Langueur d'onde by Source

With its carefully carved masses of analog synths, field recording, tape loops, and no input feedback, creating a strange mix of melodic slow ambient electroacoustic music, Langueur d’onde really is about the process of exploring lost memories.

I float on top of a big mass of slowly moving liquid, like a piece of wood on the ocean, by the shore.
I feel the slow movement, back and forth, it feels almost like not moving at all but I see the changes in the scenery. Sometimes I think I recognize something, but then it all goes away, and when it comes back it has changed -or is it me that has already changed ?- because I don’t recognize it anymore.

The last three pieces were composed to accompany the video version of Lisa Gervassi’s book Mommy. ( https://www.lisagervassi.com/mommy )

This album was made using analog and digital hardware synthesizers, a mixer, some guitar pedals, a sampler, K7s, and a digital portable recorder.

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Sillon :
Two simple short melodies sequence the same synth, and as they fight for their existence in the limited voice count, they seem to also fight against some weird bursts of strange timbre modulation, making it even more unstable. This is all of a sudden swallowed by some old tape, almost erased really, to give space to more interaction with the same idea of several melodies fighting for a limited voice. I guess all ideas are at the same time old and new and we have to accept it to be able to follow them somewhere actually new to us !

Retournement temporel :
A strangely familiar loop allows us to enter a slow back and forth movement. Somewhere between a pendulum and waves reaching the shore, the movement seem to bring us old found sounds, simple melodies, simple memories wrapped up in dirt and fog.
This is an attempt at exploring a fugitive feeling from the past, trying to peel it layer by layer, looking at its fractal like figure : everything is at the same time the same and different.

Congrès de coquecigrues :
We can clearly hear a few weird birds conversing, and in the background the tension coming and going might be from their fear of waking up their huge neighbor (it might be some sort of whale ? I don’t know). Indeed it wakes up, but it is in a good mood so they all sing together ! What a relief.

Brume marine :
Staring at the sea, I can’t really see through the light fog, but it has this weird power: it lets me draw what I want in it. Each time I concentrate on a figure it disappears, until all fogs goes away with the last one.

Dialogue de sourds intérieur :
Sometimes not listening to each other makes for a weird ballet of stubborn egos, that can reveal more about the people involved than an actual attempt at a conversation, like some family diners from childhood when revisited later…

Mantra :
Those tape loops seem to want to say something, but the stuttering is hard to overcome. Language is hard, sometimes abstract sound and naive melodies are easier, so I let them come out, as to try to understand what hidden message is inside those sounds that repeat in my head.

Mommy I, II et III :
Those three parts (I, II and III) are meant as one piece, to accompany the video version of Lisa Gervassi’s book Mommy, that is a plastic experience about grief, womanhood, motherhood, and all the universal feelings one can have about what it means to be born and then try to figure out what to do with it !
Part I is about loss, part II about wandering and part III about survival.

Tracklist

1.	Sillon	10:36

2.	Retournement temporel	7:23

3.	Congrès de coquecigrues	8:09

4.	Brume marine	5:55

5.	Dialogue de sourds intérieur	7:40

6.	Mantra	6:59

7.	Mommy I - La disparition	3:56

8.	Mommy II - L'errance	6:32

9.	Mommy III - La survie	8:24

Credits

released July 1, 2022

Music : Source (Tana Barbier)
Artwork : Lisa Gervassi ( www.lisagervassi.com )

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