Lawrence English and Laurent Perrier are both autonomous individuals with one brain inside their respective skulls, but that doesn’t mean that they’re prohibited from explicitly acknowledging creative pieces from other people in their work. Neither artist seems like the type to hastily upload remixes of the latest club banger, so what they’ve separately done instead is released albums on Baskaru that are (separately) experimental variations on your typical collaboration.
English’s album Approaching Nothing is a direct extension of Luc Ferrari’s field recording piece Almost Nothing #1 (the material for which was recorded in modern-day Croatia in 1967) and was composed with the concept of “relational listening” in mind. As English describes it, relational listening involves “listening to a listener’s listening” and thinking of ears as “tools of creation” as opposed to solely tools for the extraction of information.
Perrier’s Plateforme #2 follows up the first edition from two years ago, and like that release, the new installment consists of three “one-way collaborations.” The France-based musician asked artists for “raw audio materials,” which he then used to create one roughly 20-minute piece per artist. They’re about as abstract as you might expect, given the presumably disheveled sources.
Approaching Nothing and Plateforme #2 are both out now.
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