After decades of working at the margins of experimental electronic music, French composer Manon Anne Gillis returns with Eyry], her ninth solo album and a stunning testament to her unique approach to sound as a tactile, sensory experience. Released on Art Into Life as a limited edition of 300 vinyl copies, Eyry weaves together voice, breathing, words, and sounds using ingenious methodologies that have defined Gillis’ practice since the 1980s.
Since her earliest works in the 1980s, Gillis has been creating music using primitive systems, pursuing an aesthetic that privileges feeling and immersion over conceptual understanding. Eyry continues this trajectory with ten pieces that transform spoken word and singing into blurred noise and irregular repetitions, plunging them…
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A spellbinding five-CD box set Archives Box 1983-2005 documenting the entire enigmatic production of one of the missing links in experimental electronic and prototypical industrial music: Anne Gillis. From her groundbreaking 1983 Devil’s Picnic release through her 2005 installations and exhibitions, this comprehensive collection unveils the hidden world of a visionary French composer whose work anticipated much of what would follow in electroacoustic composition and sound art.
Since the early 1980s, Manon Anne Gillis has been creating music using primitive systems, pursuing the smallest of impulses to their logical end-points. Her work exists in a space simultaneously quotidian and theatrical, transforming spoken word, breathing, and singing into blurred noise…