{"id":3909,"date":"2012-04-02T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2012-04-07T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T00:31:37","slug":"review-valence-line-2012-spiritual-archives-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; Valence (LINE) &#8211; 2012 &#8211; Spiritual Archives &#8211; FR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/line_054.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3771 alignnone\" title=\"LINE054_jobin_\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/line_054.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/line_054.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/line_054.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valence on LINE\u00a0 054 \u2013 2012<\/p>\n<p>Canadian artist, celebrated sound sculptor, works released (under the moniker &#8220;i8u&#8221;) on leading labels of the genre such as and\/OAR, ATAK, Contour Editions, Dragon&#8217;s Eye Recordings, Non Visual Objects, Room40 and many others.<\/p>\n<p>And as if that weren&#8217;t enough, France Jobin also excels in the audio-visual field: performances and video installations at noteworthy festivals (Mutek, Victoriaville, Send + Receive, Club Transmediale, Immersound etc.) and important art venues (Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, Mus\u00e9e national des beaux-arts du Qu\u00e9bec etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Her recent audio release, &#8220;Surface Tension&#8221; on Murmur Records, must necessarily be included among the best albums of the past year. The latest one, published first under her real name and out in February on L-ne, is titled &#8220;Valence&#8221;: sounds with references to the world of chemistry and perceptible departure from those compositional schemes that we got used to.<\/p>\n<p>A gleaming gem, substance radiating sweetness and light, three long pieces that maintain an inimitable identity, purity, ravishing musicality.<\/p>\n<p>Rigorous aesthetic sensibility, superb skills in sound processing, minimalist imprint as common denominator of most of her work, marked by an amazing simplicity\/complexity, rich in subtle, barely audible elements: all that offers an immersive listening experience, all that makes France Jobin a unique figure in this area of exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Angelucci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valence on LINE\u00a0 054 \u2013 2012 Canadian artist, celebrated sound sculptor, works released (under the moniker &#8220;i8u&#8221;) on leading labels of the genre such as and\/OAR, ATAK, Contour Editions, Dragon&#8217;s Eye Recordings, Non Visual Objects, Room40 and many others. And as if that weren&#8217;t enough, France Jobin also excels in the audio-visual field: performances and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review &#8211; Valence (LINE) &#8211; 2012 &#8211; Spiritual Archives &#8211; FR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[320,655],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-line","tag-valence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}