The source material for this piece was recorded in a cargo elevator, and book transportation by automatic transport in the library where I work. Other sounds included are cinema projectors and filtered drones.
Emmanuel Mieville is Paris born composer who studied in a cinema school in the sound engineer section, and learned musique concrète at the GRM. His approach to experimental music and soundscape composition was fuelled by constant listening of creative radio programs since his childhood. He realised many radio shows for french national broadcasting (France-culture and France-Musiques), for example a piece for shakuhachi, voice and electronics, «Mono no aware». He is a contributor and composer for Framework's field recordings inspiring program, produced by Patrick McGinley.
He played ethnic instruments such as Javanese gamelan for two years in Paris.
His concern for aural perception, and memories engraved in urban and wildlife environments, using field recordings, yields compositions where soundfield materials are layered, mixed and sometimes transformed by effects (such as granular synthesis).The portrayal of a specific location, with its erratic sonic emotions, dynamic events reaching the ears, is what he aims for, interpreting and composing the «concrete» substance to convey it to the listener.
He had collaborations with Butoh dancers,video artists and improvises with fellow musicians, such as Eric Cordier, Guido Huebner, Benjamin Thigpen, Heesok Yu, among others. His electroacoustic pieces have been played in festivals by Motus and Licences-Brulures des langues (France), in Spain (Confluencias), Italy (finalist of the Udine international composition competition). He performed concerts, and improvised with musicians in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Germany. He is also a performer of other's music: K.H. Stockhausen, with the CLSI, a innovative laptop group. He has released music on labels such as Tibprod (with Tøre H.Boe), XingWu, Lona records, Baskaru, Obs, Cronica electronica. The next release will be a full length album of drones and dense field textures, on Baskaru.
www.soundcloud/emmanuel-mieville