Playtime, by Nicolas Tourney

Playtime

by Nicolas Tourney

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ajkaufmann Wonderful work by one of the most talented French contemporary artists I know of. This is a beautiful mind journey. Highly recommended! Favorite track: 10. High Rise.

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1.	01. One Day, One Life 05:11	buy track
2.	02. In Between 05:46	buy track
3.	03. Sleeping Thing 03:28	buy track
4.	04. Under your Shoes 05:52	buy track
5.	05. Isness 03:18	buy track
6.	06. Slower and Slower 04:45	buy track
7.	07. Cosmos Climbing 04:08	buy track
8.	08. Beyond Time 07:18	buy track
9.	09. Longing for Home 07:48	buy track
10.	10. High Rise 13:08	buy track
11.	11. Brothers 05:21	buy track
12.	12. Triangulation 03:06	buy track
13.	13. Edge of Silence 13:38	buy track

about

Nicolas Tourney (born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, in 1982) is an experimental musician, multimedia artist and manager of the label Snow in Water Records.

His electronic works concern perception and act of listening, with the use of various strings, drones and noise-making devices.

Playtime sounds as a collection of landscapes made of microtonal visions, where acoustic phenomena and memory topography shape the listener's perception of music and noise. The tracks presents tones stretched to the point of highlighting microscopic events: the listener is led to witness the moment, to see these intervals between two visions, to inhabit these spaces made of pulsed waves.

Attention and vigilance are placed at the center of the reception of these works, where the interrelation with the listener reveals narrative processes from which emerges a horizon of expectation specific to time.

A work centered on the experience of listening in which memory is revealed as an invisible matter made up of particles of which we are barely aware and yet entirely captivated by this absence. We can speak of a search for a minimalism beyond minimalism: the pure perception of intervals here invites us to cross appearances, and draws the outlines of an idiom that questions the boundaries of the audible.

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released April 30, 2022

Nicolas Tourney:
1/8 Violin, Viola, Cello, Bowed Piano, Field Recordings, Pure Data System.

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