VARIOUS | AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
2 x CD | INFREQUENCY 005 | Edition of 500 | Duration 1hr 37min
Nine internationally acclaimed sound artists create new compositions based on the earliest known recording of the human voice.
The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune”.
The two CD compilation is a conceptual extension of breathing life back into this document through modern technology; deciphering a voice that was etched into a thin layer of oil lamp smoke, and featuring a diverse group of international contemporary composers, creating new works from this ten second piece of history.
Additional credits: Our sincere thanks to historians David Giovannoni & Patrick Feaster for their assistance in this project. The Édouard-Léon Scott recording is licensed by Firstsounds.org
CD1
STEVE RODEN - AUCLA IRDE LALU NE
LIONEL MARCHETTI & YÔKO HIGASHI - A SHORT STORY
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - DARK SIDE OF THE LUNE
LANCE OLSEN - THE CREATURE THAT DRANK SOUND
STEPHEN VITIELLO & MOLLY BERG - CLAIRE SONG SUNG
CHRISTOPHE CHARLES - BREATHE
CD2
JAMIE DROUIN - SOOT AND PAPER
BERNHARD GUNTER - LES VOIX DU PASSE / CHANTENT L'AVENIR / CLAIR DE LUNE
YANN NOVAK - TIME FORGOT
DIGITAL RELEASE
VARIOUS | AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (digital)
MP3 | INFREQUENCY D001 | Duration 55min
To expand upon our 2xCD compilation, an open call was made for artists to submit their own interpretations of the 1860 recording by Édouard-Léon Scott. This digital-only release from INFREQUENCY collects together nine exceptional submissions as high quality MP3s.
PHILIPPE JELLI
JIMMY BEHAN
VENUS VULTURE
THOMAS ANFIELD & DAVID BIRCHAM
RICHARD LAINHART
CIMARRON CORPÉ
SHIN ICHIRO A
ROB THEAKSTON
SIGHUP
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VARIOUS | AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE2 x CD | INFREQUENCY 005 | Edition of 500 | Duration 1hr 37min
Nine internationally acclaimed sound artists create new compositions based on the earliest known recording of the human voice.
The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune”.
The two CD compilation is a conceptual extension of breathing life back into this document through modern technology; deciphering a voice that was etched into a thin layer of oil lamp smoke, and featuring a diverse group of international contemporary composers, creating new works from this ten second piece of history.
Additional credits: Our sincere thanks to historians David Giovannoni & Patrick Feaster for their assistance in this project. The Édouard-Léon Scott recording is licensed by Firstsounds.org
CD1
STEVE RODEN - AUCLA IRDE LALU NE
LIONEL MARCHETTI & YÔKO HIGASHI - A SHORT STORY
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - DARK SIDE OF THE LUNE
LANCE OLSEN - THE CREATURE THAT DRANK SOUND
STEPHEN VITIELLO & MOLLY BERG - CLAIRE SONG SUNG
CHRISTOPHE CHARLES - BREATHE
CD2
JAMIE DROUIN - SOOT AND PAPER
BERNHARD GUNTER - LES VOIX DU PASSE / CHANTENT L'AVENIR / CLAIR DE LUNE
YANN NOVAK - TIME FORGOT
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DIGITAL RELEASE
VARIOUS | AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (digital)
MP3 | INFREQUENCY D001 | Duration 55min
To expand upon our 2xCD compilation, an open call was made for artists to submit their own interpretations of the 1860 recording by Édouard-Léon Scott. This digital-only release from INFREQUENCY collects together nine exceptional submissions as high quality MP3s.
PHILIPPE JELLI
JIMMY BEHAN
VENUS VULTURE
THOMAS ANFIELD & DAVID BIRCHAM
RICHARD LAINHART
CIMARRON CORPÉ
SHIN ICHIRO A
ROB THEAKSTON
SIGHUP