François Bayle ‎– Erosphère [LP] (1982, INA-GRM)

“Concrete art” means a representation formed of synthetic intuitions of real things, built through the order and connection that the human intellect abstracts from reality. This album reaches perfectly this vision, proposing, in a "concrete" key, a dark image, mechanized at all, of a normal day in the industrialized city through the eyes of a workman, whose decline shines in every vision. This representation of human life’s mechanization is built, as you can listen from the first time, by descriptions (the titles are helpful) made through the movement and the stasis of the workman (look at the titles of every movements for a complete comprehension of this pass; i.e. “climat”, “transit”, “paysage”, etc.), formed by three mains intuitions that perfectly work (sight to the ground, sight to the sky, and the parallel inside sight and outside sight), for the representation of this demise and emptying of the natural being of man. Metallic sounds are everywhere, and all is enmeshed in a sort of ghostly movement in which the mind of man is totally passive and vacant. The name "Erosphère" represents the object of this mechanization, it is ambivalent, because it could be a term that represents the affective sphere of man, or a variation of atmosphere; both the interpretations are meaningful, because this industrial decadence seems to be In the man and Out of him at the same time. All tends to a particular anguish, to a limbic sight of everything: out of the factory noise ("La Fin Du Bruit") there’s the noise and the acrid placidity of eros, of love ("Eros Bleu" and "Eros Noir") in which the man is totally inert and apathic, and, in the end, the meaninglessness of the sky overflown by birds and his hollow movements ("Toupie Dans Le Ciel"). A great “anthropological” masterwork, no other words. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

 

 

Label: INA-GRM ‎– 9108 BA 

Series: Série Gramme 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: France 

Released: 1982 

Style: Musique Concrète, Electroacoustic, Tape Music

 

Tracklist:

A1 La Fin Du Bruit 26:00 

A2 Eros Bleu 4:50 

B1 Toupie Dans Le Ciel 22:30 

B2 Eros Noir 2:45 

 

Notes:

Recorded live during the world premiere at "Grand auditorium de la Maison de Radio France", January 21, 1980 (Paris, France). 

The versions pressed on the record are shortened versions due to limitation format. 

"La fin du bruit" composed 1978-79. 

"Toupie dans le ciel" composed 1979. 

"Eros bleu" & "Eros noir" composed 1980. 

 

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