A double CD with Suite blanche, a musique concrète composition by Anouck Genthon (violin, sound recordings) and Lionel Marchetti (synthesizers, electroacoustics, sound recordings), and Angelica, a concert by the duo.
Born in France, Anouck Genthon is a violinist, improviser and ethnomusicologist based in Geneva. She anchors her work in the development of her own improvised language through the experience of sound and listening. She likes to engage in transversal forms of research forms and she plays in various contexts at the crossroads of improvised, experimental, contemporary, electroacoustic and traditional music through different projects from solo to large ensembles. Her work is published by Newwaveofjazz, Another Timbre, Confront Recordings, UNRec, Insub. Records, Le petit label, Thödol,
Gamut Edition. She is a member of @ptt collective (promotion of acoustic art in the fields of music, language and visual arts) and Insub. in Geneva. She is the author of
Tuareg Music. From political symbolism to aesthetic singularization (L'Harmattan, 2012).
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."
