Cellule 75 is performed by Chris Brown: piano, and William Winant: percussion; is a wonderfully percussive and aggressive soundscape for piano, percussion and magnetic tape. Filled with pockets of sound found both naturaly (magnetic tape) and produced "musically". Densly layered rhythms shift back and forth between aggressive, stacatto piano; percussive pounding (at times melodic) and more passive natural sounds, I find it difficult to decifer which element is providing the melody and which is providing the rhythm, perhaps all and none simultaniously. I think there is a simple beauty to be found here, hidden somewhere within the deceptive layers of dense sound at once both organic and mechanized at the same time.
Place De Abbesses is "for magnetic tape". Balancing the aggression of cellule 75 "Place De Abbesses" is the more passive of the two. heavy manipulation of the original magnetic tape rusults in a wonderfuly playful music. I find sections of it to be reminiscent of the DOORS and then there are those mysterious haunted voices floating around in my head.
beautiful.
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