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Geisteswissenschaften

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Geisteswissenschaften recent

No Type | IMNT 0715 | 2007

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Geisteswissenschaften

image: A_dontigny, Chantal Dumas, David Turgeon

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Composer: A_dontigny
Performers: A_dontignyPaul DoldenDiane LabrosseJon Vaughn

• Prix Opus 2006-07: Disque de l’année — finaliste

“Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall’s fall - i.e., when damn near everything presents itself as familiar — it’s not a surprise that some of today’s most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. [...] Whatever charge of tastelessness or trademark violation may be attached to the artistic appropriation of the media environment in which we swim, the alternative — to flinch, or tiptoe away into some ivory tower of irrelevance — is far worse.” (Foster Wallace, as “plagiarized” by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence, Harper’s Magazine, February 2007)

This first solo CD by composer A_dontigny (morceaux_de_machines, Napalm Jazz, Ensemble Camp…) has been deliberately conceived to be in the margins of electroacoustic music, electronica and audio art.

Thought up as a series of short sarcastic vignettes, Geisteswissenschaften skilfully manipulates common aesthetic postures in order to create a sound mosaic where one can find hints at modern art history and philosophy. To an arsenal of cut-and-paste and cut-ups, to which we may include encoding glitches and all matter of samples and quotes, A_dontigny adds the sonic interventions of three of his usual collaborators: Paul Dolden (electric cello, guitar and bass), Diane Labrosse (sampler) et Jon Vaughn (remix).

An ode to freedom? A manifest against all dogmas? That’ll depend on the mood of the listener. In the end, Geisteswissenschaften wishes to be a celebration of independance of spirit and human intelligence, one of those rare works that continue to be nourished by great hopes.

1

Koons (2006)

3m04s
2

Pruitt-Igoe (2006)

2m05s
3

Tatline (2006)

  • Paul Dolden, cello
3m33s
4

Aufbau (2006)

  • Paul Dolden, electric guitar and cello
2m09s
5

Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (2006)

3m22s
6

Quelque chose d’informel (2006)

3m41s
7

Color Field (2006)

2m15s
8

Gutai (2006)

2m58s
9

Recollection of Similarity (2006)

3m04s
10

Begriffsschrift (2006)

  • Paul Dolden, electric guitar
4m00s
11

Crowding Into the Behavioural Sink (2006)

4m07s
12

Holzwege (2006)

1m48s
13

Turner (2006)

4m27s
14

All-Over (2006)

  • Paul Dolden, electric guitar and bass
4m16s
15

Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein (2006)

6m26s
16

Mathesis (2006)

3m41s
17

Crowding Into the Behavioural Sink (Jon Vaughn’s Rondo Mix) (2006)

  • Remix by Jon Vaughn
5m21s

total duration

60m29s

UPC / EAN 771028071524

A_dontigny: Geisteswissenschaften (CD): description

Prices are in Canadian dollars — 1.00 CA$ ~ 0.87 US$ ~ 0.62 € ~ 0.53 £ ~ 82.59 ¥ ~ 1.8 AU$ ~ 4.60 DKK ~ 5.61 NOK ~ 6.79 SEK — and include handling, shipping and applicable taxes.


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