ANELLO. NAGA. SUNYATA

tracklist: CD-1. Anello CD-2. Naga CD-3. Sunyata http://soundcloud.com/audiomer-music/mireille-capelle-anello#new-timed-comment- at-494062 Review in Vital Weekly 757 by Frans de Waard Obviously I can™t review this 3CD by the for me unknown Mireille Capelle. Let me explain. Each CD has one piece of music, but to play the complete piece you will have to play two CDs on four speakers at the same time. Such elaborate set up is not allowed here in the Vital HQ building, but I understand that each can also be heard individually. Phew, that™s a relief. From the extensive booklet I gather Capelle, who has a training in classical music, in singing, as well as appearing in various films and she composes her ˜Sonic Architectures™ with natural elements and this three (two?) works are part of that. It all sounds very zen inspired, both the music and the written aspect of this. I™m not sure how her compositional techniques work, but on ˜Naga™ I think she uses mainly laptop and perhaps some sort of Max/msp patch, in a very tranquil way. A bit like Christoph Charles on his Ritornell CD. On ˜Anello™ the sound sources seem to be more of an acoustic nature, but also treated with the aid of the computer. It has, like ˜Naga™, a fine open sense of open space. ˜Sunyata™ is on the other hand a very closed work. It takes a long time before one hears anything at all, and it slowly turns out to be a work for flute and cello. Each of the three pieces has an entirely different length, so I™m not sure what the idea is when you are playing these together, but I could very well imagine that playing all three at the same time might bring further enlightenment. Nice one. vitalweekly.net QUOTES The strength of these recordings comes through Capelle's creation of an |No expansive mood and the slowing down of the changes within her music so that the listener is able to focus on small, specific aspects of sounds, and is therefore in a sense able to become aware of the passage of time and the idea of passing time (the concept of time appearing to be the subject of the project)." - Foxy Digitalis A masterpiece - Gonzo Circus