shell I by Florence Cats
On her usual basis, Florence uses theremin as her main instrument but here, the range of different means and techniques are far beyond it.
The cassette released today is a document - where is the definitive version, where is the rehearsal? Will we ever know? Is it really that important here?
Florence sings child-like songs to the field recordings, moves on to more electronic aspects of her work with ease. All and everything has its own dynamics as if in a dream, as if through ESP experience, definitely in a wholesome package of a slow-paced experiment but not too hasty, not too overdone, a natural rhythm for what is a compound and a modal that works through itself and for itself.
It's a beautiful album where the imperative is plain in sight: Stop and listen.
In many other ways - it is a subtle and fragile study of things that are just round the corner and the observations of daily life events are turned into something you wouldn't be able to expect.
With a firm background in composition and using different tools, you can be sure of something both eerily existential, interesting on the structural side of things but foremostly something both deeply intimate and poetic. A wonder within a constellation of other wonders.
Florence Cats (Be, 1985) is an experimental artist working somewhere between music, sound, visual art and acupuncture. In 2023, she was selected as an emerging sound artist by Stuk, Q-O2 and Musica. Her work is a needle or antenna, inspired by the vibrations of sound and light in nature, travel, telepathy and dreams. She plays the theremin in experimental ways, interacting with her body, voice, water, radio and various.
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