...I just listened to his "Mantra" piece again (all of whose sounds come from a live recording of a Zamboni machine and its microtonal fluctuations) and am just amazed at this guy's work. He has another piece called "Electro-Prana" that was composed on an organ made from miscellaneous car, boat, truck, and other electric horns played in a gigantically cavernous warehouse- again, amazing. The sense of space suggested by both of these pieces is something you have to experience to understand.
Anybody else familiar with him?
Anybody else familiar with him?
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Re: Jean Francois LaPorte
Fri, March 25, 2005 - 6:01 PMsounds nifty-thanks for the heads up -
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Re: Jean Francois LaPorte
Sat, March 26, 2005 - 10:34 AMi second the thanks! what's a Zamboni machine? -
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Re: Jean Francois LaPorte
Mon, March 28, 2005 - 10:29 AMHeh... I'm glad you asked!
A Zamboni is the big machine used in ice skating rinks to smooth or 'resurface' the ice... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamboni
LaPorte gets a really broad range of textures and tonalities just by mic'ing changes, I think. The piece has a very meditative quality, listening to the various harmonics drift in and out of various combinations...
Also, a correction- the multi-electric-horn piece mentioned above is called "Dans le Ventre du Dragon"; "Electro-Prana" is another piece. You can download "Dans" at cec.concordia.ca/econtact/...orte01.mp3
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