An exciting field recording collage from the homeland of Musique Concrete. Sébastien Roux cutted and pasted field recordings from friends and himself from European towns and places.
An audible travellog composed in the vein of a photoalbum.
1 exciting field recording composition on a black 3" mini CDr with photocover. (limited edition of 100 )
Recordings were done by Sébastien Roux, Emilie Morin (Bandol) and Eddie Ladoire (Nice)
between November 2004 and September 2006 in Bandol, Berlin, Bruxelles, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Nice, Samoëns and the mountains around, Santarcangelo, Vevey, a train between Lausanne and Geneva.
„stereo rider (holidays in the sun)“ was originally a sound installation, created for ososphere festival (strasbourg, september 2006).
It is a sound collage documenting my holidays for the past three years.
All recordings were done using a binaural microphone.
During the festival, the visitor was invited to lay on a bed and listen to the piece via two loudspeakers hanging from the celling, like giant headphones.
Born in 1977, Sebastien Roux is sound artist living in Paris. Since 2003, he has recorded for the experimental electronic labels 12k and apestaartje. In 2005, he was awarded for his piece « un grand ensemble » at Muse en circuit 6th international competitions of Radio Piece.
His main collaborative projects includes Heller (with Eddie Ladoire, published by French labels n-rec and optical sound), works with 12k artist Sogar, and with Greg Davis (the duo cd called “paquet surprise” was released on carpark in October 2005).
He has released a series of sound installations called wallpaper music. This work has been shown in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Bristol. He also works at Ircam as a musical assistant. (mainly with composer Georges Aperghis).
...Sebastien Roux offers listeners one long composition culled from a sound installation, created for the ososphere festival (held in Strasbourg in September of 2006). In the best Musique Concrete tradition, he binds aural impressions from his past three vacations together, establishing a soft and simmering narrative. ...
Tobias Fischer
…Sebastian Roux is someone whom we known for his releases on 12K and Carpark and is someone who uses field recordings a lot, but usually highly micro processed. Here he presents them in a clean, direct way. One piece that is originally a sound installation and all the sounds were recorded during Roux\’s holidays in the last three years. It\’s a bit like watching someone\’s holiday snaps: you get an idea, never the real picture. Roux collages his sounds together (recordings from Bandol, Bruxelles, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Nice, Samoens and the mountains (oops, non urban) around Santarcangelo, Vevey and a train), but it hardly makes any sense to the outsider. Not really a big problem, as he creates a nice piece with all his sounds, which is best enjoyed through headphones. ...
FdW
