Musique De Courts Métrages, Music of Patrick Bokanowski’s Short Films
A stunning, comprehensive 50 year overview of Michèle Bokanowski’s dreamlike electro-acoustic soundtracks for the acclaimed films of her husband, Patrick Bokanowski, including synth input by Éliane Radigue - huge recommendation if yr into Delia Derbyshire, Annea Lockwood, Mica Levi and Éliane Radigue.
Student of Éliane Radigue and Pierre Schaeffer since 1970, Michèle Bokanowski has been subject of renewed interest in her work in recent years thanks to key retrospectives, ‘La Plage’ (Canti Magnetici, 2019), and ‘Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires’ (Recollection GRM, 2021), which have revealed her approach to sound synthesis and arrangement as truly outstanding in her field.
Notably including synth input by Éliane Radigue, this set contains the aforementioned works which were recently reissued on vinyl, plus eight others realised between 1972-2019; spanning 90 minutes of remarkably variegated, poetically atmospheric content ranging from grim musique concrète to arcane ambient that vividly portrays her personalised sense of proprioception and temporality.
Far from stuffy or academic, there’s a mesmerising, lush intuition at work, playing to a brief which places Bokanowski’s classical education and technical research at the service of incredible flights of the imagination. It’s comparable to the hallucinatory phenomena explored by Annea Lockwood as much as Delia Derbyshire’s Radiophonic sci-fi scores, or in the modern day with the occult avant-classical and uncanniness of Mica Levi soundtracks.
Moving from spectral sound-staging and collage to rough-hewn elemental scapes, the compilation chronologically plots a path from 1972’s ‘La Femme Qui Se Poudre’ to the sci-fi dread of 2019’s pulsating metallic drones and strings on ‘Vers Syracuse’ with results that leave no doubt to the genius on display. It features input by Éliane Radigue on ‘Déjeuner Du Matin’ recalling her throbbing ‘Danse Des Dakinis’, and dilates preconceptions of her work with a brilliantly turn of avant-electro-jazz on ‘Au Bord Du Lac’ (1993) that gives way to magisterial sampledelic collage in ‘L’envol’ (2016) and the time-slipping strings slashes of ‘L’indomptable’ (2017) that call ti mind Werkbund via Fenn O’Berg and Mica Levi’s Under The Skin OST.
We’re bowled over by Bokanowski’s sound sensitive vision surmised here, and implore lovers of electro-acoustic/concrète music’s most romantic and transportive qualities to dive in.
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A stunning, comprehensive 50 year overview of Michèle Bokanowski’s dreamlike electro-acoustic soundtracks for the acclaimed films of her husband, Patrick Bokanowski, including synth input by Éliane Radigue - huge recommendation if yr into Delia Derbyshire, Annea Lockwood, Mica Levi and Éliane Radigue.
Student of Éliane Radigue and Pierre Schaeffer since 1970, Michèle Bokanowski has been subject of renewed interest in her work in recent years thanks to key retrospectives, ‘La Plage’ (Canti Magnetici, 2019), and ‘Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires’ (Recollection GRM, 2021), which have revealed her approach to sound synthesis and arrangement as truly outstanding in her field.
Notably including synth input by Éliane Radigue, this set contains the aforementioned works which were recently reissued on vinyl, plus eight others realised between 1972-2019; spanning 90 minutes of remarkably variegated, poetically atmospheric content ranging from grim musique concrète to arcane ambient that vividly portrays her personalised sense of proprioception and temporality.
Far from stuffy or academic, there’s a mesmerising, lush intuition at work, playing to a brief which places Bokanowski’s classical education and technical research at the service of incredible flights of the imagination. It’s comparable to the hallucinatory phenomena explored by Annea Lockwood as much as Delia Derbyshire’s Radiophonic sci-fi scores, or in the modern day with the occult avant-classical and uncanniness of Mica Levi soundtracks.
Moving from spectral sound-staging and collage to rough-hewn elemental scapes, the compilation chronologically plots a path from 1972’s ‘La Femme Qui Se Poudre’ to the sci-fi dread of 2019’s pulsating metallic drones and strings on ‘Vers Syracuse’ with results that leave no doubt to the genius on display. It features input by Éliane Radigue on ‘Déjeuner Du Matin’ recalling her throbbing ‘Danse Des Dakinis’, and dilates preconceptions of her work with a brilliantly turn of avant-electro-jazz on ‘Au Bord Du Lac’ (1993) that gives way to magisterial sampledelic collage in ‘L’envol’ (2016) and the time-slipping strings slashes of ‘L’indomptable’ (2017) that call ti mind Werkbund via Fenn O’Berg and Mica Levi’s Under The Skin OST.
We’re bowled over by Bokanowski’s sound sensitive vision surmised here, and implore lovers of electro-acoustic/concrète music’s most romantic and transportive qualities to dive in.
A stunning, comprehensive 50 year overview of Michèle Bokanowski’s dreamlike electro-acoustic soundtracks for the acclaimed films of her husband, Patrick Bokanowski, including synth input by Éliane Radigue - huge recommendation if yr into Delia Derbyshire, Annea Lockwood, Mica Levi and Éliane Radigue.
Student of Éliane Radigue and Pierre Schaeffer since 1970, Michèle Bokanowski has been subject of renewed interest in her work in recent years thanks to key retrospectives, ‘La Plage’ (Canti Magnetici, 2019), and ‘Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires’ (Recollection GRM, 2021), which have revealed her approach to sound synthesis and arrangement as truly outstanding in her field.
Notably including synth input by Éliane Radigue, this set contains the aforementioned works which were recently reissued on vinyl, plus eight others realised between 1972-2019; spanning 90 minutes of remarkably variegated, poetically atmospheric content ranging from grim musique concrète to arcane ambient that vividly portrays her personalised sense of proprioception and temporality.
Far from stuffy or academic, there’s a mesmerising, lush intuition at work, playing to a brief which places Bokanowski’s classical education and technical research at the service of incredible flights of the imagination. It’s comparable to the hallucinatory phenomena explored by Annea Lockwood as much as Delia Derbyshire’s Radiophonic sci-fi scores, or in the modern day with the occult avant-classical and uncanniness of Mica Levi soundtracks.
Moving from spectral sound-staging and collage to rough-hewn elemental scapes, the compilation chronologically plots a path from 1972’s ‘La Femme Qui Se Poudre’ to the sci-fi dread of 2019’s pulsating metallic drones and strings on ‘Vers Syracuse’ with results that leave no doubt to the genius on display. It features input by Éliane Radigue on ‘Déjeuner Du Matin’ recalling her throbbing ‘Danse Des Dakinis’, and dilates preconceptions of her work with a brilliantly turn of avant-electro-jazz on ‘Au Bord Du Lac’ (1993) that gives way to magisterial sampledelic collage in ‘L’envol’ (2016) and the time-slipping strings slashes of ‘L’indomptable’ (2017) that call ti mind Werkbund via Fenn O’Berg and Mica Levi’s Under The Skin OST.
We’re bowled over by Bokanowski’s sound sensitive vision surmised here, and implore lovers of electro-acoustic/concrète music’s most romantic and transportive qualities to dive in.
A stunning, comprehensive 50 year overview of Michèle Bokanowski’s dreamlike electro-acoustic soundtracks for the acclaimed films of her husband, Patrick Bokanowski, including synth input by Éliane Radigue - huge recommendation if yr into Delia Derbyshire, Annea Lockwood, Mica Levi and Éliane Radigue.
Student of Éliane Radigue and Pierre Schaeffer since 1970, Michèle Bokanowski has been subject of renewed interest in her work in recent years thanks to key retrospectives, ‘La Plage’ (Canti Magnetici, 2019), and ‘Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires’ (Recollection GRM, 2021), which have revealed her approach to sound synthesis and arrangement as truly outstanding in her field.
Notably including synth input by Éliane Radigue, this set contains the aforementioned works which were recently reissued on vinyl, plus eight others realised between 1972-2019; spanning 90 minutes of remarkably variegated, poetically atmospheric content ranging from grim musique concrète to arcane ambient that vividly portrays her personalised sense of proprioception and temporality.
Far from stuffy or academic, there’s a mesmerising, lush intuition at work, playing to a brief which places Bokanowski’s classical education and technical research at the service of incredible flights of the imagination. It’s comparable to the hallucinatory phenomena explored by Annea Lockwood as much as Delia Derbyshire’s Radiophonic sci-fi scores, or in the modern day with the occult avant-classical and uncanniness of Mica Levi soundtracks.
Moving from spectral sound-staging and collage to rough-hewn elemental scapes, the compilation chronologically plots a path from 1972’s ‘La Femme Qui Se Poudre’ to the sci-fi dread of 2019’s pulsating metallic drones and strings on ‘Vers Syracuse’ with results that leave no doubt to the genius on display. It features input by Éliane Radigue on ‘Déjeuner Du Matin’ recalling her throbbing ‘Danse Des Dakinis’, and dilates preconceptions of her work with a brilliantly turn of avant-electro-jazz on ‘Au Bord Du Lac’ (1993) that gives way to magisterial sampledelic collage in ‘L’envol’ (2016) and the time-slipping strings slashes of ‘L’indomptable’ (2017) that call ti mind Werkbund via Fenn O’Berg and Mica Levi’s Under The Skin OST.
We’re bowled over by Bokanowski’s sound sensitive vision surmised here, and implore lovers of electro-acoustic/concrète music’s most romantic and transportive qualities to dive in.
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A stunning, comprehensive 50 year overview of Michèle Bokanowski’s dreamlike electro-acoustic soundtracks for the acclaimed films of her husband, Patrick Bokanowski, including synth input by Éliane Radigue - huge recommendation if yr into Delia Derbyshire, Annea Lockwood, Mica Levi and Éliane Radigue.
Student of Éliane Radigue and Pierre Schaeffer since 1970, Michèle Bokanowski has been subject of renewed interest in her work in recent years thanks to key retrospectives, ‘La Plage’ (Canti Magnetici, 2019), and ‘Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires’ (Recollection GRM, 2021), which have revealed her approach to sound synthesis and arrangement as truly outstanding in her field.
Notably including synth input by Éliane Radigue, this set contains the aforementioned works which were recently reissued on vinyl, plus eight others realised between 1972-2019; spanning 90 minutes of remarkably variegated, poetically atmospheric content ranging from grim musique concrète to arcane ambient that vividly portrays her personalised sense of proprioception and temporality.
Far from stuffy or academic, there’s a mesmerising, lush intuition at work, playing to a brief which places Bokanowski’s classical education and technical research at the service of incredible flights of the imagination. It’s comparable to the hallucinatory phenomena explored by Annea Lockwood as much as Delia Derbyshire’s Radiophonic sci-fi scores, or in the modern day with the occult avant-classical and uncanniness of Mica Levi soundtracks.
Moving from spectral sound-staging and collage to rough-hewn elemental scapes, the compilation chronologically plots a path from 1972’s ‘La Femme Qui Se Poudre’ to the sci-fi dread of 2019’s pulsating metallic drones and strings on ‘Vers Syracuse’ with results that leave no doubt to the genius on display. It features input by Éliane Radigue on ‘Déjeuner Du Matin’ recalling her throbbing ‘Danse Des Dakinis’, and dilates preconceptions of her work with a brilliantly turn of avant-electro-jazz on ‘Au Bord Du Lac’ (1993) that gives way to magisterial sampledelic collage in ‘L’envol’ (2016) and the time-slipping strings slashes of ‘L’indomptable’ (2017) that call ti mind Werkbund via Fenn O’Berg and Mica Levi’s Under The Skin OST.
We’re bowled over by Bokanowski’s sound sensitive vision surmised here, and implore lovers of electro-acoustic/concrète music’s most romantic and transportive qualities to dive in.