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Sonic Spheres [A tribute to Pol Bury]

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    As part of the events organized in La Louvière to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pol Bury (1922-2005), Transcultures (Interdisciplinary Center for Digital and Sound Cultures) commissioned several sound creators (of diverse aesthetics and adventurous practices ) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, a piece freely inspired by the work and the universe of this visionary multi-creator born in the industrial city of La Louvière (BE), who went through the great avant-gardes of the 20th century (surrealism, CoBrA, kinetic art…) without ever accept no dogma.

    In 1952, the facetious Bury had his double Ernest Pirotte write in the “Diary of a maker”; “Some days I think I am more of a musician than a visual artist”.
    Indeed, the processes and series explored by Bury in his visual work such as “Multiplans”, “Softenings”, “Cinetizations”, “Distorting Mirrors”, “Punctuations”, “Volumes”… and his praise of slow movement (“by the slowness, slyly thwarted, I could believe in the dilation of time” he wrote in 1965) evoke effects or techniques used in contemporary sound creation.

    These “Sonic Spheres” feed as much on the material and kinetic explorations as on the poetic, surreal and pataphysical explorations of this indisciplinary artist and genius inventor.
    This sonic tribute is also a way of prolonging certain flashes and recurrences of a work whose richness and arborescence we never cease to rediscover in very varied fields (sculpture, painting, engraving, writing, cinema, jewelry, etc.), with this constant of opening wide the doors of the possible / impossible and of concretizing this Bul thought "irreducible to any rational condensation" (Marcel Havrenne) which he had initiated, in the mid-1950s in a small farmhouse in a small Hainaut village renamed ironically “L'Académie de Montbliart”, with his poet-publisher friend André Balthazar.

    “The adventure that I wish would be endless, if possible, has only just begun”.

    Philippe Franck
    Transcultures, La Louvière, April 2023

    transcultures.be
    transonic.be

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    Album credits:

    Transcultures with the support of La Ville de La Louvière and La Loterie Nationale, as part of the centenary of Pol Bury and the 20th anniversary of City Sonic.

    mastering: Marc Doutrepont
    Visual background : Christophe Bailleau
    Graphism : Jean-Bernard Libert
    Special thanks: Daily-Bul & Co

    Includes unlimited streaming of Sonic Spheres [A tribute to Pol Bury] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Dans la Mogador, D'un monde (sONore) à l'autre, House 27, Sonic Spheres [A tribute to Pol Bury], Akashic Diaries, Bega [Sonic Scapes], Shooting stars can last, Spectres & Neons, and 35 more. , and , .

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1.
Todor Todoroff - Kinetic Reflections 08:19
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2.
Didié Nietzsche - Les voix A-pesanteur 06:48
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For the version fixed in the Sonic Spheres project, a few excerpts of unprocessed live vocals by Maja and Jean-Michel punctuate here and there the edited version (in collaboration with Paradise Now) of the live recording.
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Pastoral - Une pensée Bul 02:30
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Pastoral - L’image fraîche 01:28
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Pak Yan Lau - Tactile 07:00
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Pak Yan Lau: prepared grand piano, wooden sticks, magnets, tape, nylon, electric motor, e-bow and metal sponge. Recorded and mixed by Pak Yan Lau, March 2023, Brussels.
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Charo Calvo - Le Sphinx et Pol 08:35
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Alain Wergifosse - Dans une bulle de métal 07:53
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Pastoral - Avant l’heure 01:33
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Pastoral - Recommencer le maintenant 01:25
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Raymond Delepierre - Intersections 07:04
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11.
Isa*Belle + Paradise Now - Transpherical Constellations 08:26
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12.
Charlemagne Palestine + Lionel Hubert - Aa Ballekesss Soupee Pourrr Pol Bury 09:18
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As part of the events organized in La Louvière to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pol Bury (1922-2005), Transcultures (Interdisciplinary Center for Digital and Sound Cultures) commissioned several sound creators (of diverse aesthetics and adventurous practices ) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, a piece freely inspired by the work and the universe of this visionary multi-creator born in the industrial city of La Louvière (BE), who went through the great avant-gardes of the 20th century (surrealism, CoBrA, kinetic art…) without ever accept no dogma.

In 1952, the facetious Bury had his double Ernest Pirotte write in the “Diary of a maker”; “Some days I think I am more of a musician than a visual artist”.
Indeed, the processes and series explored by Bury in his visual work such as “Multiplans”, “Softenings”, “Cinetizations”, “Distorting Mirrors”, “Punctuations”, “Volumes”… and his praise of slow movement (“by the slowness, slyly thwarted, I could believe in the dilation of time” he wrote in 1965) evoke effects or techniques used in contemporary sound creation.

These “Sonic Spheres” feed as much on the material and kinetic explorations as on the poetic, surreal and pataphysical explorations of this indisciplinary artist and genius inventor.
This sonic tribute is also a way of prolonging certain flashes and recurrences of a work whose richness and arborescence we never cease to rediscover in very varied fields (sculpture, painting, engraving, writing, cinema, jewelry, etc.), with this constant of opening wide the doors of the possible / impossible and of concretizing this Bul thought "irreducible to any rational condensation" (Marcel Havrenne) which he had initiated, in the mid-1950s in a small farmhouse in a small Hainaut village renamed ironically “L'Académie de Montbliart”, with his poet-publisher friend André Balthazar.

“The adventure that I wish would be endless, if possible, has only just begun”.

Philippe Franck
Transcultures, La Louvière, April 2023

transcultures.be
transonic.be

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Jerk
Sway
Vibrate
Slide
Meander
Discard
Distend
Shake

Pol Bury, Le pouvoir érectionnel, Daily-Bul, 1974

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released July 1, 2023

Transcultures with the support of La Ville de La Louvière and La Loterie Nationale, as part of the centenary of Pol Bury and the 20th anniversary of City Sonic.

mastering: Marc Doutrepont
Visual background : Christophe Bailleau
Graphism : Jean-Bernard Libert
Special thanks: Daily-Bul & Co

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Transonic is produced by Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Center for Sound and Electronic Cultures (Artistic Director: Philippe Franck). ... more

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