Imperfection : en aucun cas au sens de ce qui serait mal réalisé ; une idée de l’imperfection considérée, plutôt, comme germe. Ce qui est là, un détail agrandi, par exemple, qui pourra (c’est une chance à saisir) devenir autre chose que ce pourquoi il semblait destiné, circuler librement, prendre une autonomie voire se propager jusqu’à nous ouvrir au monde — un au-dehors de notre attention…
…pour enfin s’échapper, précipitamment
définitivement nous quitter — non sans nous inquiéter
Et rejoindre la vigueur. »
Lionel Marchetti, in Apologie des restes.
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SYMPHONIE
Xavier Garcia : Sampler, laptop, traitements…
Lionel Marchetti : Magnétophone Revox B77 à bande magnétique (manipulé en direct), corps sonores divers, microphones, voix, percussions, flutes, synthé Monotron…
Enregistrement en studio à Sathonnay camp
le 25 janvier 2022
Composer and improviser, he's interested into both things as creating music in studio and playing live on stage.
He has composed nearly 30 electronic pieces in INA GRM (Paris), GMVL (Lyon), or "at home".
Since 1987, he's a member of the "ARFI" (Association looking for an imaginary folklore) : he plays sampler and electronic devices in ARFI 's groups as "L'Effet Vapeur"," 32 Janvier","Duo Recio-Garcia", "La Marmite Infernale", "La Grande Illusion", "Potemkine"," Villerd/Ayler quartet", "Lighthouse", "Bobines Mélodies", "Old, Blind & deaf ", "Virtuel Remix"...
He plays also in solo and leads some different projects as "Virtuel Meeting", "Radiorama", "Reel Meeting".
He worked with stage directors as Denis Guénoun, Jean Yves Picq, Dominique Lardenois, Elisabeth Macocco, Jean Paul Delore..., art designers (Philippe Mouillon), movie directors , vidéo artists, 3D movie directors (Claude-Pierre Chavanon, Françoise Petiot, Lorenzo Recio, Fabrice Fouquet), choreographers (Stéphanie Aubin, Ulises Alvarez, Julyen Hamilton), joglers (Jérôme Thomas), and some other musicians and composers (Eric Brochard, Chris Cutler, Brian Eno, Heiner Goebbels, Gianni Gebbia, Alexandre Meyer, ONJ Franck Tortiller, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Hasse Poulsen, Carlo Rizzo, Yves Robert, Guillaume Roy, Norbert Stein …)
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Lionel Marchetti is a French composer of concrete music
an improviser (electronics, various analogic systems with modified speakers, REVOX reel-to-reel recorder…)
as well as a visual-sound artist, a writer and a poet
Whether his music is composed or improvised
the body has an important role (Lionel Marchetti danced with the university company Relyanse between 1986 and 1991)
To define his music, one can borrow Kenneth White’s saying :
« Concrete or abstract ?
I like abstraction where a memory of substance remains, concrete refined on the frontiers of emptiness. »
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So interesting that Callahan's lyrics + Chauveau's vocal strongly resembles David Sylvian's style. I knew of Mathieu & Sylvian's collaboration but wasn't aware of this release and from the get go I am very pleased. How did I miss this? Especially considering I listened to Chauveau a lot in the early 00s. Wonders never cease. This album is wonderful. Anthony Childs