Bernard Fort / FRACTALS / Brain Fever
フランスのフィールド・レコーディング名人として当店ではアイテムを紹介してきたBernard Fort（ベルナール・フォル）による、もう一つの顔であるミュージック・コンクレート／エレクトロ・アコースティック作品が、Editions MegoとINA-GRMで共同運営されるレーベルRecollection GRMから45回転仕様でアナログLPリリース!!! 小宇宙をテーマとしたハイパー・サイキック音響「FRACTALS」、南インドの森林の鳥の声を素材にした静寂かつトリッキーな未発表曲音源「Brain Fever」と、その筋（☆!?）のファンはマストな内容です！ FRACTALS (1981), 21’26 Composed at the GMVL from December 1979 to September 1981, this work was commissioned by Fnac. Fractals are mathematical oddities that, when crossing our path, turn the smallest island into an immensity to be explored. FRACTALS is a series of short studies, all based on the same sound source. Seeking in the sound and its very logic a proposal upon which a construction is elaborated, each Fractal remains open and is a mere fragment of itself. FRACTALS, music pieces sculpted in four dimensions, are vast microcosms that can only be inhabited by the mind. Each Fractal can be approached from several angles, far, near, etc. Some can be listened to at different speeds, forwards or backwards. FRACTALS: amorphous and endless music pieces whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. FRACTALS are available in stereo (34'32), in 8 tracks for concerts, and as "spare parts" (separate mixing tracks open to new combinations). Brain Fever (2017), 18'00 Wherever you may be in the forest of South India, the Brain Fever bird, together with the Seven Sisters, literally gets into your head. Whether it be early morning, daytime, or nighttime, amidst the stridulations of insects, its song utterly reflects Indian life: sonorous, noisy, insistent, dense, overcrowded, mobile, swarming, frantic, overheated, deprived of rest and sleep. Brain Fever echoes sonic images caught in the Aurovillian forest, near Pondicherry, and rich fragments of improvisations made in Lyon on analog sound synthesis or feedback devices, the kind I used to do in the first GMVL studios. Brain Fever is dedicated to Sofia Jannok, a musician and sami singer. （Recollection GRM） Face 1 FRACTALS (1981), 21'26 Fractal I, 3'15 Fractal V, 5'11 Fractal XI, 3'39 Fractal XVII, 6'05 Fractal III, 3'07 Face 2 Brain Fever (2017), 18'00 Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, November 2019 Translations: Valerie Vivancos Layout: Stephen O'Malley Photos: Daniel Lepoutre, Francesco Giorni, Christian Ganet Mecanisme d'un paysage urbain, by Paul Klee Coordination GRM: Francois Bonnet, Jules Negrier Executive Production: Peter Rehberg Format：LP Label：RECOLLECTION GRM / EDITIONS Mego (AUT)
