Ondureñas by Frédéric Nogray

In darkness, with the shadows of the forest, bite of the plant is the tear. Intimate inner worlds and the surrounding materiality dance in unison. They snake through realities at the speed of blood. Blood is the vine. Vine bites the flesh and atomic particles flow. Pulses emerge within this motionless journey. They give life to it. They are its spark and the vehicle. By inversion of scales they also are the outcome. Sound, sounds from the many layers of the thickness of reality form a new acoustic landscape. In its turn, this soundscape spreads around, following and creating waves. However these nascent waves are here since ever, hidden in the folds of time. Light gets ready for the new day to come.
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C’est dans l’obscurité, dans le ventre de la forêt, que la morsure de la plante se fait faille. Les mondes intimes et la matérialité environnante dansent un unisson. Ils serpentent au travers des réalités au rythme du sang, de ce sang qui s’est fait liane, de cette liane qui mord la chair pour en faire jaillir les particules atomiques. Les pulses accompagnent cet immobile voyage. Elles le provoquent, en sont l’étincelle et le véhicule. Par inversion d’échelle, elles en sont aussi les résultantes. Le son, les sons présents dans... afficher plus
crédits
paru le 24 septembre 2018

LOCATION : Punta Izopo’s mangrove forest (Punta Bujaja),
Pico Bonito rainforest (Pico Bonitissimo), both located near the North coast of Honduras, August 2012.

All sounds from nature were field recorded by Frédéric Nogray.
Added material is made of feedback, electronic, and acoustic sine waves from crystal singing bowls.
Edition, composition and mastering by Frédéric Nogray
in Paris at Studio No*Mad from 2014 to 2018.

Beside being a creator of electronic, field recording and electro-acoustic musics, Frédéric Nogray adopted an instrumental approach to his practice with crystal singing bowls.

Créateur de musiques électroniques, électro-acoustiques et à base de field recordings, Frédéric Nogray adopte une approche plus instrumentale de la pratique de la musique avec les bols chantants en cristal.

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