HO by Thomas Turine

HO that’s where I have spent a few weeks walking and walking across Iceland, carrying microphones. Iceland is a volcano, the Earth is jerking out its matter and its matter is made of water, air, fire and earth. The tectonic plates are growing more dense. As we walk we come across many small geysers and fumaroles which come from the bowels of the earth.

HO is an animal documentary retrospectively investigating the disappearance of the Icelandic dinosaurs, as well as a documentary about a volcano expedition and a docu-fiction about the story of the universe and the creation of matter according to the quantum theory. It is both an electro-acoustic and radioactive acousmatic piece. Its abstract composition is quite futuristic. It almost sounds like wind in a way that we are making wind. The listener is made to get closer to his radio set, because he thinks a new pulsar interferes with the frequencies of his radio set.

We start from an extremely dense and hot area from which matter has just originated ; it’s something that we commonly call the Big Bang without really knowing what we are talking about, as if it were a white noise where everything – frequencies, am- plitudes – are in complete chaos and highly unstable. Gusts of wind. Matter tends inevitably to organize itself because it is naturally drawn to coalesce, to regroup and harmonize. This intense and strong wind gives birth to air movements. In the meantime, the small molecules travel around and collide into each other through gravity. First we see slivers, then small bubbles and finally larger elements. And here we are. The radio set has just given birth to a tini tiny geyser. It comes out of its shell and grows like a tyrannosaurus. And BAM, the matter that has been propelled by the wind has formed a meteorite that crashes to the earth. A shock wave. Radio silence. The story of the birth of matter is a story about attraction, forces, repulsion, coalescence and collisions. That’s what the sounds could convey in their abstract movement and tension. They are precious like little lizards, dangerous like a tyrannosaurus rex, despite the fact they are only recordings of water and wind. Sometimes with a touch of blue or red earth.

Cosipie is a Brussels based label and music creation studio. Cosipie loves all kind of sounds and musics.
Leaded by Thomas Turine, Cosipie produces music for Music, Live Concert, Contemporary Dance, Theater, Movie, Radio or all kinds of Art Experimentations.

Enjoy your listening !

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