Artist: Fraction
Title: Planète Humaine
Label: Infiné Music
Release Date: October 5th 2016
Cat. Number: iF3052

 

Tracklist

1 – Planète Humaine
2 – Partizan
3 – Fibre [5719]
4 – Noed Deux
5 – Isometric

 

When it comes to digital arts melting together, Fraction represents the avant-garde with his sound experimentations and spatial projections. During the past two years he has created a number of immersive audiovisual performances such as Dromos, ObE and more recently, Entropia (premiered at several top digital arts festivals). Fraction is also the first is the first artist in residency at the Spatial Sound Institute of 4DSOUND in Budapest, which regards artists such as Murcof, Dasha Rush or Kangkin Ray among their active members.

Planète Humaine is the first experimental studio recording of Fraction since the release of Superposition in 2008. These 5 tracks are a complete reboot of his sound palette as much as
a gathering of the metaphysic themes explored in previous installations. Fraction questions both the relation between physics and space, and the place of humanity in a human
shaped environment.

Even though the producer is used to blending images and emotions together that are human by nature, it’s through a real-time analogic process with a distortion pedal and an outflowing granular synthesis that Fraction is pushing his audience towards retro-futurist and dystopian landscapes.

Mike Winkelman, who directed Flying Lotus’ Kill Your Co-Worker video, did the cover artwork and succeeded in capturing the mutating atmosphere that floats around this 5 track EP.

The first eponym track explores Tortoise and Tarwater post-rock in an unprecedented way, that androgynous chorus getting mixed together and growing until flooding the whole sound spectrum.

The second track Partizan throws the listener into masochistic pleasures due to the overwhelming compressed bass line that leaves only a few ethereal guitar riffs the chance to cut through. As for the other tracks, the body and machine improvisations and the torn apart sounds are shaping what could be a seismic contraction (Fibre [5719]), a sacred birth scene (Noed Deux) and an on-going Kafkaesque metamorphosis (Isometric).