MIEVILLE , CORDIER : Dispositif - Canal Saint-Martin

'“Xing-Wu’s 3rd release, “Dispositif: Canal Saint-Martin”, has well-celebrated French sound artist-composer, Eric Cordier in collaboration with fellow countryman Emmanuel Mieville. The frontipiece of this release is the primary track itself, which was performed live and composed in realtime during a concert at the Centre d’animation Jemmapes, Paris. Marshalling well over 30 microphones as a sonic capture and repository of this Parisian cultural site, Cordier and Mieville transform the space and its environs into an organic vestibule of aurality and sounds. But perhaps more importantly and exactly, both these artisans of sound were able to produce and invoke an event for listening – to draw us closer to the act of listening and also, to portray listening as it relates to everything else around,culturally and experientially. Dispositif constitutes part of, and continues in, a long line of on-site realisations of what Cordier conceptually regards as a vernacular device – a term which was mainly, and first, used to describe his long-standing but now defunct project, with Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet, called Afflux. Briefly, a vernacular device intersects and traverses methodologies and approaches commonly associated with the fields of tape music-electroacoustic, improvisation and field recording or phonography. In more concrete terms, it is the transposition of the intricacies and complexities of Studio work onto a site specific context in order to unearth and shape the sonic character of the contextual site itself. Aside from the primary track of the live performance, two more tracks complete this release – “dispositions en rotonde” and “le centre d’animation” which are “remixes” of the primary piece constructed respectively by Mieville and Cordier.” YYP'



1 Dispositif: Canal Saint-Martin 37:28
2 Dispositions En Rotonde (Remix Mieville) 12:28
Remix – Mieville
3 Le Centre D'Animation (Remix Cordier) 14:12
Remix – Cordier

Credits
Effects [Tc Electronic Gforce], Loops [Digitech 2101] – Eric Cordier
Synthesizer [Persephone], Computer [Laptop] – Emmanuel Mieville

Notes
Released in a standard Digipak.
From the sleeve:
"This piece was composed in real time during a concert that took place on May 27, 2005 at the Centre d'animation Jemmapes which is a cultural place of the Paris City Hall. [.…]
The event was based on the idea of a vernacular device. About thirty microphones were deployed around the concert hall with the intention to capture the various activities of the place. The sounds were mixed and treated in real time with the exception of a few sound fields from Normandy (by Emmanuel Mieville) and various sound objects triggered and mixed from the laptop (also by Mievielle)."