Philippe Nore's third album for Petcord, Couleur ASCII, deepens the tendencies first found in his previous work
Nahash to expand in both time and sound, as well as to solidify his compositions' structures. On the one
hand there are the manic rhythmic structures of stuttering looping noise, which on the other hand are contrasted with elegiac drones that dissolve any
notion of time. This creates some kind of ambiguity, a swing reaching out to either extreme of the spectrum, sometimes even unexpectedly switching its
state during an ongoing exposition.
Couleur ASCII avoids any connotations with actual events and insists on its right to exist without any explicit purpose by selecting titles that are not exactly suitable for directing the listeners' thought patterns into a particular direction. Sufficiently anonymised as hexadecimal entities, each of these compositions may represent a colour code with its associated emotional qualities or associations, each of them establishing a microcosm of their own. Therefore the listener is encouraged to further randomise the order before settling for one of the 87,178,291,200 possible combinations.
Olliver Wichmann
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| 1. | FFFF99 | 03 min 29 sec | 8'198 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 2. | 3333FF | 01 min 11 sec | 2'814 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 3. | 990000 | 02 min 10 sec | 5'110 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 4. | 339933 | 01 min 00 sec | 2'348 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 5. | 669900 | 04 min 38 sec | 10'874 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 6. | 3399FF | 02 min 10 sec | 5'114 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 7. | 996600 | 03 min 22 sec | 7'920 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 8. | 336666 | 02 min 32 sec | 5'940 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 9. | CC0000 | 05 min 53 sec | 13'818 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 10. | FF33FF | 01 min 53 sec | 4'432 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 11. | 99FFCC | 02 min 28 sec | 5'784 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 12. | FFFFFF | 04 min 17 sec | 10'064 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 13. | CC3333 | 02 min 25 sec | 5'702 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 14. | FFFF66 | 04 min 48 sec | 11'254 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| Artwork | Cover art for prints | 742 KByte | 24x12 cm & 11.8x14.8 cm at 300 dpi | |
| Everything | Entire release plus artwork | 96.1 MByte | zip archive |
Music © 2011 Philippe Nore and the Petcord netlabel.
Artwork © 2011 Synflict.