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« Dans le ciel d'été
un nuage s'efface
sans trop y penser »
Le livre des vingt & un poèmes

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MICRO-CLIMAT

Micro-climat is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90


Musical composition, sound design and production, audio recordings in 1989/90 at the CFMI studios in Lyon (Lumière University, Lyon 2)

Premiered at Cycle Acousmatique/Maison de Radio France, INA grm (Paris) — 1991

Special thanks to Xavier Garcia


“I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the 80s as, whilst composing Micro-climat, I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear field for the mind.
The sky and its forces: our ally.
A model for a natural music which, although fixed, as in musique concrète (a rule of the genre), moreover on a recording tape, will remain charged with such a poetic quality that (isn't it its role or rather its reality?) it will ensure a perpetual renewal for our senses, so as to reach another idea of the world, far more open and richer than what we could have imagined.”
Lionel Marchetti, 2011


"Lionel Marchetti is a major figure of the “third generation” of concrète musicians, a term he values. Listening to these works, imbued with poetry and traversed by micro-narratives, one can indeed retrieve the original concrète spirit, the one that draws from the sonic world, with ears wide open, so as to extract a fertile, rich and multiple substance then shaped and conveyed towards a formal and musical abstraction. Lionel Marchetti has mastered this process, but his real distinctive feature is a truly unique talent for setting climates (as one sets traps) and keeping us on constant alert. The two pieces in this record perfectly illustrate the entrancing dimension of Lionel Marchetti's music, whose charm leads us, through each successive listening, to become voluntary captives so as to better liberate ourselves."
François Bonnet, Paris, 2020


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MICRO-CLIMAT

Musique concrète de Lionel Marchetti
pour une écoute acousmatique d’une durée de 21’33’’

À Nathalie Veuillet

Micro-climat est le premier mouvement du cycle Sirrus ( Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composé en 1989/90

Composition musicale, conception et réalisation sonore, tournages sonores, avec l’instrumentarium du CFMI de Lyon : Lionel Marchetti – 1989/1990 au studio du CFMI de Lyon (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Création publique : Cycle Acousmatique/Maison de Radio France, INA-GRM (Paris) – 1991

Création radiophonique sur France Musiques en 1992

Remerciements tout particuliers à Xavier Garcia

Une première édition CD de Sirrus ( Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) à été réalisée en 2001 chez Auscultare reserach/ground Fault recordings, label dirigée par Randy H.Y.Yau – aux USA et augmentée d’un texte original d’Olivier Capparos

Copyright : Lionel Marchetti/SACEM
Photographie : L.M. - 2011

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À propos de Micro-climat :

« Je me demande si ma fascination pour les nuages (sans en faire une fixation cependant) ne naît pas à la fin des années 80, à l’époque de la composition de Micro-climat, lorsque je pérégrinais régulièrement entre le massif du Vercors et les hauts plateaux des Monts du Forez et que je découvrais, de mes yeux, avec mon corps, ma respiration, l’observation active et la marche, que les formes naturelles lorsqu’elles sont sans cesse changeante et pourtant gonflées d’une unité de matière – ici : l’eau – ouvrent à un souffle profond, fondamental, déploient un champ libre pour l’esprit.
Car il existe une densité pleine, plus que vivace, sans cesse grandissante, œuvrant en nous comme une passation de force à observer les grands mouvements de l’atmosphère qui, si l’on s’y accorde, semblent nous dire : Tu es cela.
Complexité ouvragée et béante de l’atmosphère — tout un programme de noms : Cumulus ; Altostratus ; Sirrus ; Nuages lenticulaires ; Cumulo-nimbus… pour, en réponse, une composition ramifiée œuvrant à de telles correspondances.
Un filet de vitesses croisées, de températures et d’altitudes.
Une beauté des formes à couper le souffle, jouant depuis toujours de la lumière solaire avec en germe, continûment, la fougue primordiale et dangereuse de l’éclair.
Le ciel et ses forces : notre allié.
Plus que cela : un modèle pour une musique naturelle qui, bien qu’elle soit fixée dans le cas de la musique concrète (voici une des lois du genre) et ce, sur la pellicule enregistreuse, restera chargée d’une telle poétique qui elle – n’est-ce pas là son rôle ou plutôt sa réalité ? – assurera une relance perpétuelle pour nos sens, afin d’approcher une autre idée du monde, plus ouverte et plus riche encore que ce que nous aurions osé imaginer. »
Lionel Marchetti/2011


“I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the 80s as, whilst composing Micro-climat, I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear field for the mind.
The sky and its forces: our ally.
A model for a natural music which, although fixed, as in musique concrète (a rule of the genre), moreover on a recording tape, will remain charged with such a poetic quality that (isn't it its role or rather its reality?) it will ensure a perpetual renewal for our senses, so as to reach another idea of the world, far more open and richer than what we could have imagined.”
Lionel Marchetti, 2011

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"Lionel Marchetti is a major figure of the “third generation” of concrète musicians, a term he values. Listening to these works, imbued with poetry and traversed by micro-narratives, one can indeed retrieve the original concrète spirit, the one that draws from the sonic world, with ears wide open, so as to extract a fertile, rich and multiple substance then shaped and conveyed towards a formal and musical abstraction. Lionel Marchetti has mastered this process, but his real distinctive feature is a truly unique talent for setting climates (as one sets traps) and keeping us on constant alert. The two pieces in this record perfectly illustrate the entrancing dimension of Lionel Marchetti's music, whose charm leads us, through each successive listening, to become voluntary captives so as to better liberate ourselves."
François Bonnet, Paris, 2020




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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. »
[free translation]


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NB : for a complete bio & diverses web links
have a look here : Archives radiophoniques…
(below, in my bandcamp discography)