HENRI CHOPIN : Les Gouffres Des Bronches Sont Des Cavernes Infinies

'Henri Chopin came to perform in Besançon in 1995 at Garage Caméléon the birthplace of Erratum Musical activities and the label. People involved were Michel Giroud (who introduced Henri Chopin to us and helped to publish “Poésie Sonore Internationale”), Joachim Montessuis, Yvan Etienne and Masahiro Handa. This place used to be a 300m2 garage where we lived, worked and organised noise performances and poetry actions from 1993 to 1998. When Henri Chopin arrived, he was 72 years old, calm and slow, and was delighted to meet a younger generation interested in sound art and electronic sound poetry experiments. He brought his tapes and we rented a powerful sound system that would be perfect to fill all of the space with his mouth noises. He then asked us to project the sound and follow his gestures concerning volumes and dynamic panning, and the resulting high pitch echos and feedback intensity along with the slowly melting speakers (audible here) gave him an incredible excitation and joy that we all could witness – and it was a contagious enthousiasm. Direct energy ! Later in 2004 Henri Chopin gave us two tapes to release, the first one was for the CD “La danse des tonneaux roulants et brisés” and the second one was “Les gouffres des bronches sont des cavernes infinies”, which was aired for the first time on France Culture radio in 2013 thanks to Thomas Baumgartner. Henri Chopin was born in 1922, this LP is echoing his 100th anniversary and celebrates the passion he channeled and transmitted to many artists along his life and beyond.'



Tracklist
A Fresques De L'Impalpable Voix 15:38
Engineer [Projection Sonore], Mixed By [Mixage], Recorded By [Enregistrement DAT] – Joachim Montessuis
B Les Gouffres Des Bronches Sont Des Cavernes Infinies 15:20

Credits
Mastered By [Mastering], Lacquer Cut By [Gravure] – Frédéric Alstadt
Photography By [Photos] – Richard Bugner

Notes
A: performance au garage Caméléon, Besançon, 03 02 1995
B: "bronches et souffles de la bouche exclusivement" 1er au 22 juin 2004
download including :
Echos de bouche - performance au garage Caméléon - Besançon - 10’26 - 03 02 1995
Conférence Henri Chopin - ERBA - Besançon -115’ - 02021995
Entretien Henri Chopin avec Michel Giroud et Joachim Montessuis - 37’23 - 04 02 1995
extraits publiés dans “Revue & Corrigée n°23”
Photos : Richard Bugner
Mastering et gravure : Frédéric Alstadt | Mont Analogue | Belgique Released by Joachim Montessuis