Autonomie Minérale

Clear vinyl. Autonomie Minérale is the apex of a triptych that sprang up in less than three years, with a feeling of urgency. There is nothing fortuitous about this name, “Tachycardie.” Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, is a musician and a composer (Pneu, I N S T I T U T R I C E, La Colonie de vacances) as well as a plastic artist, and in this project he continues his very singular exploration of the depths of sonic matter
After Probables (2019) and Sommé-e (2020), his previous intuitions have developed into goldsmithery: this piece resulted from the alloying and balancing of the mechanical oscillation of a stone that is hit, stricken, and the electronic oscillation of a home-made synthesiser. Thus, no one can tell where synthesis starts and where sonic naturalism ends. Tachycardie is therefore a game of chaos where chance looms large, as usual with the way things are, from the commonest to the most beautiful of all things. A stone like a windfall, somehow. The drawings featuring on the cover are by DoubleBob, an illustrator and cartoonist at the origin of innovative comic books, notably for Frémok
Autonomie minérale emerged from the wish to bring percussion and electronic composition together on the same level, be it in terms of timber, sound definition or musical modes. The idea to build percussive pieces in which the acoustic elements function like an arrangement while the electronic element builds a rhythmic backbone goaded me into using new methods, which consisted in examining the smallest sonic details of a single percussive element, a stone, or plants, and turn them into a material at the service of compositions based on the use of a single and unique synthesiser tailor-made by Frédéric Mancini