Domestic Drones – An Inverted Acousmonium

“They’re my pets. They can be heard for hours at low volume in my workshop, even when I’m not there. I call them my domestic drones and they live in the open air.” (JPRRR)

Principle of the inverted acousmonium :

When recording, I place several types of microphone in the room. Each microphone has its own listening point. I alternate the sound points while remaining permeable to ambient sounds. In this way, I create an inverted acousmonium from a simple broadcast source.

Domestic Drones series 01 was first created as part of the Fallback on air residency, TT Node, Summer 2024.

radio psg matin is a very local station that simulcasts live on p-node.org  For the past five years, the main show, named la matinale (morning show), takes place every other monday from 7 am to 9 am at a local café in le Pré-Saint-Gervais, a North-Eastern Parisian suburb. translate chain was recorded under live conditions. radiopsgmatin.org

The MiniDisc was born exactly thirty years ago, on November 1, 1992.    Abandoned in 2012, it was then officiallyreported missing in 2013.
A very short existence in the life of audio formats.This programme for the Radia network becomes the pretext to resuscitate a selection of personal recordings, amongst a hundred MiniDiscs representing several hundred hours of recordings made between 1998 and 2005 on this no less famous ATRAC format whose simple evocation will move some of you.
A (very) personal opinion:
The mini disc was THE best format of all time ! It had all the advantages of the audio cassette in re-writable digital format and instant playback, plus the possibility of editing within the support itself, to make loops without cuts, and to re-record on the spot.
A pocket studio at the height of mechanical technology. A format so bastard and born too late to survive. Neither mainstream nor professional, a consumerist marvel at the dawn of digital, so to speak, dematerialized.The quintessence of obsolescence, the last song of a materialistic sign. The MINIDISC.This radio programme brings together a hundred files from 1 sec to 4min mixing a lot of raw materials, some field-recordings many wanderings back and forth with a protools editing suite from another time and a series of minidisc’s players noise.

Yann Leguay lives and works in Brussels. He focuses on the notions of dematerialization, the use of interfaces and everything about the materiality of memory. In his sound practice he was defined as a ‘media saboteur’ by the Consumer Waste label, seeking to fold the sound materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects, videos and performances. He has presented his work in many places and         festivals all around Europe and further such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Club Transmediale, Centre Pompidou, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual.

I have no voice is a spoken word piece construite sur une indétermination de sons en chaos, phonétiquement structurés de façon à ce qu’ils forment leur propre langue parlée. La voix en outil langue, charcute cut le langage et sa parole par tranche, slices de syllabes, et hypercut.
De ritournelles en ritournelles la voix avance en deux langues et devient une langue à langage informatique, au parler algorythmique. Le rythme et la déconstruction des mots, voix hâchée et mots collés pour expérimenter la parole en la réinventant.
La voix dit qu’elle n’a pas de voix, elle est une IA, un bot, sa voix se prénomme Daniela, le féminin de Daniel dans 2001 Odyssée de l’espace de Arthur C. Clarke et Kubrick, et l’un des avatars dont Annlee parle dans Anywhere Out of the World (2000 Parreno).
Une langue frgl (franglais) ou glfr(glaisfran) ou françaisanglais ou
Frengl (frenchenglish) ou englfr (englishfrench) ou frenchenglish.
La confusion du sens dans tous les sens à mon sens un sens essentiel.

I have no voice is a spoken word piece based around an indeterminacy of sounds in chaos, phonetically structured so that they form their own spoken language. Here the voice is used a tool, it cuts into language and slices speech into syllables and hypercuts.
As the refrain develops the voice advances in two tongues and becomes a computer language, with an algorythmic diction. The rhythm and deconstruction of the cut-up fragmented voice and seeming hastily pasted together words are an experiment with speech through reinvention of the idiom.
The voice tells us she has no voice, she is AI, a bot. Her voice however has a name, Daniela, the feminine of Daniel in 2001 Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick, and one of the avatars Annlee speaks about in Anywhere Out of the World (2000 Parreno).
A language frgl (franglais) or glfr(glaisfran) or françaisanglais or
Frengl (frenchenglish) or englfr (englishfrench) or frenchenglish.
The confusion of meaning in all directions has, in my opinion, an essential meaning.

Instrumentaux: Joseph Marzolla
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