PRSNT
Composer, Producer, Sound Designer.
This website highlights personal releases alongside a selection of collaborations and commissions.
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Identity and Design by Faye & Gina, Website by Tristan Bagot.
Composed a short piece of music alongside Nicolas Godin for PRSNT, a compilation by Modern Obscure Music.
‘PRSNT’ is a unique global artistic project combining the input of artists across the worlds of music, video and written word which acts as a statement on how we, as consumers, engage with music in the 21st century. The LP contains original compositions by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pascal Comelade, Laurie Spiegel, Lyra Pramuk, Chassol, Nicolas Godin and Pierre Rousseau, Pedro Vian and Pierre Bastien, Visible Cloaks, Kelman Duran, Raul Refree, Lucrecia Dalt, and Lafawndah; as well as including writings by contemporary thinkers like Shumon Bazar and François J. Bonnet, and images from Araki, Jack Davison, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Dani Pujalte, Elizaveta Parodina, Adrià Cañameras, Larissa Zaidan, Zhong Lin and Javier Tles, among others.
The concept was devised by Created By Us and the Barcelona-based label Modern Obscure Music, following a study which identified that the overwhelming volume of instantly accessible information online is shortening attention spans and altering how audiences engage with music digitally. Their curiosity about the state of online consumption developed further on discovering that around a third of all listeners using digital platforms skip to the next track within the first 30 seconds of playing.
Each musician was given the challenge to create engaging compositions with real artistic merit, inside the confines of this shortened span. Akin to Brian Eno’s famous Windows 95 start-up music, the time constraints are crucial, and the compositions are deceptively complex and more substantial than expectations of their nano nature would suggest.
‘PRSNT’ acts as a critique of flighty feed culture, but is simultaneously constructive, providing something which is either proposed solution or “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em” resignation. Every artist has interpreted the brief differently, resulting in an intriguing blueprint for the potential future of digital music. Could abbreviated micro compositions satisfy, inspire and nourish like their longer counterparts? They certainly take up much less of listeners’ busy lives, which are often spent tackling ever-increasing workloads.
All tracks Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studios in Berlin, Germany. Vinyl cut by Josh Bonati in Brooklyn, NYC, USA. Music selected and curated by Pedro Vian. Artwork & Design by Marc Monguilod.
Tracklist:
Laurie Spiegel - Fly By vidéo
Pedro Vian & Pierre Bastien - Memory
Lyra Pramuk - Cage
Chassol - Ya!
Nicolas Godin & Pierre Rousseau - Page Turner
Pascal Comelade - Segons Com
Visible Cloaks - Lifeworld 00:32 vidéo
Raul Refree - Vid2020
Lucrecia Dalt - Cosa
Kelman Duran - Dead Cat
Lafawndah - From Name-less City
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Silence