Lionel Marchetti offers a highly personal, artist-to-artist reading of one of
Pierre Henry's landmark works, a mysterious and improbable monolith in his repertoire, through which he attempts to grasp all the poetic issues at stake in the art of musique concrète, and to identify the specificities of the genre.
Lionel Marchetti (born 1967 in Marseille) is a composer of musique concrète—his compositions are often described as a true cinema for the ear—as well as an improviser (electronics, various analogic systems with modified speakers, REVOX reel-to-reel recorder…) and a poet. He also writes essays on the art of musique concrète from the perspective of a practicing artist. To sum up his work in a single phrase, he likes to quote Kenneth White: "Concrete or abstract? I love the abstract where a trace of substance remains, the concrete that refines itself at the borders of emptiness."
