Maps to a soundtrack - Imaginary Scores
#6 Bali Music
New chapter of Map To A Soundtrack, BALI consists of a 5-track EP (11 min), a series of screen prints, and a recomposed, screen-printed travel journal.
A poetic and meditative reflection on travel, exoticism, the Other, and elsewhere.
Five pieces as fragments of places (At the Buddhist Temple, Clouds over Mount Agung, At the Royal Pools, Galungan / Pemuteran, At the Jungle Huts), blending repetition, suspension, and atmospheric density, shaping a displaced state of attention, a temporary inadaptation to the environment, a subtle perceptual shift…
Screen prints where the jungle becomes form: layers, superimpositions, overprints, tensions.
Exoticism is no longer elsewhere, but in the gap between imagination and matter.
#5 Journal Sans Date
Musique méditative et expérimentale inspirée du Journal sans Date de Chateaubriand, extrait de son Voyage en Amérique.
C'est aussi la Bande Son du spectacle Audio et Visuel "Journal Sans Date" créé avec Simon Guiochet aux images.
Le voyage est découpé en 6 journées qui se suivent, et retracent le parcours, poétique, rêveur, sans précisions de lieu ou de date, de Chateaubriand dans le wilderness américain.
#4 Travels to Alaska / John Muir
"Out of all this cold darkness and glacial crushing...comes abounding beauty."
This is an imaginary soundtrack to the book "Travels in Alaska" by naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America, JOHN MUIR.
This book has struck me as both profound and adventurous, triggering soundscpaes and melodies...music as a travel companion to the cold wild lands of Alaska.
#3 TANGER / Paul Bowles
Whereas the tourist generally (returns) back home, the traveler, belonging no more to one place then to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. (…) the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler who compares it with others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.
Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. It was often on trips that he thought most clearly and made decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
#2 Rêveries / JJ Rousseau
Inspired by JJ Rousseau’s book, this imaginary soundtrack is a personal sonic interpretation of the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
Focused on Promenades 5 and 7, the most nature and inner looking chapters of the book, the soundtrack is a companion to walking, meditating, dreaming and spacing out. A helping hand, here to guide you as you follow the steps of Mister Jean Jacques as he strolls on a secluded island or the Alps hills and valleys.
Meditative, rocked by the slow walking pace, this piece of music was put together on an analog Fostex M80 reel to reel 8 Track, with old synths and drum machines. All flaws and parasite noises were left unharmed and unfiltered, hopefully giving it texture, sincerity and richness, as grown from the earth.
Immerse yourself. Listen to these sounds when working at home, as a podcast on your daily commute, for your morning walk, daydreaming next to the fireplace or on a front porch star gazing.
Listen. Breath. Allow your spirit to wander. Meditate. Dream.
#1 Walden / HD Thoreau
Inspired by HD Thoreau’s book, this imaginary soundtrack is a personal sonic interpretation of this ecological, metaphysical and free-thinking manifesto.
Reading the book, as I pictured myself lost in the outdoors, living in the forests of the great Northeast, in an isolated cabin, near a lake, WALDEN is the soundtrack that started playing in my head. A comforting companion to a solitary life, away from all the fuss, connected to Nature, amongst the trees and wildlife.
Fishing, seeds growing, plants blooming, trees creaking, animals leaping, birds flying, bugs harvesting, leaves rustling, the wind blowing, rain falling, snow melting, ice cracking, are all part of this OST to a movie that only exists in my (and now hopefully your) imagination.
Meditative, organic, all natural, this piece of music was put together on an analog Fostex M80 reel to reel 8 Track, on a single LPR35 tape, with all analog instruments, and found its way to an audio cassette tape. All flaws and parasite noises were left unharmed and unfiltered, hopefully giving it texture, sincerity and richness, as grown from the earth.
Immerse yourself. Listen to these sounds when working at home, as a podcast on your daily commute, for your morning run, daydreaming next to the fireplace or on a front porch star gazing.
Listen. Breath. Meditate. Dream. Allow your spirit to wander.
#0 Rocking In Steady Motion / Ile de Bréhat
"Nature meditative soundtrack to the island of Bréhat in Brittany France.