Musician, actor, and art director Minuit De Lacroix sent us a mix, recorded at a live performance in 2008 and now recovered from an old hard drive. The mix combines soundscape recordings from Paris with live improvisation and spoken word phrases about an orphan character during wartime London.

The world was a much simpler place in 2008 and I was doing what musically seemed to me most interesting at that time.

After starting the year in Paris working on an interactive installation for an architecture firm, I took a couple of weeks off kicking the can around in England; purchasing rare British books in public libraries and toys that make noise in thrift stores near the station road of Beaconsfield (a lovely small market town about an hour West Northwest of central London).

I decided then to spontaneously visit Berlin to perform what I had been composing: a very short polyphonic concert, presented in 4.1 sound yet recorded in stereo, with different musical practices including a mosaic of analogue synthesizer improvisations mixed with field recordings on tape sprinkled with live spoken word phrases about an orphan character during wartime London.

The audio file was buried in an old external hard disc for many years until May 2021.

Credits Recording

das kleine field recordings festival DKFRF presents:
Minuit De Lacroix & La Idra (Héctor Sánchez)
Concert @ Total Artspace, Lenaustrasse 5, Neukölln, 12047 Berlin, Germany
February 28, 2008