Fenêtre Ovale

Between July 2020 and March 2021 I was involved in the radio show of Fenêtre Ovale, a collective from Bruxelles, on the webradio LYL. In each episode, we introduced a subject which put in the front the relations between sound and the living things from the most general point of view. The show is having a break for now. The show is in french language only.

You can find all the episodes here and below, all my subjects, bibliographies and playlists for the episodes I was involved in.

Episode #00 – 23.07.20

Subject : Feedback
Bibliography
  • Aufermann, K. (2005). Feedback and music: you provide the noise, the order comes by itself. Kybernetes, 34(3/4), 490–496.
  • Lessour, Théo. (2015). Chaos-phonies : Du jazz à la noise, le sacre du chaos. Ollendorf & Desseins.
  • Saladin, M. (2017). Electroacoustic Feedback and the Emergence of Sound Installation: Remarks on a line of flight in the live electronic music by Alvin Lucier and Max Neuhaus. Organised Sound, 22(02), 268–275.
  • Sanfilippo, D., & Valle, A. (2013). Feedback Systems: An Analytical Framework. Computer Music Journal, 37(2), 12–27.
  • Wilson, D. R. (2017). Failed Histories of Electronic Music. Organised Sound, 22(02), 150–160.
Playlist
  • Variation for DX9 – Malcolm Riddoch
  • Fluidité et mobilité d’un larsen – Pierre Henry
  • Electronic Music for Piano – John Cage (version de Augustino Di Scipio)
  • Pea Soup To Go (mix) – Nicolas Collins
  • One Hour as Peyote – Michael Prime
  • No Ideas but in Things (DVD extract) – Viola Rusche & Hauke Harder
  • Bird And a Person Dyning – Alvin Lucier
  • Times Square (Charles Eppley recording) – Max Neuhaus
  • Omnht – Eliane Radigue
  • Pendulum Music – Steve Reich
  • nimb #6 – Toshimaru Nakamura
  • Sauterelles Criquets Pays Bourbonnais Août 2019 – Julien Ortuno
  • Crickets At Night (Clean sound) – Defelozedd94
  • SummerInsectChorus – kvgarlic
  • Applause Crowd Theater – Jedo
  • Calligraphy – Tomoko Sauvage

Episode #02 – 02.12.20

Subject : The spectral space-time of hauntologic music
Bibliography
  • Aspe, B. (2018). Les fibres du temps. Editions Nous, Antiphilosophique collection.
  • Davis, C. (2005). Hauntology, spectres and phantoms. French Studies, 59(3), 373-379.
  • Fisher, M. (2012). What Is Hauntology? Film Quarterly, 66(1), 16-24.
  • Fischer, B. (2020). Belbury Poly, Jim Jupp and Ghost Box Records. The Haunted Generation. https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2020/08/07/belbury-poly-jim-jupp-and-ghost-box-records/
  • Laclau, E. (1995). The Time Is out of Joint. Diacritics, 25(2), 86-96.
  • Morin, E. (2014). Introduction à la pensée complexe. Editions Points.
  • Roy, E. (2014). Displacing the Past. Mediated Nostalgia and Recorded Sound. Volume!, 11(1), 145-158.
  • Touboul, H. (1995). Le fantôme de la liberté. L’≪Hantologie≫ de Jacques Derrida, Modern & Contemporary France, 3:1, 78-81.
Playlist
  • Ursula Bogner – Modes (Recordings 1969-1988 – Faitiche – 2008)
  • Wrong Water – Kombinat (Dozen – Muscut – 2018)
  • The Caretaker – *A Last Glimpse Of The Land Being Lost Forever *(Patience (After Sebald) – History – Always Favours The Winners – 2012)
  • Belbury Poly – ffarrisees (The Gone Away – Ghost Box – 2020)
  • Boards Of Canada – Corsair (Geogaddi – Warp – 2002)
  • The Automatics Group – Swedish House Mafia/PJ feat Velvet/Roll Deep/Paul Van Dyk/Deepest Blue/Supermode (Summer Mix – Entr’acte – 2011)
  • Jürgen Müller – Vast Worlds Beneath (Science of the Sea – Digitalis – 2011)
  • Emeralds – It Doesn’t Arrive (Does It Look Like I’m Here? – Editions Mego – 2010)
  • Bernard Parmegiani – L’Instant Mobile (L’Oeuvre Musicale – INA-GRM – 2008)
  • Horla – The Coconut Fall (Fantômes – Le Cabanon – 2019)
  • London Contemporary Orchestra – d|p 1.1 (William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops – 2002 (Live recording 12-08-12 – Queen Elizabeth Hall))

Episode #04 – 24.03.21

Subject : Chaos theories through Iannis Xenakis’ Gendyn and Tom Mudd’s Gutter Synthesis
Bibliography
  • Gribbin, J. R. (2005). Deep Simplicity : Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life. Penguin Books.
  • Hoffmann, Peter. (2009). Music Out of Nothing ? A Rigorous Approach to Algorithmic Composition by Iannis Xenakis. https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/2589
  • Luque, S. (2009). The Stochastic Synthesis of Iannis Xenakis. Leonardo Music Journal, 19, 77-84.
  • Mudd, Tom. (2017). Nonlinear Dynamics in Musical Interactions. Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/52231/
  • Mudd, Tom. (2019). Between Chaotic Synthesis and Physical Modelling : Instrumentalising with Gutter Synthesis. 7th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Milan, Italie. https://2019.xcoax.org/pdf/xCoAx2019-Mudd.pdf
  • Serra, M. (1993). Stochastic Composition and Stochastic Timbre: GENDY3 by Iannis Xenakis. Perspectives of New Music, 31(1), 236-257. doi:10.2307/833052
  • Solomos, Makis. (2013). Iannis Xenakis trois composantes de l’univers xenakien. Dans Théories de la composition musicale au XXe siècle (Vol. 2, p. 1057‑1080). Symétrie.
Playlist
  • Iannis Xenakis – Gendy3 (1994 – Neuma Records)
  • Iannis Xenakis – S.709 (1997 – Electronic Music Foundation)
  • Antoine Hubineau – Gendyn Max object examples (port by Stephen Lumenta) (2021)
  • Tom Mudd – Gutter Synthesis 1 (2018 – Entr’acte)
  • Tom Mudd – Gutter Organ 2 (2018 – Entr’acte)
  • Tom Mudd – Gutter Organ 3 (2018 – Entr’acte)
  • Tom Mudd – Gutter Organ 1 (2018 – Entr’acte)

The Gutter Synthesis software is available here .