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"

Siralia - 2nd Tribute to Voyager 1 & 2 on the Access Virus Ti

Published on Sep 14, 2013 RADIOKLOW·89 videos
Follow-up to Héliopause posted here.

"Siralia is the second piece I composed on sunday 8th of September 2013, as a tribute to the two Voyagers traveling in the distant border of the solar system, without knowing at that moment the NASA would announce officially the crossing of this border by Voyager I who - I say "who" instead of "which" because I feel these ships are part of us an kind of distant brothers - now travels in the interstellar space, first of all the human spaceships to explore this open region of the unknown.

Siralia precisely refers to this unbelievable extraordinary journey in the outer space, according to my sonic and visual imagination. When I composed it, only knowing the two Voyagers where traveling in the Héliopoause I wanted to jump one step beyond to anticipate this great adventure in the interstellar void. Now Voyager I runs and glides in this mysterious ocean of silence and my composition becomes a message to "him" !

I called this composition "Siralia", for two reasons. Sirius is the nearest star that can be reached from the solar system, and it is also the title Karlheinz Stockhausen gave to the first opera of his Week of Light cycle, in 1976. At that time I was 14 years old and discovering the contemporary electroacoustic of the seventies with passion, having been initiated to this music by my father. The first record I heard in the early seventies was "Le Voyage (The Journey) by Pierre Henry, a major composition of 1963. Before that, in the late sixties, when I was 8 or 9, my father would often play with his radio at the extreme regions of the short waves band to produce strange sounds he compared to tibetan music, and I was found of it ! I think this is the first root of my passion for electroacoustic music and wanted here to pay this tribute to my father who will be happy to be quoted here for this beautiful reason, as well as my mother who will be very pleased to read here this little but essential anecdote about him !

Siralia was composed on my favorite Keyboard Virus TI. The film is done after personal videos and pictures treated for the circumstance as well as various pictures of astronomy, including images of Voyager, of the message it carries and of star Sirius, also treated by various means to produce this film."

Héliopause by RADIOKLOW - A Tribute to Voyager 1 on the Access Virus Ti

Published on Sep 12, 2013 RADIOKLOW·88 videos

What's interesting is Marc-Henri aka RADIOKLOW composed and then published this piece earlier today just before news broke that Voyager 1 has indeed entered interstellar space.  That's some great timing.  :)

"In 1977, The NASA launched two space shuttles, Voyager 1 and 2, to explore the solar system and reach if possible its limits to cross them and travel in the interstellar space. The last news about them let us think they are now somewhere on this border called heliopause, may be just one step beyond. From time time to time, I have a though for them as I would of distant twins who would be brothers of mine, with a deep tenderness. This is the reason why I composed this piece as a tribute to them and their journey to the unknown. Heliopause was composed for keyboard Virus TI, film and music by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

And the news today via NASA:

"Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space. The NASA spacecraft, which rose from Earth on a September morning 36 years ago, has traveled farther than anyone, or anything, in history. Now Voyager 1 is in the space between the stars. How did Voyager 1 get there? How do we know and where is it going? For more information on humanity's first emissary to what lies beyond, explore the videos, images and stories below..."

Published on Sep 14, 2013 RADIOKLOW·89 videos
Follow-up to Héliopause posted here.

"Siralia is the second piece I composed on sunday 8th of September 2013, as a tribute to the two Voyagers traveling in the distant border of the solar system, without knowing at that moment the NASA would announce officially the crossing of this border by Voyager I who - I say "who" instead of "which" because I feel these ships are part of us an kind of distant brothers - now travels in the interstellar space, first of all the human spaceships to explore this open region of the unknown.

Siralia precisely refers to this unbelievable extraordinary journey in the outer space, according to my sonic and visual imagination. When I composed it, only knowing the two Voyagers where traveling in the Héliopoause I wanted to jump one step beyond to anticipate this great adventure in the interstellar void. Now Voyager I runs and glides in this mysterious ocean of silence and my composition becomes a message to "him" !

I called this composition "Siralia", for two reasons. Sirius is the nearest star that can be reached from the solar system, and it is also the title Karlheinz Stockhausen gave to the first opera of his Week of Light cycle, in 1976. At that time I was 14 years old and discovering the contemporary electroacoustic of the seventies with passion, having been initiated to this music by my father. The first record I heard in the early seventies was "Le Voyage (The Journey) by Pierre Henry, a major composition of 1963. Before that, in the late sixties, when I was 8 or 9, my father would often play with his radio at the extreme regions of the short waves band to produce strange sounds he compared to tibetan music, and I was found of it ! I think this is the first root of my passion for electroacoustic music and wanted here to pay this tribute to my father who will be happy to be quoted here for this beautiful reason, as well as my mother who will be very pleased to read here this little but essential anecdote about him !

Siralia was composed on my favorite Keyboard Virus TI. The film is done after personal videos and pictures treated for the circumstance as well as various pictures of astronomy, including images of Voyager, of the message it carries and of star Sirius, also treated by various means to produce this film."

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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Trio

Published on May 24, 2013 RADIOKLOW·86 videos

"Two improvisations with Quentin Grini and Nathan Nadal, members of the Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created two years ago at Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France. This is the live part of the performance given in the theatre of this high school, Monday 13th of May 2013, for the opening of our Week of Arts."

Access Virus, Moog Little Phatty & Phantom XR improv.

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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Lumen Aqua & Hadikat Raja XXII

Published on May 4, 2013 RADIOKLOW·82 videos

"Composition for Virus TI, percussions and Steinway concert piano of Miroslav Philarmonik by IK Multimedia, and natural sounds."

Hadikat Raja XXII, Première Partie

Published on May 3, 2013 RADIOKLOW·82 videos

"First part of the twenty second visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI and Little Phatty. Music, film and all arts by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

Hadikat Raja XXII, Deuxième Partie

Published on May 3, 2013

"Second part of the twenty second visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI and Little Phatty. Music, film and all arts by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

On the synths featured: "Virus, the Little Phatty and the classical percussion set of Miroslav Philarmonik. The Little Phatty can be heard at the following times, mostly playing in association with the Virus :

05:25-05:57
10:43-10:52
10:55-12:09
12:11-12:18
12:28-12:56
14:12-14:53

The percussion set of Miroslav appears two times. First, with the Virus which plays its own percussion part with sounds I created : 08:37-09:21 A second time at the very end of the piece as you will notice."

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.

Mysterioso & Heosphoros

Published on Apr 22, 2013 RADIOKLOW·78 videos

"Composition for Keyboard Virus TI and Voices of Passion, Virtual Instrument by EastWest/SoundsOnline. Music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

"I play the Virus and uses at the end a virtual instrument I love : Voices of Passion created by Eastwest, and to be more detailed, it is the part of the instrument which is called Bulgarian voices."

Heosphoros

Published on Apr 23, 2013

"Heosphoros is the light bringer, the morning star which appears soon before the sunrise, at dawn, when the sky is still floating in colorless fluidity.
Composition for Virus TI, Miroslav Philmarmonik by IK Multimedia and Ethno Instrument by Motu.
Music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

"For this I used the Virus transformed by the GRM Tools, drop of rainstick form Ethno instrument by Motu and a clarinet of Miroslav Philarmonik by IK Multimedia, transformed very slightly by the GRM Tools."

Silences avec des voix I & II

Published on Apr 14, 2013 RADIOKLOW·76 videos

Virus TI and Moog Little Phatty.  RADIOKLOW is Marc-Henri Arfeux who recently sent in some pics of his setup at the cathedral Saint Bonaventure in Lyon. Video for that performance should be coming soon. It is great to see synthesizers being used in settings and performances like this.

"Poetic and electroacoustic performance given by Mohammed El Amraoui and Marc-Henri Arfeux the10th of March 2013, at Lyon's Museum of Fines Arts, during the national festival : Printemps des poètes 2013. Many thanks to the Espace Pandora, Thierry Renard, the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Pierre Lacote and Pierre Perrin.
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)"

Silences avec des voix II

Performing in a Cathedral - Marc-Henri at Saint Bonaventure in Lyon

Published on Apr 15, 2013 RADIOKLOW·77 videos

The Access Virus acts as a controller in this performance. The first sounds you hear are actually the Roland V-Synth XT. Later it controls the Snow. The Little Phatty controls the Blofeld.

'Concert with poetic reading given at Saint Bonaventure of Lyon, during the festival "Artistic Adventures at the Cordeliers' the 10th of march 2013.

With Marie-Ange Sebasti : poems and Marc-Henri Arfeux : synthesizers (Virus TI, Roland V-Synth XT, Virus Snow Blofeld, Little Phatty).

Many thanks to Michel Morlot.

This concert lasted one hour, but since we had small technical problems with the filming, I decided to select 45mn of the whole show, divided into five moments, from the beginning to the end."

Marc-Henri dedicates the performance to the people of Boston and the inocent victims.


Update: Video of the performance added above.

Pics of via Marc-Henri's (aka RADIOKLOW) setup and performance at Saint Bonaventure in Lyon. The performance was yesterday, April 10.  Four of the pics were taken in the afternoon before the performance. The second to last is a still from a video of the performance which will be available at a later date.  You can see an Access Virus TI & Snow, Moog Little Phatty, Roland V-Synth XT Rack and Waldorf Blofeld. I asked Marc-Henri if I could post the images as you do not see this every day. The video of the performance will follow when ready. Until then, see the RADIOKLOW and Marc-Henri links above for previous posts featuring Marc-Henri's work. He is a true explorer of sound and his compositions with the Access Virus Ti are reminiscent of what others do with expansive modular systems.

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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."

Quatre Fragments

Published on Jan 20, 2013 RADIOKLOW·79 videos

Metallic timbres are the Access Virus Snow. This is a follow-up to this post.

"Jamming with Nathan Nadal on Little Phatty, Snow Virus controlled by the LP, and acoustic Pleyel piano, friday 11 January 2013. All electronic sounds created by Marc-Henri Arfeux with live variations on them by the two performers."

Improvisation d'Hiver I - Synthesis in the Classroom

Published on Jan 18, 2013 RADIOKLOW·78 videos

"Improvisation of the 11th january 2013 for Little Phatty and Snow Virus played simultaneously through the Little Phatty's keyboard. Film and recording on camera by Nathan Nadal"

Improvisation d'Hiver II

Published on Jan 19, 2013

"Second Improvisation performed the 11th of January 2013, on Little Phatty and Snow Virus, played simultaneously through the Little Phatty's keyboard. Film and recording by Nathan Nadal."

Per the site guidelines, you need to be able to differentiate between the synths in any given post. The idea is you can get a feel for the synth/s featured. In this case it's not as clear what synth is producing each sound, but I thought I'd post it for the unique context. This performance is actually a lecture at a high school in France. It's great to know that students are being exposed to synthesis and the more abstract sonic soundscapes they are capable of.

Via Marc-Henri: "Winter Improvisation I and II are two pieces of music performed live for those of my students who attend the course of Philosophy and Electroacoustic music at "Lycée Edouard Herriot of Lyon". I created this course two years ago with the agreement of the Principal of Lycée Edouard Herriot and the Board of education of Lyon. It takes place among a program of education and culture in which i am absolutely free ti create and test new methods of teaching to transmit the taste for culture to youth. The course is also connected with the Museum of Fine Art of Lyon in which I will give a performance of electroacoustic music and poetry in march 2013.

The pieces of music presented here consist in two improvisations performed friday the 11th of january 2013. I wanted to introduce them to the question of improvisation because we plan for may a performance with a video, a recorded collective piece in which they will take the main part and simultaneously a live improvisation on this canvas. Thus, to give them an example of this kind of thing, I gave them two improvisations with my Little Phatty and my Snow Virus playing simultaneously, the second being controlled by the keyboard of the first one.

In the first attempt, I improvise on part of the recording of De Haute Vallée which is played by the computer, from00:20 until 13:14. My aim was to show them how you can recreate a former composition by playing improvisations on it and it is for me a kind a variation in the same kind of spirit I use in the Hadikat Raja series, except that I simply open a live music field over the root composition and melt it with this root composition instead of changing the position of former elements, erasing some of them, developing others and creating new elements in each new piece to produce a series of work in progress as I do in the Hadikat Raja Series. The Little Phatty played solo ends this first performance from 15:46 to 16:16.

In the second improvisation, the Little Phatty play together and with no recorded part, from the first second to the end.

All sounds are mine on both instruments, as usual, and I had no rehearsal before. This was the first time I used the LP and the Snow, since a long time. Thus, the performance is absolutely improvised.
Both improvisations were shot and recorded on a camera, by one of my students, Nathan Nadal who also created the titles and effects of the first film. I created the titles of the second, adding a the end a recent painting to conclude by a still image.

I hope the quality of sound is not to poor. The filming and recording of these two improvisations had not been planned and since Nathan asked me if he could shoot them I said yes because it is a track of the work we do in this course."

Lyon, the 15th of January, 08:25 am

De Haute Vallée

Published on Jan 6, 2013 RADIOKLOW·76 videos

"De Haute Vallée (From High Valley). Composed for Keyboard Virus TI, Morphwiz, Filtatron, Korg I MS 20 for I Pad, Curtis for I Pad. All sounds, music and photographs created by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

00:07 - 07:51 : Virus TI
00:35 - 02:49 : Filtatron
03:24 - 05:30 : Korg I MS 20
06:51 - 16:02 : Curtis (07 : 52-09:36, Curtis alone and from 09:38 with Virus TI
16:03 : Filtatron alone
17:47 - 18:56 : Virus and Filtatron, and Virus TI alone until 19:04
19:05 - 19:56 : Morphwiz alone
19:57 - 21:58 : Morphwiz and Virus TI, Virus TI alone till 22:05
22:06 - 22:24 : Filtatron, Virus TI coming from 21:08
22:40 - 24 : 08 : Virus TI and Curtis
24:08 - 24:28 : Curtis alone
24:09 : Virus TI alone
24 : 43 : Morphwiz alone, with Virus TI from 24:54, Virus TI interrupting around 25:00
25:27 - 26:09 : Morphwiz and my "Quartet"
26:10 - 29:52 : "Quartet" very often treated by GRM Tools, Virus TI coming from 29:29 until the end of the composition
30:42 - 31:03 : "Quartet" and Virus TI, and Virus TI alone
32:56 - 33:05 : Virus TI and "Quartet"
33:06 - 35 : 11 : Virus TI alone

Messe Anubienne

Published on Dec 23, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Messe Anubienne - Missa Anubia. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI. All sounds and photographs created by Marc-Henri Arfeux. In memory of my great friend M. N."

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

Renversement d'Azur

Published on Oct 29, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Renversement d'Azur/Inversion of Azure. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI, Little Phatty, Wiener Philarmonik percussions, Omnisphere tenor and soprano, and with also the voice of Medhi de Montard, a 10 years old boy, my nephew, chanting and saying a poem I wrote. All photographs and paintings by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

0:00-0:38 : Virus alone (voices created on this instrument)
0:39-1:32 : On the Virus a few notes by the Little Phatty, easy to identify
6:44-7:44 : Wiener Philarmonik percussions on the Virus
12:21-13:15 : Little Phatty (a few notes) with Virus
13:33-14:17 : Little Phatty alone
14:18-16:00 : My Nephew's voice with the Little Phatty.
16:00-16:24 : My Nephew's voice with the Virus
16:24-17:27 : My Nephew's voice with Virus and a few notes by the Little Phatty
17:27-18:00 My Nephew's voice treated by GRM Tools with the Virus
19:49-20:30 My Nephew's voice with the Virus and the Little Phatty playing some notes.
20-31-21:10 : My Nephew's voice and the Virus ( few Little Phatty notes at 20:57-21:10
22:11-22/30 : Omnisphere soprano with voices created on the Virus
22:30-24:15 Voices created on the Virus
24:15-26:25 : Voices created with the Virus with Omnisphere tenor and soprano
26:25-end : Voice created on the Virus

"My aim there was to create something having links with contemporary lyrical music."

Le Royaume de Morphée : La Descente, Le Royaume, L'Auditorium

Published on Oct 27, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Composed for Keyboard Virus TI, music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Le Royaume de Morphée : Palais intérieurs, Les Voyages

Published on Oct 26, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Music composed for Keyboard Virus TI. All photographs, paintings and drawings also by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Le Royaume de Morphée : Palais intérieurs, Les Voyages

Published on Oct 26, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Music composed for Keyboard Virus TI. All photographs, paintings and drawings also by Marc-Henri Arfeux"