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L'ombre blanche

by Ludovic Medery

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about

In this work, the exploration of my sound library is central. Recordings made during my travels and walks for over 20 years. The desire was then to create compositions entirely made for and with the support of the tape recorder, the magnetic tape and the microphone. As the work of composition progresses, drifts have seen the light of day. Drifts of places, spaces and times.
The rest of the trip could be made thanks to the microphones and the different materials and objects found during these trips.
Sound bodies that I had the pleasure of vibrating to capture all their musicality.
(Ludovic Medery, 2023)

credits

released June 2, 2023

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ludovic Medery between July 2021 and January 2023
Artwork by Ludovic Medery
Thanks to Cathy, Sylvain, Xavier, Daniel, ma famille.
℗ & © 2023 zappak zappak-005

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Ludovic Medery in Belgium had been working on a creation under the theme of a possibility of a tape recorder and field recordings since around 2021. Medery had been gathering various objects such as stones and dead plants in various locations, and recorded environmental and object sounds. After this process, he made this work named "L'ombre blanche (white shadow)". It consists of four pieces, 'Le port (The port)', 'Frottements (Friction)', 'Derrière la serre (Behind the greenhouse)', and 'L’église (The church)'.
Medery did a live mixing by an improvised tape manipulation to make each material dismantle, and we can barely imagine its fragment. Behind fine sounds and tape manipulating noise moving, there are various kinds of concrete sounds such as human voices, a bell in a church, bird calls, sounds of something rubbing, and some more... As deep as listening carefully, our sense of listening is sharpened and we might not be able to stop expanding our imaginations.

ベルギーで活動するLudovic Mederyは、2021年頃からテープ・レコーダーの可能性とフィールド・レコーディングを題材とした制作に取り組んでいた。Mederyはさまざまな場所で石や枯れた植物などのオブジェクトを集め、録音をおこなっていった。そうして作り上げられた本作は[L'ombre Blanche (白い影)]と名付けられ、'Le port (港)'、'Frottements (摩擦)'、'Derrière la serre (温室のかたわらで)'、’L'église (教会)'という4つのピースから構成された。
それぞれの音源は即興的なテープ・マニピュレーションによってライブ・ミキシングされ、かろうじて原型を想像できる程度にまで解体されている。微細な物音やテープ操作によるノイズがうごめくなかその隙間に聞こえてくるのは、人の声や教会の鐘、鳥の鳴き声、なにかの擦れる音、などなど...。聴くほどに聴覚は鋭利になり、聴き手は否応なしに想像力をかき立てられることだろう。

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Luvodic Medery
The work of Ludovic Medery, Belgian sound artist, navigates between field recording, concrete music and free improvisation. Listening is central. Without it, nothing can be captured and created. In the studio, as in concert, he uses acoustic and electronic devices.
Not hesitating to mix the two in order to sublimate them and explore other sound territories. Using instruments sometimes considered obsolete, handcrafted, Ludovic Medery tends to incorporate all the sounds of the world, to design a practice of listening without prejudice and to capture what is offered to him.
ludovicmedery.bandcamp.com

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