Various Artists - Régénération - Dégénérescence

2 x CD
Label : Kaon, France, 1997
Limited edition of 500 copies


"There is, in the Limoges (France) area, a number of neglected industrial sites. If one's walking in these sites he would be able to experience their past activities - more or less recent ; it would be revealed by characteristic material or by the site's layout itself. One of these places has hold our attention : an industrial complex of 10 hectares was created at the end of the 19th century on the banks of a river. Its goal was to regenerate hevea's sap in order to manufacture tires, tennis balls, soles, gloves, teats... It helped the just born latex civilization to grow... This decaying factory, disused since some years, was ruined by many fires due to the numerous flammable and polluting materials located on site. Despite the fact that the place is disused, it has got a strong sound identity, a rich sound spectrum.
It was very important for us to introduce this area to you. The interest was to combine the place's discovery with the discovery of the works of numerous artists - working with field recordings made on specific sites. The recording of sound atmospheres of a place could be considered as fixing a fragment of time, space, history (Quite like a photograph).
Representative matters (wood, stone, rubber) of the factory were taken, then sent to the artists. The parcel also contains photographs of the place and a representative sound sample of 15 mn, a kind of sound plotting. This field recording was made by TOY BIZARRE in January and February 1996 and edited by Bruno MOREIGNE. We decided to avoid human sound sources in order to let the place "express itself". With these 15 minutes of sound and the various samples of the place, each artist was able to give its own sound interpretation of the place. The one and only restraints were : to use ONLY the sounds we gave (to do a sound regeneration) and to record a track of 4 mn 30 maximum. All the sound treatment/composition methods were authorized. [You can listen to the original sounds by playing the uneven tracks.]
We can draw a parallel between the rubber regeneration (past activity of the factory) and the regeneration of the factory's actual sound (the result of the decay of the place) ; that's the core of this project. This parallel also allows us to apprehend the sensibilities, the place's visions of each artist - because they all worked on the same sound basis".


Tracklist :

1-1. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:30)
1-2. Aglaopheme - Héphaistos (4:14)
1-3. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:32)
1-4. Alio Die - Untitled (4:58)
1-5. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:34)
1-6. Aube - Reminded Elements (4:31)
1-7. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:31)
1-8. Pierre Bouchet - Atmosphère N1 (5:32)
1-9. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:33)
1-10. Brume - Résurrection (4:16)
1-11. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:35)
1-12. C.O. Caspar - Regeneration 33.32.95.80 (4:41)
1-13. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:32)
1-14. Cranioclast - N 43 Breffy Le Ramier (4:32)
1-15. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:32)
1-16. Crawl Unit - Response To Site (Water On Metal) (4:24)
1-17. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:39)
1-18. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Virtual Concret (4:34)
1-19. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:41)
1-20. Hands To - Regeneration & Decay (4:53)
1-21. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:35)
1-22. Hybryds - Haunted Flies The Phenix (4:49)
1-23. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:33)
1-24. Illusion Of Safety - Machine 101 (4:50)
1-25. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:34)
1-26. Inanna - Son Of Bony Seeds (5:32)
1-27. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (1:37)
2-1. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:34)
2-2. Kapotte Muziek - Untitled (4:26)
2-3. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:29)
2-4. Francisco López - Implantation De 10 Machines (4:12)
2-5. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:31)
2-6. Maeror Tri - Terraformen 1 (5:15)
2-7. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:32)
2-8. Daniel Menche - Room Full Of Truth (9:27)
2-9. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:31)
2-10. Bruno Moreigne - Hévéa 2nde Génération (4:17)
2-11. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:32)
2-12. Ora - Untitled (3:34)
2-13. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:31)
2-14. Small Cruell Party - La Poussière Des Murs Détruit Le Passé (4:30)
2-15. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:29)
2-16. Söldnergeist - Sand Und Gestein (5:11)
2-17. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:30)
2-18. Asmus Tietchens - Industrie Perdue (2:19)
2-19. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:33)
2-20. Toy Bizarre - KDI DCTB 41 (3:49)
2-21. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:30)
2-22. John Watermann - Untitled (4:56)
2-23. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:30)
2-24. Ralf Wehowsky - Kein Schöner... (4:28)
2-25. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:35)
2-26. Wild Shores - Le Laminoir Des Filtreuses (4:42)
2-27. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (0:30)
2-28. Achim Wollscheid - The Little Extra (2:39)
2-29. Toy Bizarre - Untitled (1:28)

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