Tournures Cessent / Tournures Cessent Orchestrales by JEAN-LUC GUIONNET

 

Jean-Luc Guionnet is a titan of improvised music and also anything that is built on the foundations of improvisation towards electroacoustic composition.

This cd is quite unique in many ways. 

First and foremost, it is a diary - a diary of a past year of 2015. An intimate musical entry, that happened before the pandemic, put in not really chronological order, bits and pieces that make up the picture of something quite dream-like.

The compositional tissue of this album is based on micro scale of sounds - imagine squelches, glitches, bits of audio dust that is being put together. But also the complexity of the composition being enhanced by the amount of musicians involved, at some point makes it quite a surprise entry - a change of narrative that is being used to convey something a bit more profound - the permeating question is: How to make this speck of dust: human life with all its insecurites, dangers, intimacies, nuances and details and put it into something that actually has some existential mass and weight.

Jean-Luc does it both with great attentive spirit and a master class touch - everything that is orchestrated with such amount of people involved has to be one way or another beautifully put. Also with the field recordings that lay a massive backdrop for the compositions. There is no single note here that is unnecessary - the whole listening experience is a deep plunge into a dream state - full of little bits that make you both surprised and even a bit scared - with the linearity that has so much to offer - to present... a pretty non-linear narrative. 

A deep listening for a new - to revisit past without regrets and extract the essence of it so you could enjoy it here and now.

 APO 16 | Compact disc + 24 p. booklet

Cd produced by Aposiopèse & Jean-Luc Guionnet (2024)

Liner notes by Jean-Luc Guionnet.

Translation by D.E.Lucas Dan & Marie Verry

Composed, recorded & mastered by Jean-Luc Guionnet (2016 - 2020)

Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet. Photograph by François Lagarde

In memory of François Lagarde

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released December 31, 2024

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Tournures Cessent | 29:50

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Electroacoustic composition by Jean-Luc Guionnet.

Commissioned by INA GRM for PRÉSENCES ÉLECTRONIQUE (2016).

With (in order of appearance) :

the voice of Christophe Macé,

Cyp, a melody played on piano,

the viola of Cyprien Busolini plays this melody,

some pigeons trampling nearby my place,

my voice,

dancing steps by Lotus Eddé Khouri,

some çifteli at home,

Didier : the synthetic voice, (les ordures, ...),

Des pentes aux marches by Dedalus ensemble,

some alto sax somewhere very fare,

a very remixed excerpt of « Plugged Inclinations »,

a recording of « Reciprocal Scores ».

a roaring parking.

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Tournures Cessent Orchestrales | 30:51

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Composition for orchestra by Jean-Luc Guionnet. Played by Onceim and Motus.

Commissioned by La Muse en Circuit (CNCM). Played by ONCEIM & MOTUS (2019-2020).

Recorded on the 5th of october 2021 by Olivier Lamarche & Jean-Luc Guionnet, in Théâtre de Vanves.

Onceim

Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (alto saxophone)

Prune Bécheau (violin)

Sébastien Beliah (double bass)

Cyprien Busolini (viola)

Giani Caserotto (electric guitar)

Bertrand Denzler (voice and electronic effects)

Vianney Desplantes (euphonium)

Benjamin Dousteyssier (bass saxophone)

Jean Dousteyssier (clarinet)

Benjamin Duboc (double bass)

Franz Hautzinger (trumpet)

Antonin Gerbal (percussion)

Jean-Brice Godet (tapes)

Julien Loutelier (percussion)

Jean-Sébastien Mariage (electric guitar)

Frédéric Marty (double bass)

Alexis Persigan (trombone)

Diemo Schwarz (concatenative synthesis)

Alvise Sinivia (piano)

Jean-Philippe Gross (electronics)

Clotilde Lacroix (cello)

Frédéric Blondy (conductor)

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Motus : Olivier Lamarche

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