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Imploding Stars

by Hervé Perez

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1.
deconstruct variable 08:26
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2.
hear my brain atoning 02:24
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3.
répétez après moi 06:34
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4.
secrets whispered sometimes spread 05:50
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5.
waiting for space to contract 06:34
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6.
imploding stars 08:39
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7.
peculiar particles 04:49
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8.
fire in the hole 06:05
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9.
waiting for space to expand 06:37
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10.
landscape in the mist 07:43
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11.
shipping news 06:00
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12.
just waiting 03:24
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13.
variable construction 05:22
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Imploding Stars is a series of improvisations on soprano saxophone with live processing, using a range of plug-ins to manipulate the sound of the saxophone, cut fragments and explode them into nebulae of sounds.

The work on the saxophone is mostly extended techniques, sounds peripheral to the instrument; and although some notes can be heard at times, most of the noises you’ll hear from the saxophone is stripped down to the basis of breath and some overtones.

This essential material of breath becomes metaphorical for the most essential material that exists; and ensues a series of pieces with a common theme around space, the universe. So as my first solo CD, the process of recording this becomes an act of creation with the breath as its beginning.

Out of emptiness, vibrations. Then particles of sounds are created and the rest is history. The album takes you through world systems and different universes, some more or less populated and dense, some very minimal. Each track has a different approach and treatment of the sax, and I hope you’ll find that is a sonic treat with surprising variations along the way.

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This album was first released by Focused Silence in 2019 as focused0063

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released May 3, 2019

hervé perez:
soprano saxophone
live processing
sound editing, design and master

improvisations recorded live and produced at nexttime studios
+ artwork design
by hervé perez

©hervé perez 2011

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nexTTime production studios releases the work of sound artist, composer and improviser Hervé Perez in association with the label Discus music.

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