movere | estonia by jez riley french

a residency at Moks in rural Estonia during spring 2009 came at a time where my thoughts about improvising with field recordings and methods of composition where in flux. they always are of course, but it’s fair to say that during 2009 my work was moving in a series of different directions.


. the simplicity and clarity of placing unprocessed single recordings within durational frames
. the continuing power of hidden sonic elements to create their own compositions
. the energy of textural intuitive playing . the quietude of audible silence
. the stillness of movement contained with photography, for scores and more


some recordings, like those in my ‘instamatic’ series, are immediate and work as documents of listening. others take time and drift in and out of ones view. it is some of these later recordings that form the basis of this new release. they have taken time to appear, time to ‘fit’ and time to be fully formed.

motet: from the latin movere, ("to move"), describing the movement of different voices against one another

movere (estonia) begins a new series of works, centered around the word ‘movere’, that focus on ways that field recordings, including those of in-situ responses, act as choral musics - voices of places, objects and actions working with and against one another towards a, still intuitive, compositional line.

please listen via headphones or conventional speakers (computer speakers will not handle some of the content or allow it to be audible)

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