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Nicolas Montgermont
Radioscapes

Album FR 2017 on Art Kill Art label
Electronic (Experimental, Rhythmic Noise, Noise)

Radioscapes is a record that invites the listener to discover the electromagnetic landscapes that surround us. The two sides of the vinyl propose to listen and to observe two very different radio contexts: the Paris ring road (Side A) and an isolated farm in the French countryside (Side B). In each location, the whole radio spectrum was methodically recorded during a period of two weeks and then transcribed into a single audio track. On each side, an image representing the levels of the received frequencies is printed under the groove in synchronization with the sound. Radioscapes is an exploration of existing artificial and natural signals. As the record rotates, the frequencies follow one another, as on a radio where the button would be slowly turned: one successively travels across Wi-Fi waves, mobile phones, hydrogen lines observed in astronomy, satellites exchanges, military and aeronautical communications, FM and AM radios, and thunderstorm residues ... The record is accompanied by a silk-screened booklet that brings together a text by astrophysicist Eric Chassefière detailing the physical properties of radio waves and their implementation in radio astronomy and the protocol used to carry out the recording of waves. A - Recorded in Uchronies, Malakoff, France in August 2015 Electromagnetic context: . Dense urban area . 300 m from the Paris ring . 4 km from the Eiffel tower emitter B - Recorded in Le Lieu Dit, Besseuil, France in April 2015. Electromagnetic context: . Isolated farm in rural area . 500 m from a high speed train track . 10 km from an aeronautical reporting point

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	Nicolas Montgermont , concept by, recorded by, programmed by, album by
	Flo Kaufmann , *1973 CH lacquer cut by
	Eric Chassefière text by
	Harold Schellinx g, b, translated by

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