Gouffre Cristal by Benoît Lefeuvre & Maxime Mouttet

Gouffre Cristal

These improvised musical pieces were recorded live in Brittany by Maxime Mouttet and Benoît Lefeuvre.

They soundscape the fictional exploration of a chasm with crystallizing walls, remodeled by erosion through the work of salt and water over time.

This natural process has guided their musical approach, mixing field recordings and re-arranged raw sound materials to carve them as a set of unique instruments, sometimes playing as a discordant ensemble, sometimes in symbiosis.


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Momentum Series

In their artistic process, every musician experiences the instant where they successfully catch the « present moment » during a live/jam session. Sometimes, they just can’t transform this raw material in a track. The recording might be too long, too slow to evolve… And only modifiable by removing its very essence.

The Momentum Series is a space of expression for these recordings. As we think these releases don’t fit the digital listening environment (zapping, inattention…), we’ll only release them on tape.

For the third episode of the series, we decided to slightly change this format. Benoît Lefeuvre & Maxime Mouttet first recorded Gouffre Cristal as a one-hour long musical triptych. This original recording is only available on the 20 numbered tapes (coming with an A5 print of the artwork), while the digital version is a rework of each musical piece the artists managed to create.

Audio — visual record label based in Paris.

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