Lionel Marchetti

''I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the 80s as, whilst composing Micro-climat, I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear field for the mind. The sky and its forces: our ally. A model for a natural music which, although fixed, as in musique concrète (a rule of the genre), moreover on a recording tape, will remain charged with such a poetic quality that (isn't it its role or rather its reality?) it will ensure a perpetual renewal for our senses, so as to reach another idea of the world, far more open and richer than what we could have imagined.'' Lionel Marchetti, 2011. La grande vallée (1993/95), 20'41, Musical composition, design and sound production carried out at the INA grm Studios (Paris) in 1993/95. Original audio recordings in the Drôme and the Mont Ventoux areas Voice: Hélène Bettencourt, Vocal occurrences: Frédéric Malenfer, Bruno Roche, Lionel Marchetti, Bass clarinet (for processing): Jean Andréo. Micro-climat (1989/90), 21'33, Micro-climat is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90. Musical composition, sound design and production, audio recordings in 1989/90 at the CFMI studios in Lyon (Lumière University, Lyon 2).

• 01 La grande valle
• 02 Micro-climat