Label: Mondes Harmoniques
Catalog#: MH1
Format: CD, Album
Country: France
Released: 1995
DISCOGS OFFICIAL
-Fleurs De Lumière
1 Appel 8:22
2 Tournesols 8:26
3 Surakarta 7:49
-Sumer
4 Langues De Feu 2:48
5 Je Me Souviens D'Une Source 10:50
6 Aya 11:55
7 Our-Shanabi 1:26
8 Hexagrammes 5:02
" I discovered these very particular waveforms from the beginning of my disk experimentations. Their sonorities, both complex and transparent, are among the oddest, reminding those of inharmonic tones or hisses. Their audition is often accompanied by very powerful psychic effects, the ear recognizing precise textures, paradoxically without being able to give them any determinated fundamental pitches. This comes from the fact that graphically, and by analogy with the fractal images, these waves are generated by laws of geometrical developpment, putting in action the same organizing principles whatever the scale they are being observed at. The synthesis, on a disk, of a white noise, sets a very interesting mathematical problem, which can't be resolved by shapes thrown in a hazardous way, neither by other aleatory parameters, which would only produce a buzz, while a white noise is the undifferenciated mixture of all frequencies. Fractal waveforms are up to this date what I found the most successful for a white noise imitation. In this CD are explored three of these fractal waveforms, with their related intonations : the "Clar" fractal waveform, and its first developpments, in "Hexagrammes" (track 8) ; the "Phi" fractal waveform, starting point of "Fleurs de lumière" (tracks 1-2-3) ; and the "Mohajira" fractal waveform, at the basis of "Sumer" (tracks 4-5-6-7)."
- Fractal waveforms (excerpt of the "Lumières audibles" booklet)
Selected discography:
‘Dedicace‘ LP w/ Sugar Blue, Larry Corryell, Didier Malherbe,Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Martin St-Pierre, etc. (Tin Pan Alley, 1979)
Alexandro Jodorowski’s movie ‘Tusk‘ original soundtrack, 1980.
‘Musiques De L’eau‘, 1983 cassette of aquaphonic music.
‘Lumières Audibles‘, CD, 1996
Contributes to ‘Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones‘,
the legendary Bart Hopkin compilation CD, 1996.
‘Noces Harmoniques‘, CD 2001.
via Continuo's weblog
[related links]
Lumières Audibles de Jacques Dudon
Photosonic disk : interactions between graphic research and gestural controls
