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MP 044CS
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Statique is the fifth full length album on Mille Plateaux and Force Inc. labels by Automatisme, the Canadian musician and conceptual artist William Jourdain active since 2011. Jourdain met the label owner Achim Szepanski in 2019 and did an album in solo (Alter-, Mille Plateaux, 2020) plus four others in collaborations (with iadema, Beyond Humans, Stefan Paulus, and Viatorism in duo with Pheek). Automatisme now returns as a solo act on that label. The results are, on one side, an expanded vision of fast rhythmic clicks and cuts, like on his "Alter-Rate" tracks and that are entitled "Ultra-Rate" on the Statique album. On the other side, it is the multiple "Ultra-Scape" tracks that are an augmented version of the granulized ambient dub techno he developed since the beginning of the Viatorism moniker. Jourdain adds elements of chaos and perturbation into algorithmic electronic music like static electricity is the presence of a disturbing body in a circuit.
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2LP
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MP 005LP
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Alter- : A reaction to the alter modernism in sound art. Automatisme on the album: "I am inspired by how the art historian Nicolas Bourriaud defines the Altermodernism. Bourriaud understands the term 'alter' as a way to mean 'other'. The alter modernism would be another modernity that is different from the avant-garde modernism and post-modernism. More precisely, this is a new paradigm from the XXIe century with alternative ways to motivate artists to be more radical in art by traveling in the physical and digital world, by cutting the frontiers and by creating other time lines. I apply the 'alter' subject to time and to landscape and those, to the rhythmic and the ambient glitch music."
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