Enrique Ramirez, Matthias Puech

The six tracks that compose this record were taken form a seven-hour performance that took place in November 2023 in the Louvre-Lens Museum in France. This album crystallizes a process where multiple timelines and possibilities coexisted, distilling them into a linear sequence. This album involves transforming a live act that embraced a fluid and expansive understanding of time, into an object that can be played in identical loops. The live performance was reimagined, translating temporalities while maintaining the visual and even cinematographic quality of the sounds. We can perceive this album like photographs of landscapes in continuous evolution – images that freeze the process of becoming into one of its potentially infinite variations.

Enrique Ramírez (b. 1979 in Santiago de Chile), lives and works between Paris (France) and Santiago (Chile) since 2007. He studied popular music and cinema in Chile before joining the postgraduate master in contemporary art and new media of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France). In 2014 he won the discovery price of Les Amis du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. He has since exhibited his work in several places in France, such as Le Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, or le 104 in Paris and Le Grand Café – Centre d'art d'intérêt national in Saint-Nazaire, as well as in institutions in Central and South America (Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile; Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires). In 2017, Ramírez was invited to the Biennale Venezia (curator: Christine Macel), in 2020 he was is nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize.

Matthias Puech (b. 1983 in Paris) is a composer, instrument designer, researcher and teacher. He is a research and development scientist at INA GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, where he leads the development of GRM Tools, and an associate professor of Computer Science. He pursues a dual interest for natural phenomena and the mathematical and computational concepts that let us apprehend our world. Interpreting “ambient” and “noise” in their original sense, his compositions intend to disturb the distinction between sound synthesis and field recording, transporting the listener amidst imaginary ecosystems, fruits of the symbiotic relationship of the machine with its environment. His music was released by labels Hands in the Dark, Hallow Ground, or Nahal, and was performed notably at Cafe OTO (London), GRM Akousma (Paris), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) or Kaserne (Basel).