JEANNE BRIAND & ROMAIN AZZARO RELEASE ‘GEAR 1’
This is the opening track on the album introducing the audience to fluttering electro-acoustic sounds that skip and stutter across the stereo field. Chimes and percussive hits are mutated into insect-like chirps while Briand’s mechanically-enhanced voice introduces us into the pair’s sonic world.
Multidisciplinary artist Jeanne Briand’s artistry turned towards glass at a young age once she found out she was a product of in vitro fertilisation. Her dedication to fine arts led her to collaborate with prominent fashion houses such as Maison Margiela, Cartier and Guerlain. She teamed up with Franco-Italian instrumentalist, composer, and producer Romain Azzaro also working under the alias Rouge Mécanique. He is a guitarist, drummer and classical pianist who’s worked extensively on audiovisual projects, scoring movies, developing installations, and working with Karl Lagerfeld on a 2017 campaign for Chanel.
The two artists are breaking new sonic ground making music out of glass, turning Briand’s elaborate glass gamete sculptures into sound generators, filtering the sounds through instruments and processes to distort their sonic characteristics, shattering the serenity of glass and turning the fragments into poetic, psychedelic electronic music.
Gear(s) is due out on vinyl / digital formats, May 24th, 2024 on Paris-Berlin-Venice-based multidisciplinary platform Fluxus Temporis bridging conversation between sound, spaces & arts.
Today we also announce the release party at Berlin’s Monom on May 25th. For the occasion Azzaro will return to the studio to create a 4DSOUND installation: Gear(s) & Glass, crafted from the echoes of shattered glass. To accentuate the night the duo have also invited Cinna Peyghamy, a Paris-based composer and sound artist to play live, and Romila, who will present her sound installation “Merkayangan: A Study of the Javanese Realms,” which was created in Vancouver’s 4DSOUND studio.
