Opens with long, breathy flute tones and moves slowly into loud, clattering, ringing, droning sounds. Nothing is abrupt in this piece. A couple of flipped flute sounds (attack at the end) are abrupt enough, I guess, but muted enough to not seem so. Muted is probably wrong. But even the loud sounds in [...]

Of the three pieces on this disc, the one entitled axène is by far the shortest. (Far meaning “more than ten minutes.”) Perhaps neither ivraie/baragnes nor ressac/ressac make such a good album name. Perhaps the notes are correct, and the principle of “axène” informs all three pieces. The piece so named has [...]