Cinema Perdu
Vlakverdeling
Cinema Perdu's third album for the label, extending his investigation of human impact on landscape after Interventions in a Landscape and Amsterdam CS. The material here is drawn from trips through the Frisian polder, where the strict demarcations of the Dutch countryside change atmosphere with weather and light but above all with the geometric clarity of human marking. Field recordings are read as abstract forms and colours, then translated back into new compositions.
Amsterdam CS
Cinema Perdu turns the spaces of Amsterdam Centraal Station - the roofs, the three access tunnels, the IJ-passage - into compositional material. The everyday sonic vocabulary remains constant (announcements, suitcases, conversation) but is reshaped by the changing acoustics of each space. The pieces are built in a Cagean attitude: not romantic vignettes of the station nor pure documentation, but interpretations of how each architecture stages its own atmosphere.
Interventions In A Landscape
Cinema Perdu is Martijn Pieck's solo vehicle for what he calls 'soundtracks without movies': field recording as compositional starting point, layered with synthesizers, contact-microphone material and other electronic sources to reconstitute the feeling of a place at a moment. Interventions in a Landscape unfolds across four pieces drawn from coastal sites where human modification of the terrain sharpens existing contrasts. Place-based composition on the musique concrète-ambient threshold.