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'“The eight tracks of Musique Isotype are intended as vehicles of surprise. Occasional U-turns and abrupt changes ensure the internal dynamics of each track, favouring Surreal juxtapositions of disparate sounds. They allow amalgamated elements of wonder to emerge, like when an Exquisite Corpse drawing is unfolded.
Little interference was injected into the process. I tended to assume the role of ‘transformer’, as suggested by Marie Neurath, creating an interpretation of statistical data. My joy was in conjuring these aural transformations as a mere in-betweener, like Marie Neurath herself in the Isotype process, between theoretician Otto Neurath and graphic designer Gerd Arntz.
Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) was developed by Otto Neurath at the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna between 1925 and 1934 as a means to put statistical information into graphic form, particularly through pictorial charts, where repeated pictograms are used to indicate quantities.
Likewise, I see the repeated patterns and samples of existing sounds on Musique Isotype as a mixture of various audio strains: from the specific pace of poets reading their texts from the 1960s, to the ‘concrete’ sounds of basketball, dulcimer, Flamenco guitar, bull-roarer or bird songs, to the sounds of Armenian and Arab YouTube TV channels.”
Laurent Fairon is a French blogger and record collector based in Paris. He started making music whilst in art school and, between 1990 and 1993, published four demo albums on two French cassette labels: Nos Yeux Aveugles and Le Krab. He was then the director of the literary ’zine Le Reflet for 11 issues, until 2007, when he launched the mp3 blog Continuo’s Weblog. The latter’s purpose was to disseminate obscure records and cassettes from Fairon’s collection, helping raise awareness of overlooked releases.
Through the blog and Wikipedia articles, Fairon documented the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine and developed a partnership with UbuWeb to archive Tellus and some other valuable recordings.
He launched the on-going Continuumixes mixtapes series in 2008, one of which was performed live at Cafe OTO in London in May 2015 during a rare live appearance as DJ. Since 2011 Fairon’s been running the Continuo's Documents blog on Tumblr.
Edition of 200 copies
Mastered by Jacques Beloeil'
1. L’Inonie
2. The Elocutionist
3. Ch?ur des myopes
4. Roman a clef
5. Musique isotype
6. Reves de coumbite
7. Tippecanoe 1811
8. Dormitorium
Musique Isotype was recorded in November?
December 2015 in Paris, France.
