Hervé Moire recorded a pastoral stretch of the longest river in France and fed it into his computer, the digital equivalent of a hydroelectric dam, diverting it from an actually existing environment into an increasingly chimerical one.
[Release page] Mirage de Loire is one of the latest entries in a popular subgenre of ambient and field recordings of coursing streams of water. For his piece, Hervé Moire recorded a pastoral stretch of the longest river in France and fed it into his computer, the digital equivalent of a hydroelectric dam, diverting it from an actually existing environment into an increasingly chimerical one.
Turning the water into whine, the smooth flow comes out the other side as a fine, higher-pitched spray, out of which big, pearly notes rise to hover and drift. The buzz of insects along the banks and twitter of birds that hunt them morph into gaily whirring glitches.
With great tact, Moire creates a peaceful twenty-three minute piece that by and by radiates across a delta of amphibious euphony.
Mirage de Loire is available on Aposiopèse. [Release page]
