A Reassuring Elsewhere, Chapter 2, by Philippe Petit

A Reassuring Elsewhere, Chapter 2

by Philippe Petit

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1.	A Reassuring Elsewhere pt. 5 18:49	buy track
2.	Interlude 02:48	buy track
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Following on from the first part of his “retro-futurist” trilogy, Chapter II of “A Reassuring Elsewhere” sees Phillippe Petit continuing his journey into early electronics and stripped down classical music, with one eye on the uncanny present. What follows is a warm, angular, comforting trip through frequencies both familiar and abstract: Neoclassical dynamics meet the high modernist austerity of Schoenberg, but bathed in sunlight.

Using a prepared piano soundboard, Petit engages the instrument with a variety of objects – clothes pegs, tissues, wood, plastic, rubber and other materials to create curious cacophonies and playful interludes. Little sonic animals join the party on Part 5, along with a Nepalese bowl and an EMS Synthi A analogue synthesizer, creating a space-age Carnival of the Animals to emulate Saint-Saëns – will there be zoos on Mars?

Haunted by the ghost of communications past on “Interlude”, as old telephones ring helplessly, we slide into Part 6, where a Daxophone encounters a Buchla Easel K and Serge 73/75 analogue synthesizers and the spidery, demented insides of a piano. Mournful, elephantine sounds beam out from radio towers as something skitters across metal strings
and insects tap woodenly into the night. Part 7 turns inwards, where the soothing tones of the vibraphone mingle with a prepared piano soundboard and detuned drum punches. A groundswell of strings of all kinds, frequencies from distant realms combine to create an aquatic crescendo before everyone bounces off home.

As Petit describes his work:
“I want to sculpt movements of sound masses, muted, caressing or, with a simple stroke of a hand, turn berserk all frequencies and pitches into an electro-acoustic result… Acoustic meeting modular synthesis not knowing where one stops and the other begins in an elastic space-time where their harmonies and varied colours would join-overlap carrying the listener as if I had inflated a balloon and let it fly away suddenly… Transporting everything so that it may become one statement… Tension-relaxation, destabilizing and reassuring at the same time, kind of immersed in a dream where nothing would be where it is expected.”

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released November 17, 2023

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