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this edition of framework:afield, entitled travelog to asia, has been produced in france by emmanuel mieville. you can find the album version here: https://sublimeretreat.bandcamp.com/album/travelog-to-asia. producer’s notes:
This «carnet de voyage sonore», sonic diary in English, is more than a documentary outcome of my numerous travels in Asia.
It’s a heartfelt project yielded by my trips who always merge personal events, encounters, desire to discover asian countries with artistic endeavours, ie concerts, recordings. The countries recorded here are: China, Malaysia, and Taiwan. The biggest part of the sounds are from Chengdu, China in 3 of the 4 tracks. They are recorded in Buddhist temples in town, and on famous mountains around the city, with nature wildlife, insects – and also Buddhist and Taoist temples. The sounds recorded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are from a huge rock mountain with excavation inside where Hinduist Indian people pray: Batucave.
The field recording are for me a base, to compose with electronic tools, as I am a «musique concrète» composer, or electroacoustic composer. I used a tool that is very fascinating for me: granular synthesis. Other sources includes bass clarinet and percussion.
Thank you Sun Wei, musician from Chengdu, China without whom this album wouldn’t be possible. Taras for his praise of my music and releasing Travelogue to Asia. Hong Yi for the cover photo (from Henan, China).
Emmanuel Mieville
Paris-born composer Emmanuel Mieville studied sound engineering in a film school and musique concrète at the GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) with Philippe Mion and Jacques Lejeune. He has also studied ethnic instruments and played Javanese gamelan in Paris for two years.
Since his childhood, Mieville has been constantly listening to creative radio programs, something that has fueled his approach to experimental music and soundscape composition. He has produced many programs for French national radios (France-culture and France-Musique). He is a regular contributor for Framework, the field recording show Patrick McGinley produces. His interest in aural perception and memories engraved in urban and wildlife environments produces compositions where field recordings are layered, mixed and sometimes manipulated with effects. His goal is to portray a specific location, to let its blurred and sonic emotions reach the listener’s ears, to sculpt and compose the “concrete” substance of sound for the listener’s pleasure.
He has worked with Buto dancers and video artists. He improvised with fellow musicians like Eric Cordier, Guido Huebner, Benjamin Thigpen, Sun Wei, among others. His electroacoustic works have been presented in festivals by Motus and Licences-Brûlures des langues (France), Confluencias (Spain), and the Udine Composition Competition in Italy (final selection). He has performed concerts and improvised solo or with musicians in Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, France (Instants Chavirés), and Germany.He participated to the international symposium with artistic and scientific contributions :Invisible cities 2017, in Azores island, Portugal, where he gave a workshop on field recording and granulation of sounds-and closing concert of the event.He recently took part in a workshop with Chris Watson, organized by Camp in the Pyrénées mountains, on field recordings, with insight approach to his recording technology(and more recently with Francisco Lopez). He has contributed to the magnificent exhibition ”Audiosfera” in Museo Reina Sofia(Madrid),in 2021, curated by Francisco Lopez, where 700 sound artists and musicians were presented in a deep listening environment, without installations or visual works.