Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.
By capturing the subtle vibration of the moving train, these drawings resemble a seismography. As
Jean-Luc Guionnet writes in the inner booklet, they reveal less an intention and more the incalculable nature of the present conditions, a duration more porous than the train schedules, a gesture that obstinately persists without a head in these drawings without designs.
French sound artist, improviser, and composer Pascal Battus develops a practice of sound that is more attentive to the sonic gesture, to listening, and to the situation that determines them, rather than to a defined instrument: the guitar pick-up (a guitar microphone without a guitar), rotating surfaces, the "environed" guitar (an electric guitar on a table + contact microphone + various objects + electronics), percussion (amplified or non-amplified objects)… He has performed in Europe, the United States of America, Canada, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, both solo and more frequently with other musicians. He often collaborates with dancers, visual performers (video, light, sculpture…). He designs Sound Massages and creates sound installations. His records are released by Potlatch,
Akousis Records, Corpus Hermeticum, Inexhaustible Editions, Another Timbre, Cathnor Recordings, Organized Music From Thessaloniki, Herbal International…
