Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.
Invited by *Duuu Radio to record an EP of sound poetry, Jérôme
Game, a poet working at the crossroads of words, sounds, and images,
gathers two of his stage partners to each create a duet piece with him.
The result is _system_error_ with CHLOÉ and On Time with Jean-Michel Espitallier.
Getting its title from computer language, _system_error_ features a
conversational A.I. learning to tell stories by chatting away with another
voice amidst digital music. Little by little positions get blurred, turn round
and combine until all that remains audible is a narrative trying to get past
all the coding seeking to fix it. In this crash-test kind of poetry made of
words, sounds, and voices, dysfunction is like a utopia : resisting the
world becoming a machine.
Mixing the spoken poem and the sound of the drums, On Time weaves
together the rhythm of the voice and the speed of the music : one no
longer knows who, the drummer or the poet, orchestrates the piece or
weaves the language. Borrowing from American minimalist loops,
"thwarted litanies" of Beat poets, or the motorick of Krautrock, Game
and Espitallier thwart expected hierarchies and syntaxes, renewing the
grammar of sound poetry as much as the stage procedures of poetic
performance—all reinvented here as sound installation, chatterbox,
drifting machine.
Finally, using Jérôme Game's digital images, designer Lutèce
Lockness creates a gatefold that is all at once a catalogue, an
album cover, and a booklet.
Jérôme Game is a French poet author of over twenty volumes of poems, essays, sound and videopoetry, theater plays, and a novel. Also shown in exhibitions as visual, textual, and sound installations, his work explores the shapes and flows of contemporary experience via those of discourses, narratives and images. Often collaborating with musicians, stage directors and visual artists for collective performances, he regularly gives public readings and lectures around the world. Appearing in numerous journals, his texts have been translated into English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Dutch. He teaches Film Studies and Critical Theory in New York City as well as Æsthetics at Haute École des Arts du Rhin.
Chloé Thévenin (born, 1976 in Paris) is a French DJ, artist and composer. Her style, poised between genres and aesthetics, reflects a unique eclecticism which has led her to become one of the most sought-after leaders of the contemporary electronic scene. Chloe became one the emblematic figures of the legendary Pulp Club in Paris through her monthly residency; she plays at all the most prestigious European clubs, music venues and is a regular headliner on the festival circuit. Chloé continues to produce remixes, EPs and albums; the first, The Waiting Room, in 2007 and One in Other in 2010. At the same time she continues to expand her collaborations with other artists, choreographers, performers and film-makers.
Jean-Michel Espitallier (born 1957, lives and works in Paris) is a French contemporary poet, whose work adopts strategies similar to those developed in contemporary art.
