{"id":6249,"date":"2020-11-08T02:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T02:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2020-11-08T02:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T02:46:01","slug":"death-is-perfection-everything-else-is-relative-on-editions-mego-touching-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"Death is perfection, everything else is relative on Editions Mego – Touching Extremes – Massimo Ricci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Touching Extremes<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editions Mego<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subsequent to a series of personal losses, France Jobin \u2013 Montreal\u2019s minimalist composer of deserved renown \u2013 was forced to come to terms with something that haunts the existence of countless beings. As pathetic as this usually appears (courtesy of the average human\u2019s shallowness), she attempted a rational collocation of chaos in her life, at the same time recognizing death as the ultimate symbol of a not better specified \u201cperfection\u201d. The introductory notes quote an excerpt from David Deutsch\u2019s book The Fabric Of Reality<\/em>, grounded<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on the theory of phantom photons. Now, when it comes to photons this writer\u2019s cynical experience translates as follows: interesting stuff on paper, yet inevitably destined to become, in most cases, food for pseudo-intellectual exhibition of the self (though I\u2019m convinced that Jobin doesn\u2019t belong to that category). After all, everyone is entitled to clutching at the straws of unearthly conjectures to put a measure of order in their own mind. Particularly when the grim reaper comes around waving us hello under various guises, which \u2013 in this day and age \u2013 happens quite frequently, including the cerebral demise of selected wannabe \u201cauthorities\u201d dabbling in issues beyond their reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, besides any cognitive necessity Jobin is an expert sound assembler. The music she created for this album derives entirely from a Buchla 200 analog synthesizer, except for a shorter and less assuaging track \u2013 \u201cSoar\u201d \u2013 made with Klara Lewis and exclusively available in the digital version. The longer pieces \u201cInertia\u201d and \u201cP\u201d, however, represent everything that needs to be (un)told. There\u2019s an answer to every question, there\u2019s calmness behind any anxious doubt if only one delves in the right combination of frequencies. Jobin concocted textural trails that stay with the listener unobtrusively, typically projecting one or two suspended chords. The result amalgamates perfectly with our environment when played at moderate volume. Still, the apparent stasis is perturbed by the very pulsation that it contains. We detect imperceptible subsurface discolorations, brief dissipations of energy across the harmonic flawlessness, a few dynamic weaknesses and slight distortions in an otherwise rather narcotic flux. It\u2019s sorrow-inducing, brain-quietening, and profoundly individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Touching Extremes Editions Mego Subsequent to a series of personal losses, France Jobin \u2013 Montreal\u2019s minimalist composer of deserved renown \u2013 was forced to come to terms with something that haunts the existence of countless beings. As pathetic as this usually appears (courtesy of the average human\u2019s shallowness), she attempted a rational collocation of chaos … <\/p>\n

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