La Démesure du pas, a project created by artist and musician Matthieu Prual, opens a largely unexplored aspect of phonographic production: that of recording moving instruments.
In anticipation of the imminent release of their album Musique Migratoire – Enregistrements Nomades, La Démesure du pas released the video of a performance filmed by Thomas Rabillon in Nantes, France, during a walk on the banks of the Erdre, as part of the À Ciel Ouvert festival organized by the Pannonica.
La Démesure du pas opens a largely unexplored aspect of phonographic production: that of recording moving instruments. Following the creation of the eponymous walking concert form in 2021, Matthieu Prual and his team embarked on a series of outdoor recordings in the spring of 2023. Mirroring their public musical wanderings, they alternated between walking sessions and exploring locations with unique acoustics and poetics, varying the instrumentation with solo, duo, and quartet pieces.
The nomadism of this approach lies in the rhythm of the step, anchored in the body’s breath, opening to the boundlessness of musical imagination, in the clash of sounds that strike the space and bodies and nestle into the surrounding world. The experience aims to go beyond a mere sound document that would illusorily attempt to give the listener an image of the in-situ experience.
Musique Migratoire — Enregistrements Nomades will be released on CD, LP and digital formats, as well as in a limited edition of 30 numbered boxes including 9 reproductions, an LP and a download code. It will be released on Ormo Records/Pagans (Kuronekodistribution), on September 27, 2024.
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