REGENERATION-DEGENERESCENCE (COMPILATION DOUBLE CD)


Disc 1:
                                                   
1.2     Aglaophemie/Hephaistos
                                                   1.4     Alio Die/                                                     
1.6     Aube/Reminded Elements
1.8     Pierre Bouchet/Atmosphere n.1
1.10    Brume/Resurrection
1.12    Caspar C.O.C. & Son/Regeneration 33.32.95.80
1.14    Cranioclast/N 43 Breffy Le Ramier
1.16    Crawl Unit/Response To Site (Water On Metal)
1.18    Das Synthetische Mischgewebe/Virtual Concret
1.20    Hands To/Regeneration & Decay
1.22    Hybryds/Haunted Flies The Phenix
1.24    Illusion Of Safety/Machine 101
1.26    Inanna/Son Of Bony Seeds

Total time: 71:04

Disc 2:
2.2     Kapotte Muziek/
2.4     Francisco Lopez/Implantation de 10 Machines
2.6     MaŚror Tri [...]/Terraformen 1
2.8     Daniel Menche/Room Full Of Truth
2.10    Bruno Moreigne/Hevea 2nde Generation
2.12    Ora/(mix by A. Chalk)
2.14    Small Cruel Party/La Pousiere Des Murs Detruit Le Passe
2.16    Soldnergeist/Sand und Gestein
2.18    Asmus Tietchens/Industrie Perdue
2.20    Toy Bizarre/KDI DCTB 41
2.22    John Watermann/without title
2.24    Ralf Wehowsky/Kein Schoner
2.26    Wild Shores/Le Laminoir Des Filtreuses
2.28    Achim Wollscheid/The Little Extra

Total time: 72:49

text from the booklet:
               

Regeneration - Decay

There is, in the Limoges (France) area, a number of neglected
industrial sites. If one's walking in these sites he would be able 
to experience their past activities - more or less recent; it would 
be revealed by characteristic material or by the site's layout itself.
One of these places has hold our attention: an industrial complex
of 10 hectares was created at the end of the 19th century on the
banks of a river. Its goal was to regenerate hevea's sap in order
to manufacture tires, tennis balls, soles, gloves, teats... It helped 
the just born latex civilization to grow...
This decaying factory, disused since some years, was ruined by
many fires due to the numerous flammable and polluting materials
located on site. Despite the fact that the place is disused, it has
got a strong sound identity, a rich sound spectrum.
It was very important for us to introduce this area to you.
The interest was to combine the place's discovery with the
discovery of the works of numerous artists - working with
field recordings made on specific sites. The recording of sound
atmospheres of a place could be considered as fixing a fragment
of time, space, history (Quite like a photograph).
 
Representative matters (wood, stone, rubber) of the factory were 
taken, then sent to the artists. The parcel also contained photographs 
of the place and a representative sound sample of 15 mn, a kind of sound
plotting.  This field recording was made by TOY BIZARRE in January and
February 1996 and edited by Bruno. We decided to avoid human sound sources 
in order to let the place "express itself".   With these 15 minutes of sound
and the various samples of the place, each artist was able to give its own 
sound interpretation of the place. The one and only restraints were: to use 
ONLY the sounds we gave (to do a sound regeneration) and to record a
track of 4 mn 30 maximum. All the sound treatment/composition
methods were authorized. [You can listen to the original sounds by
playing the uneven tracks.] We can draw a parallel between the rubber 
regeneration (past activity of the factory) and the regeneration of the
factory's actual sound (the result of the decay of the place); that's the 
core of this project.  This parallel also allows us to apprehend the sensibilities, 
the place's visions of each artist - because they all worked on the same
 sound basis.

   


pressed were:  1000 copies


Released by: Cynistrose