TAKUROKU Cafe Oto 2021
Why "Totality"? I don’t know. There are neither prescriptions nor descriptions, or perhaps both compressed into a kind of pellet. Actually, if now, I feel sorry for the people who were not included, I also feel sorry for those who were.
I once had an old car with no stereo, so I use to sing while driving to keep myself alive, aware, awake, and sometimes I recorded those moments. One day, in 2017, while the machine was recording, I didn't sing but talked... something I never did and never do. My voice sounded like that of a stranger, as well as what I was saying. I nearly forgot about this recording until the covid. For some reason it came back to mind during the first lockdown. There are 83 voices, all of whom I know, some of them very well, 4 only are friends-of-friends. And there are over 20 languages.
I’ll let you imagine the details of the whole process; your images are part of the piece.
Furthermore :
All sounds, all music I composed, played, recorded, mixed, commentated, sang, and so on. There are no quotations of any kind.
Parts A, B & C are not to be listened as 3 different pieces: they are like the 3 movements of a single composition. The composition was divided in 3 for technical reasons.
Knowing that the first part ("incipit cambodgien") is one of the loudest, please listen to "Totality" as loud as possible.
(thanks to Lucas)"
- Jean-Luc Guionnet
LIENS :
Voices in order of appearence :
Daravuth Ly
Nicolas Carrasco
Elizabeth Saint Jalmes
Joe Colley
Loty Negarti
Ada Diaconescu
Patrick Guionnet
Houssam El Bokeili
Mattin
Ingrid Schmoliner
Seymour Wright
Klaus Filip
Naomi Verdon
Samo Kutin
Luke Fowler
Marcus Schmickler
Vincent Bouchot
Éric Cordier
Caroline Pouzolles
Frantz Loriot
Cyprien Busolini
Sonia Fleurance
Shaul Kohn
Timothée Quost
Zhang Yixin
Sacha Aksin
Ching Ching Cheung
Ray Brassier
Laurent Pascal
Yan Jun
Santiago Gardeazabal
Laszlo Juhasz
Yanik Miossec
Iris Poon
Xabier Erkizia
Christophe Macé
Joel Grip
Pavel Tchikov
Alexander Lau
Thomas Charmetant
Annette Krebs
Jeremy Kennedy
Jason Kahn
Claire Bergerault
Bertrand Denzler
Andrew Choate
Gaudenz Badrutt
Iban Regnier
Anna Gaïotti
Nicole Khouri
Lou Neva Zlatanova
Emma De Laura
Natasa Serec
Lotus Edde Khouri
Éric La Casa
Gael Leveugle
Taku Unami
Ali Robertson
XperXr
Fredie Decombe
Véronique Rustici
Barry Esson
Martin Michaud
Alessandro Bosetti
Peter Kolovos
Marc Baron
François Durif
Will Guthrie
Clarence Pouzolles-Catela
Nadia Bou Ali
Clayton Thomas
Sophie Daull
Nikos Veliotis
Marc Fèvre
Robert Bastien
Rhodri Davis
Stéphane Rives
Neil Davidson
Cristian Alvéar
Luka Zagoričnik
Martin Tétreault
Moussa Sy
Pascal Battus
Seijiro Murayama
& myself