Monochromies

Published on Oct 27, 2013 RADIOKLOW·93 videos

"Monochromies is a musical and visual meditation on the notion of color, composed for Virus TI. The idea of monochrome is very often associated to a single color considered in itself as the substance of a painting, since Yves Klein invented his famous blue and used it constantly in reference to cosmos and alchemy. But this conception is not aware that a genuine monochrome is far more than a unique tone and Yves Klein who was initiated to the secrets of color as well as alchemy perfectly knew it. Behind the visible radiance of a his symbolical atmospheric blue, all the dimensions of the spectrum are gathered in a composition of their different values, forming the specific vibration of the cosmic substance this artist invented. Such a strange phenomenon is not only poetry or the sign of an ancient belief conveyed into a kind of painter's mysticism, but also a physical reality. Every color radiates through the others and produces the specific aura of each of them. As an alchemist wrote about the philosophical stone " It has every color, white, red, yellow, blue sky, green", is also true in the filed of music since colors and sounds are two expressions of the same basic reality. In this piece, I try to explore it by a combination of music and visual events, divided into four moments, each one corresponding to an element, but also according to a process in three dimensions plus one (space and time, sides of the triangle and their blossom in a final fourth absolute form in which the distinct lines and angles finally unite. These different moments are also successive enters into the core of the universe mystery through musical and visual doors (this is why I used the noise of a genuine door in the third enter, in association with the sounds of the Virus TI, from 6:27 to 7:52). Each door leads to a deeper vision until the piece reaches its end in the suspension of the enigma, close to its revelation, but a few steps before it since we can just go on the border but never cross it. The only knowledge we are allowed to reach being the intuition of the other side through our journey of impossible discovery.
Film and music by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Concert d'Angers 1

YouTube via RADIOKLOW | August 13, 2010

"Two little improvisations by Marc-Henri Arfeux at the Silver Club, ENSBA of Angers, the 25 March 2010."

Concert d'Angers 2


via Marc-Henri Arfeux: "National School of Fine Arts of Angers (France). As usual in the concerts I perform, I played totally improvised musics. Here on Virus TI, Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue and Roland Phantom XR, only using synthesis sounds I created especially for this occasion, voices and strings as well as all the other sounds you can hear here.
Receive my best friendly regards,
Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Chromata

Published on Oct 18, 2013 RADIOKLOW·91 videos

"Chromata, for keyboard Virus TI celebrates the mystery of the color's birth out of light, in the depth of the universe. Composition and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Mini Bruitist Quartet

Published on Mar 30, 2013 RADIOKLOW·80 videos

"Collective work of improvisation for Minibrute, Little Phatty, Roland V Synth XT and Playel piano. All instruments by Marc-Henri Arfeux, Noé Charmet, Quentin Grini, Nathan Nadal. Voice by Heidi Berthier. Recorded live friday 19th of march 2013."

En Mode Masculin Féminin

Published on Jul 5, 2013 RADIOKLOW·87 videos

Details via Marc-Henri including synths for each part:

"I am very happy to share with you this film and this music, as a tribute to the creations of a young artist in haute couture, William Kerney, 'present on Facebook), who is only 18 years old and student in term year of my the high school where I teach. I composed the music and the film was built from various sources : movies and photos shot by me and members of the team who worked on this project. Photographers, assistants, hairdressers, cosmeticians, models are all students at Lycée Edouard Herriot of lyon, France.

William Kerney conceived himself all the gowns and hats, from the basis skteches to the final production, including the sewing of every clothe and worked one year on this project.

The film begins with the collections he created during the first semester of 2013, and goes on with the fashion parade he presented around his theme of masculinity and feminity, at Lycée Edouard in may 2013, during the Week of Performing Arts of this high school. It is followed, after the end credits by a bonus consisting of two interviews in french. The first one with William Kerney and his assistant Tristan Fiancette, the second one with me as a teacher of philosophy at Lycée Edouard Herriot, teacher in charge of Culture Life in this high school composer of this music, editor of this film and author of some of the images it contains, just after the fashion parade.

All sounds on Virus TI were created by me. Sounds of other real or virtual instruments are patches of these instruments : mainly Roland Phantom XR - orchestra and voices and piano expanding cards of the SRX series : SRX-02 : "Concert Piano" and SRX-O6, "Complete Orchestra" and SRX - and also feminine choirs from Voices of Passion by Eastwest. At the end of the composition he created a special sound on Alchemy by Camel Audio and played it myself (see below) during the final part of the composition : it is not a sequence nor an automatic pulsation.

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Promenade Improvisation

Published on Jun 17, 2016 RADIOKLOW

All Access Virus TI.

"Music, painted box of the generic and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux.

'Promenade Improvisation' ('Walk Improvisation'), is what was filmed of a mini concertI gave on the 4th of June. This performance of improvisation lasted 30 minutes but in the middle of it, the filming was interrupted by chance and reloaded so that only a part of this set was finally shot. Nevertheless, it gives a good idea of what I have done and of the circumstances of this mini concert.

I was invited by the association Arthésée to perform electronic improvisations in an exhibition of paintings by Erro, one of the most famous masters of the european creation influenced by many currents among which Fluxus, Cobra, the new figurative school of the sixties, comics, etc.

The principle of this action was that I would start to play while the visitors of the exhibition would walk among the paintings and watch them, during 30 minutes. They would have the choice to come and sit behind me, to remain in front of the paintings or to go out after their visit.

On the film you see some to the visitors finish to gather and sit behind me. At the opening, there is only one person, and during the performance, others come and sit to listen. The performance ends with the persons who decided to stay in the room.

I play on my favorite Virus TI. Of course, all sounds are my creation.

I thank Thésée, founder and president of Arthésée to have given me the opportunity to live this very singular and fascinating experience.

The mysterious painted box you see at the beginning of the film is a work I created between April and May of this year. It has no relationship with the painting exhibition, but I preferred to show it instead of works by Erro for rights reasons."

Toshi Ichiyanagi - Parallel Music.

Uploaded on Dec 15, 2010 Hombre Alterado·43 videos

For electronic tape
1962

You can find more of Toshi Ichiyanagi's music here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCGJnvELQW5fM

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Hadikat Raja IV, Deuxième Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jun 13, 2011

"Composition for Keyboard Virus TI. As usual all paintings and drawings by me, except 15 drawings in american comics style by my friend Olivier Michel, alias Doctor Comics, created for a common project ( they are included in the long series of small paintings and drawings in the begining of this second part)."

Nuées Oracles

Published on Dec 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Composed by Marc-Henri Arfeux for Keyboard Virus TI and some parts with Morphwiz, male, female and child voices. All sounds created by the composer, with a video after his own photographs."

0:00 Virus TI

01:42-02:22 : Virus TI and Morphwiz

03:24-05:42 : Virus TI, my voice and my nephew's voice

05:43-07:46 : Virus TI

07/46-10:00, 11:34-12:38, 13:20-14:00, 14:37-15:37 : Virus TI and Morphwiz in background

12:14-14:10 : Virus TI and my wife singing part of a song by the great egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum

16:31-16:57 : Virus TI and Morphwiz in background

20:03-21:26 : Virus TI and call for prayer in Fes ( from 20:44-21:55 & 22:39-22:54 : chinese chimes, )

21:33-22:58 : Virus TI, my voice in an imaginary tongue (from 21:51-23:15 : candies in pill boxes, water)

24:02-24:38 : Call for prayer in Fes, transformed by GRM Tools and Virus TI

24:17-24:53 : Dishtop, and Virus TI sometimes

25:05-25:16 : Morphwiz alone and with my voice, and from 26:26 : bell and Morphwiz

25:17-29:26 : Virus TI, my voice

29:26-End : Virus TI, Church bells and women praying in Italy, Orchestra of classical mystic music in Fes

Hadikat Raja XXI

Published on Apr 27, 2013 RADIOKLOW·79 videos

"Twenty first visit to the garden. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI. Music, film and artistic creations in situ by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

Additional sounds: "small instant of the Steinway by Mirolasv Philarmonik and some natural sounds you will easily identify during the first minutes, some of them having been slightly transformed by the GRM Tools.

Etude de Matière Noire

Published on Sep 27, 2013 RADIOKLOW·90 videos

"Etude de Matière Noire( Study on Black Matter) is a meditation on the mysterious substance physicians call by this beautiful name reminding us of the alchemists poetic practice and conceptions.
Music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux
Composition for Keyboard Virus TI"

Hadikat Raja III, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on May 21, 2011

"Third walk in the garden by other paths. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI."

Quintette

YouTube Published on May 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Quintette is a collective work achieved with a group a four students of Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France : Laure Varichon, Noé Charmet, Clément Poignet, Kiefer Wiessler. During the year 2011-2010, they joined a course I created about philosophy of aesthetics and electronic music. The result of our work is this composition in five movements for Virus TI, Microkorg and Doepfer, to which we added parts for voices and piano. The voice parts are the free theater like interpretation of two famous texts by Emmanuel kant and Friedrich Nietzsche about the question of genius. The voices and the piano were sometimes transformed with the GRM Tools. The five films were created by the four students and I to illustrate the notion of creation in a free way, through the process of a painting's creation followed until the end of the fifth movement. A bonus consisting in one of my own composition was added to the Quintette. The whole work was shown for the first time in Lycée Edouard Herriot on friday 11 May 2012, to a large audience during the Week of Arts of this high school. I want to thank the four students for their friendly involvement and beautiful work in this project !"

The movements and synths used:

1st Movement [Doepfer for intro, Access Virus Ti for majority of piece, MicroKORG solo at end]
7:15 2nd Movement [All MicroKORG]
11:50 3rd Movement [Access Virus Ti - appearance at 17:06]
21:25 4th Movement [All Moog Filtatron]
26:35 5th Movement [Access Virus Ti]
33:57 Bonus [Access Virus Ti]

L'Atelier du songe

Published on Jan 26, 2016 RADIOKLOW

"L'Atelier du songe (Workshop or Studio of dream), is a composition for Access Virus TI, Moog Little Phatty, various sounds and my voice, transformed with the Grm Tools.

I celebrates the mystery of creation, especially in the field of painting an visual arts, in connection with a series of 6 artists who accepted to appear by their works in this project and my own works as a painter. They are : Jean-Claude Terrier (Besançon, France), Abigail Stern, (New York), Patrick Rousseau, (Siem Reap, Cambodia), Thierry Lambert ( Saint Hilaire du Rosier, France), Caroline Dahyot, Ault, France), Robert Lobet (Nîmes France), and me (Lyon, France).

I also composed the written poems that appear on some paintings and the spoken poems included in the musical substance of this composition."

And what you are hearing:

00:00 - 00:45 : Virus TI alone
01:09 - 01:14 : Virus TI and sounds
01:25 - 02:12 : Virus TI and sounds
02:12 - 02:36 : Sounds alone
02:36 - 02:47 : Sounds and Virus TI
02:45 - 02:55 : Sounds alone
02:55 - 07:01 : Virus TI alone
07:01 - 08:25 : breath and Virus TI
09:50 - 10:45 : Marbles and Virus TI
11:00 - 12:04 : Birds and Virus TI
12:20 - 13:10 : Tongue and mouth noises and Virus TI
13:40 - 13:57 : Tongue and mouth noises and Virus TI
13:57 - 18:48 : Virus TI
18:48 - 19:25 : Little Phatty and Virus TI
19:37 - 20:10 : Voice and Virus TI
20:11 - 20:30 : Voice, Little Phatty and Virus TI
20:32 - 22:40 : Sounds, Little Phatty and Virus TI
23:16 - 23:51 : Sounds and Virus TI
23:51 - 24:15 : Voice, sounds, and Virus TI
24:15 - 25:06 : Sounds and Virus TI
25:07 - 25:36 : Little Phatty and Virus TI
25:41 - 26:25 : Little Phatty and Virus TI
26:34 - 26:49 : Little Phatty and Virus TI
26:58 - 27:03 : Little Phatty and Virus TI
28:20 - 28:46 : Voice, Little Phatty and Virus TI
28:46 till the end : Little Phatty and Virus TI

Hadikat Raja IV, Première Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jun 12, 2011

"Fourth visit to the garden. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI"

JBK

Published on Jan 11, 2016 RADIOKLOW

"JBK, Portrait of a friend and artist.
This piece of music was composed as a tribute to my friend, Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Visual artist in computer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf creates is own images and films by complex programming. We worked together a few years ago to produce a video composition called = Meditation : [posted here]

This composition was performed on Virus TI by Marc-Henri Arfeux. The video was also created by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Méditation

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jan 28, 2012

"'Meditation' is a global work of numeric art and electroacoustic music. The video is the work of the french artist Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and the music for it was composed on Virus TI Keyboard by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

"This work, video and music, will take place in various exhibitions of numeric art in Europe in the following months."

Schopfung

Published on May 15, 2013 RADIOKLOW·85 videos

"Schopfung is a collective work of electroacoustic music and video I conceived with the students of Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created and have been supervising for two years in Lycée Edouard Herriot of Lyon. This work explores the question of natural and artistic beauty through music and image ans is based on a famous meditation of Hegel about this problem in his Aesthetics."

Some additional details including the synths used throughout the piece via Marc-Henri:

"As it vas programed, the students and I presented our work during a performance monday evening at 17h30 at the theatre of our High School (Lycée Edouard Herriot, in the city of Lyon).

We divided the performance in various pats : a first piece of music and video you will find here, a first live improvised set, a second video and music piece (Hadikat Raja XXI you already know because the students thought it fitted with our theme) and a last short improvised set. The live sets will be presented apart un a single video.

Here is the collective work of music and video by which we began.

Is is called Schopfung (Creation) un reference to Haydn's oratorio, Die Schopfung,(The Creation). Our them was the question of natural and artistic beauty after the mediations of Hegel about it in his Aesthetics. The idea of a link between this philosophical program and the concept of creation was suggested to us by fabulous recordings of electromagnetic waves from the solar system planets achieved by Voyager I and II during the seventies.

We used natural recorded sounds, various synths, and voices of two student girls members of the group.

Here is the approximative timetable of our various sound and music tracks. (All sounds except the natural sounds and the girls voices and the Bulgarian voices of Voices of Passion by Eastwest ,are original creations of the various instruments - when a sound, natural of coming out a synth or a natural voice is treated by the GRM Tools, I always give this precision)

I send you my best friendly regards,
Marc-Henri

0:30-4:50 : A deep bass group of sounds which are recordings of electromagnetic waves by Voyager I and II

Little Phatty : 01:28-01:50, 03:53-04:20 : ring like sounds

01-31-2:20 and 3:49-04:00 : PPG Wave 2V software of the Waldorf suite

02:26-03:48 : Filtatron of Moog various sounds including sparkle and rings like sounds

04:50-08:34 : all sounds by the Virus TI

08:35-09:00 : fire natural sound

08:55-09:42 Virus TI sounds

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Hadikat Raja, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on May 2, 2011

follow-up to this post
"Composition for Keyboard Virus TI"

"It is the first of a series about gardens : when you walk in garden it is always different, not only because of the hour and the season but the orientation of your walking, so that you see new aspects every time you visit the garden. In the next versions, I will use again some of the elements present here, develop them, just as flowers blossom, suppress others, create brand new."

Hadikat Raja XIII

Hadikat Raja XIII, Première Partie.dv

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jan 7, 2012

"Thirteenth visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI Keyboard."

Hadikat Raja XIII, Deuxième Partie