Sébastien Roux
Musiques d'ordinateur
Sébastien Roux imagines new listening situations. He uses algorithms, games, movement, spatialisation, and diagrams to articulate two complementary notions: the perception of form and the forms of perception.
Musiques d'ordinateur (Computer music) gathers pieces written between 2011 and 2020. The tracks on this CD are the more or less predictable results of more or less complex programs. The sounds and their organization (the score) are calculated. There is no editing nor mixing. The algorithm …
Succession of Timbres With one Partial in Common
Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition. In 2016, Sébastien Roux presents Succession of timbres with one partial in common as part of the exhibition Max Feed – Work and Heritage of Max Neuhaus, organized by Daniele Balit at Frac Franche-Comté. The title refers to and summarizes two sentences written by Neuhaus in the text that accompanies the drawing, and thus immediately reveals the influence of the Southwest St…
Inevitable Music #5
**300 copies** Inevitable Music is a collection of pieces based on the work of American artist Sol Lewitt, begun by Sébastien Roux in 2012. Each piece is a sonic translation of a wall drawing using Lewitt's instructions for the realization of the drawing, or the drawing itself, as a score. This fifth installment of Inevitable Music is the first to propose all instrumental compositions for guitar, bassoon, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, viola and voice. The pieces were composed in 2016 during …
Quator
Sébastien Roux's new album is an ambitious work of musique concrète. Like the title track of his previous album More Songs, Quatuor is based on Beethoven's 10th string quartet. The sonic material of the piece is culled from arrangements of the original score by Mathieu Bonilla, for flute, clarinet, cello, French horn, and percussion. Quatuor follows the same structure as the original string quartet, classic and solid, but the sound is profoundly original, in turns woody, rubbed, creaking, jerky …
Issues
Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.'And so, as a follow-up to some of the projects that periodically interacted with the printed version of the review, you will now be able to listen to Volume through this record, the six sound pieces of which respectively 'tr…
Inevitable Music #1: Variations on Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #26
Future Audio Graphics is pleased to announce Inevitable Music #1: Variations on Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #260, composer Sébastien Roux's investigation of Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #260, with a commissioned essay from artist and composer, Seth Cluett and featuring the work of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Inevitable Music #1 is the first collection in a series of compositions from Roux dedicated to the conceptual processes of LeWitt's seminal wall drawings, which LeWitt began to prod…
Songs
Songs is the much-anticipated follow-up to Parisian sound designer and musician Sébastien Roux’s beautiful cd Pillow (Apestaartje, 2004). The simple title of Songs hides a deep work that Roux states is based in mathematics, symmetry (and assymetry) and organized randomness. Songs is a skillfully and beautifully rendered album of gentle and sometimes not-so-gentle acoustic instruments and melodic granular clouds. Each song is titled simply by the instruments that make it, thus stressing the proce…
Revers ouest*
"This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood… Or perhaps is it the story of this woman coming here to meet a beloved stranger, at the Grange-Auloup street ? or maybe their story ?" Sébastien Roux. Revers Ouest* is a radiophonic work based on text fragments drawing a futuristic and mental description of the Nantes city. It’s an isolated utopist vision of architecture, buildings made like concrete waves. The texts are read by two actors, whose voices are used as a musical materi…