Final Vinyl / Emmanuel MadanAudio live
Surrounded by four turntables, the DJ-looking artist of Final Vinyl delivers a performance that is equally graphic and musical. As changing and throbbing lights illuminate the sound sources, his hands play records and needles, inventing an unusual musical chain. Instead of playing the music cut on the vinyl records, he mixes their forgotten, accidental and preliminary pieces. Playing only the middle groove, which played over and over exposes a special rhythm from each record, he brings to light an entirely parallel and spontaneous production buried at the center. These are heterogeneous sounds, melodic fragments that become the main sound material of his work. For Emmanuel Madan, the DJ is the one who unlocks the music frozen on a base and returns it to its original expression by his rephrasing of it. He severs the vinyl’s circular totality to expose the fluidity and openness of the undulation. As a result, Final Vinyl becomes that which resists to all finality and abandons itself to the process of creation forever repeated. About Emmanuel Madan Emmanuel Madan is a musician, composer and sound artist. He studied piano and clarinet for 15 years before adopting the electro-acoustic sound studio as instrument for performance. After having earned a degree in electro-acoustic composition from the University of Montreal, under the tutelage of Francis Dhomont, Madan co-founds [The User], a collaboration with architect Thomas McIntosh. Their alliance produces two major projects: Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers (presented in 2001 at Mois Multi) and Silophone. Each of these projects has generated a plethora of work, many of which have been played around the world in various European and North American sites since 1999 and at international new media and sound art festivals. The duo also works with the Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen on Ondulation, a composition for water, sound and light, which Mois Multi presented in 2004. Madan's solo works include Final Vinyl and Freedom Highway, a sound montage taken from right-wing talk radio captured during a road trip across the United States. Emmanuel Madan would like to thank :
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