'French music, art, and publishing imprint Shelter Press release another chapter of its on-going documentation of the work of Gisele Vienne. The Pyre: Versions Distilled To Stereo is the score composed and recorded by KTL (Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg) for the dance piece "The Pyre", written and directed by Gisele Vienne. The music created by KTL incorporates invisible and absent elements -- ghosts, one might say. It proceeds from simulated diegetic sounds (which are part of the action) interwoven with real sounds -- a musical creation that makes up an extra-diegetic sound score. This composition dizzyingly sculpts the space on stage and generates an impression of great spatial depth, which activates light-sculptures that in turn evoke the illusion of a tunnel, whose depth also results in a play of reflections. Through these different media, the aim is to develop and shatter -- without looking to resolve -- the exceptional intensity that can arise from the dialectical tension between presence and absence, as well as from the characters that are seeking flight. The music, originally performed on a multi-channel spatialized soundsystem has been distilled to this stereo version for home use, half-speed mastered and cut by Matt Colton. This record announces -- and is one chapter -- in the forthcoming release of the first monograph dedicated to the work of French choreographer Gisele Vienne and documented by French photographer Estelle Hanania. This book -- is one of Shelter Press' most ambitious to date, catalog number 100 -- will be released in Spring 2019. Text and voice by Dennis Cooper. Photographs by Estelle Hanania; Design by Bartolome Sanson. Printed innersleeves; Includes download card; First edition of 700 on clear green wax.'
Tracklist
A1 Escalade
A2 MadHIT
A3 Glass X
B1 HIT
B2 SuperMellow
Credits
Design ? Bartolome Sanson
Edited By ? KTL
Engineer [Live Sound Engineer For This Stems] ? Gerard d'Elia
Mastered By, Lacquer Cut By ? Matt Colton
Mixed By ? Randall Dunn
Narrator [Narration] ? Dennis Cooper
Photography By [Photographs] ? Estelle Hanania
Programmed By [Live Multichannel SPAT Programming] ? Manuel Poletti
Score ? Peter Rehberg, Stephen O'Malley
Notes
Score created for Gisele Vienne's spectacle "The Pyre" (2012).
Multichannel spatialisation performance and edit distilled
to this stereo version for home use.
Initial seed recording at IRCAM, Paris, 2012.
Live stems recorded at Dansen Hus, Stockholm, 2013.
Overdubs at Fennesz Studio, Wien, 2014.
Edited at Twisted, Wien, 2015-2016.
Mixed at Avast, Seattle, 2017.
Mastered and cut at Alchemy, London, 2017.
Thanks to Gisele Vienne, Isabelle Piechaczyk, Christian
Fennesz & the SP folks for putting up with our back and forth.
For more informations about "The Pyre" see:
www.g-v.fr/en/shows/the-pyre/
Edition of 700 copies on clear green wax. Printed artwork on innersleeve with matt varnish and outersleeve with aqueous UV finish.
