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Pascal Battus
Simbol / L'Unique Trait D' Pinceau

Album MY 2011 on Herbal International label
Electronic and Classical (Noise, Abstract, Free Improvisation, Experimental)

"Simbol is a composition realised with recordings of cymbals, using specific techniques which enable me to sustain the sound and allow pure frequencies selected from the cymbals' upper partials to emerge. The pieces on L’unique trait de pinceau are close in spirit to improvisation, recordings often made at home in the heat of discovery, with no particular project in mind. Instant writings, unrefined yet complete and more or less unadulterated. Simbol and L'Unique Trait de Pinceau differ at both the formal and conceptual level - though chance plays an important role in both - but are in the same heuristic vein regarding the notion of sounding gesture and the question of the instrument. A whole host of tools, détournés, taken apart or extended, pushed to their limits, their identity as instruments no longer clear. Operational chains often present themselves in the act of playing, which, by dint of their complex synergy and the innumerable parameters involved, provide a margin of indeterminacy sufficiently wide to cause the excessive and the delightful unforeseen. Gesture before it becomes action is an opening onto the moment and its potential, furthermore, by not working with the same tools, stable and controlled, I'm forced to find and reinvent gestures I can use, which inevitably lead to accidents and events that take me by surprise." - Pascal Battus [liner Notes] Simbol [Disc 1] played, recorded, assembled and mastered between November 2008 and June 2009. L’Unique Trait d’ Pinceau [Disc 2] recorded and mastered between December 2007 and September 2009. Special thanks to Frederic Blondy, Edward Perraud , Les Instants Chavirés. Packaged in a six-panel card stock sleeve.

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