Presque Rien pour une voix perdue

Presque Rien pour une voix perdue (almost nothing for a lost voice) is seven movements in which a recorded voice is slowly allowed to dissolve back into the room that recorded it. Language frays into breath, breath into hum, hum into architecture. A 193 Hz hum from the recording space, a fridge, was cleaned out of the room and rebuilt as the album’s spine; beneath everything sits an E3, the most stable pitch the voice ever held. It opens mid-sentence and ends after the last one.

The music was conceived for four channels. The films imagine rooms within the same building, where a chair, a doorway, copper cable and narrow light recur, while the voice takes material form as filaments, folded surfaces, ribbons, waterlogged paper and dust. They carry the stereo master, and the rooms become places to listen for what remains.