Entre Vifs ‎"Ontologie" cd
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Entre  Vifs  offers  us  with  “Ontology”  a
selection  of  extracts  from  their  best  recent
sessions.
Each  of  these  excerpts  has  been  cautiously
positioned  by  the  authors,  so  that  they
appear  like  bruitist  pieces,  composed  with
care,  even  though  all  of  these  pieces  are
played  live.  Each  time,  it  is  a  symphony
of  noises  extremely  varied  in  intensity  and
frequency  where  one  can  distinguish,  with
precision, the sound detached from its origi-
nal source. Entre Vifs’ noise generators are
delicate and relatively small in size, but the
sounds  they  produce  through  mechanical
means are captured by electric guitar pick-
ups  and  piezoelectric  cells,  then  sent  to  a
battery  of amplifiers  and homemade effect
processors.  The  sound  passages  suddenly
arise from very orderly silences. The sound
is extremely massive, however it is not only a
question of volume but a stereophonic depth
effect  where  sonic  masses  seem  to  thicken
and  change  continuously.  Furthermore,  we
sometimes  hear  a  residual  soundwave  that
could be due to the complexity of the mate-
rial  and  the  large  number  of  “noisers”,  in
particular at the beginning of some pieces,
as  if  the  duo  began  its  sessions  in  unison,
that  is,  exactly  at  the  same  time.  Entre  Vifs
takes us directly from the microcosm of the
air  movement  to  the  macrocosm  of  their
organic  bruitism,  which  is  not  unrelated  to
the title of this album. Faced with the mate-
riality  of  the  sound  of  these  extracts  where
each  piece  is  rendered  with  great  sonic
precision and where the sound of the “nois-
ers”  is  dotted  with  plays  in  unison  as  if
the  machines  began  to  shout  at  the  same
time,  we  cannot  help  but  think  of  Arseny
Avraamov’s  “Symphony  of  Factory  Sirens”,
which in 1922 practiced the art of noises in
its  mechanical  version  using  among  other
things  the  foghorns  of  the  whole  Caspian
Fleet.  The  fact  is  that  we  cannot  define  the
sensations  of  power  produced  by  these
extracts  in  terms  pleasing  to  music-loving
people. They are soundscapes entangled as
if  we  had  traveled  quickly  from  the  fury  of
the  volcano  to  the  most  industrious  human
concentration through an avalanche at high
altitude. The power of chaos is nothing more
natural than what nature can produce when
it  speaks  to  us.  However,  it  is  important  to
understand that the administration of chaos
by Entre Vifs doesn’t care to fuss over deco-
rative  effects,  and  that  rather  than  tickling
politely  or  subversively  our  eardrums,  EV
opens the doors of raw material with the joy
of children who blow their balloon near our
sleeping ears. With this album, we can physic
ally touch the creative process of Entre Vifs,
from the sometimes absurd idea of building
an  instrument  from  objects  not  intended  to
produce sounds, on to the labor of practic-
ing  this  instrument  long  enough  to  improve
it, finally to the joy of freeing the action with
these tools at first glance recalcitrant.
From  the  smallest  of  emergence,  that  is  to
say the random and stubborn idea that we
discover by pure sequence of circumstances,
Entre  Vifs  makes  us  hear  the  most  massive
by  pushing  the  doors  of  the  materiality  of
chaos-noise,  screened  through  the  creative
human industry in its most persistent form.