strata & spheres

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a geological event. …an eruption, every chord a seismic shift. Roulleau, armed with an arsenal of electronics that could easily be mistaken for the control panel of a spaceship, responds with granular textures that churn and swell like molten lava.  …music that exists in its own space, once cerebral and visceral, an epiphany that feels utterly essential. ChainD.l.k., 3/2025

cosmic, intermingling, overwhelming, immersive! Eyal Hareuveni, 8/2024

squelchy, microtonal rivulets running through the channels which lay open between slow, ponderous chimes of almost piano notes. Surges and scrapes, like factory workings or excavations, rub against glitchery insectoid flickerings and harsh polar winds. Aural Aggravation, Christopher Nosnibor, 8/2024

strata & spheres propels us into a whirlwind of scratched, rubbed and percussive sonorities, seeking to push back the invisible frontiers of universal expansion. Strings jump out at you, while sizzling sounds come and go with an eerie serenity. Tensions build up around a mast poised in the middle of alternating currents, teetering above a void filled with whirring and screeching in voracious aggression mode. Elusive atmospheres, carried by a horde of contrary winds, banging against the windows of intranquility. Hypnotic. SilenceAndSound, Roland Torres, 9/2024

strata & spheres

Nothing here is vague and imprecise, but deceptive: The music Roulleau and Friedl spread out here before our ears is crisp and sharp and precisely what the title promises: Not any arbitrary vibrational fields but physical and energetic transitions of matter and energy, constant changes of state, generating sensual transformations in terms of strata and spheres . Strata with well defined, sonic boundaries versus spheres as the unlimited, cosmic, intermingling, overwhelming, immersive.

Reinhold Friedl's pianistic mathematics blend with Gwennaëlle Roulleau's granular organics, playing with interferences between sources of different nature. From epileptic jolts to tonal lines as elegant as they are imperturbable, we slide down the strings, collide with electronic sounds, particles, glitches or low voltages, to open up harmonic fields. Changing cycles of notes and vibrations generate new materials, rough or liquid, light or massive. The marriage of cycles and rhythms reveals new sonic beings.

We vibrate between strata and spheres, the intimate and the infinitesimal, the latent movement and the momentum that sweeps away, brutal, without asking for a second thought. Decisive micro events evoke logical musical forms, based on the play of spatial shapes: strata & spheres.

Gwennaëlle Roulleau : electronics [ Soma Lyra 8, Arturia Mini brute 2, Duofluctus, amplified objects, electrodynamic microphone , micro piezzo, Usine HH 5.2.
Reinhold Friedl : piano

mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider TM at ZONE, Berlin.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space