The French Fibrr Records don’t release much, but when they do, it scares the shit out of your speakers. So if you like noise to listen to and experiments to think about on a Meta-level, you must check them out at some point. Before Me is the latest release by Radio Noise Collective, which is the moniker of Julien Ottavi, who is one of the members of the Apo33 sound activist collective. This release with the title “Expanded Stereo” focuses on the radio as an instrument, and he does an excellent job at it.
Two tracks with a total playing time of an hour can be found here, and both have their very own implementation of what is done with the source material. “Accelerum Megahertz” has moments where actual broadcasts form the basics of the track; A collection of fragments of tunes and words, in different styles and languages, in combination with the radio noise we all appreciate (editors note: If you don’t like radio noise you probably already stopped reading, if not, remember the moment the first time you listened to a detuned radio to listen what was in between the stations? I think I was about 12 and played with an antique tube radio, and it was hypnotizing to hear those flows …). The promo sheet describes it as ‘the rich sound of this transmitter, capable of speaking all languages, playing all types of music, and which therefore represents an inexhaustible source of sounds and information’. How beautiful.
The second track, “Circuit Krusher”, focuses less on the incomprehensibility of sounds from a human perspective but focuses strongly on the noise in between. Because more harsh frequencies are found in these sub-station bands, the track is a bit noisier, and it guided the performer into a more erratic composition; More sudden breaks, faster knob twisting, and maybe more editing afterwards. Please remember that this is a guess: It is not mentioned if it’s a one-take / no overdubs or if this results from manipulating loads of field recordings into two coherent compositions. So: IF this is a manipulation of recordings with the radio as a sound source: Brilliant, but … If it’s a one-take: It’s a fucking miracle.
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