final poem.»
Marc-Henri Arfeux, 16 January 2010.
Artwork by Marc-Henri Arfeux.
Tracklisting:
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Scansion (09:36)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – La Seu (18:16)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Kozan-Ji (07:54)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – From The Realm Of Morpheus (16:48)
- Marc-Henri Arfeux – Chora (09:16)
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Cat.# … DNA 65
Release Date … 20.10.2009
Genre … Abstract, Noise, Ambient
Type … FLAC Lossless
«…24-bit coconuts and 32-bit pineapples. A new knowledge recognition is discrete. New one or nothing. The zero or the one.
Neuron/axon entity raised in metal box. Views modelling with sounds of images. But all the same, organic envelope with some speaking/thinking device is just an cyberorganic attachment to computer…»
In this abstract noise/ambient album Russian noise project Drugcomputer explores how they see the progressive process of society cybernation, how human individuals depend on it and which consequences are behind this process.
Uncommon for Russian digital noise sound rarefaction and smoothness as well as balance and absolute inhumanity in concept distinguish this work.
Artworks for the release are made by Vitaly Maklakov.
Tracklisting:
- Drugcomputer – Document 01 (04:14)
- Drugcomputer – Document 02 (03:16)
- Drugcomputer – Document 03 (03:51)
- Drugcomputer – Document 04 (10:23)
- Drugcomputer – Document 05 (09:19)
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