Phase 5, by Richard Bégin

Phase 5

by Richard Bégin

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kvirt Unique and interesting concept gets you only so far - but here, also the execution is without comparison. Album unlike any other I've listened to. I dislike unharmonious noise elements in dark ambient, but here my mind was blown how tastefully everything is paced and arranged. Phase 5 is a rare, dark treat for your psyche. Favorite track: Polarisation des électrodes.

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1.	Les conditions de l'expérience 02:17	buy track
2.	Polarisation des électrodes 05:55	buy track
3.	Figure 141 04:06	buy track
4.	10 grades sur l'horizon 07:24	buy track
5.	Allotropique 04:36	buy track
6.	Détermination des masses atomiques 07:33	buy track
7.	Figure 142 04:09	buy track
8.	Depuis un poste unique 03:24	buy track
9.	Le théorème des forces vives 05:00	buy track
10.	Nomenclature des corps 08:46	buy track

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"Phase 5" is part of a university's practice based research project whose goal is to experiment the build of a sonic environment from which emerges a feeling of destruction, loss and memory. The blends of noises, atmospheres and sound textures do not aim to evoke directly the disaster, but to express its affects, its sensations. In this perspective, each track of the album tries to turn disaster in to a sonic medium. "Phase 5" draws its inspiration from the writings of the authors and philosophers Walter Benjamin and Maurice Blanchot. Walter Benjamin conceives that all perception emerges from an environment that he calls medium. Maurice Blanchot, for his part, conceives the disaster as a thought of separation and fragmentation. Disaster as a medium turns out to be in this sense an environment in which perception arises from fragmentation. Each track of "Phase 5" offers a sonic exploration of this perception.

The project of which the album "Phase 5" is part aims to analyze the affective power of sound, and to understand how sound assemblages can produce a perception of disaster. Inspired by the sonic environments specific to post-apocalyptic cinema, "Phase 5" extends the musical research that responds to the concept of "cinema for the ear". The convergence between perception and matter, in a long final suite that concludes the album until it dissolves.

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released May 11, 2023

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Born in Quebec city, Richard Bégin is a professor of media and film studies at the University of Montreal and a researcher-creator in art and sound design. “Phase 5” is the result of his research on disaster as a medium of perception. Working as much from electronic instruments, analog sound devices and field recordings, he arranges and combines sounds in such a way as to generate affects related to memory, loss and fragmentation. Inspired by both hauntology, the post-apocalyptic imagination, noise, Frank Zappa and the smell of wet wood, his work is the sound accompaniment of Paul Valery's phrase: " the future is not what it used to be".

Music by Richard Bégin
Mastering by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst)
Published by Reverse Alignment
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