A journey into the universe of one of the most original composers in the field of the concrete music (the essay is followed by an interview between Michel Chion and Christian Zanési, a biography and a discography).
Lionel Marchetti (born 1967 in Marseille) is a composer of musique concrète—his compositions are often described as a true cinema for the ear—as well as an improviser (electronics, various analogic systems with modified speakers, REVOX reel-to-reel recorder…) and a poet. He also writes essays on the art of musique concrète from the perspective of a practicing artist. To sum up his work in a single phrase, he likes to quote Kenneth White: "Concrete or abstract? I love the abstract where a trace of substance remains, the concrete that refines itself at the borders of emptiness."
