{"title":"Automatisme","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutomatisme is the electronic music project of Quebec-based producer William Jourdain. Since 2011, he has self-released a brilliant series of albums and tracks under this moniker, exploring various intersections of drone, glitch, dub techno, ambient, electro-acoustic and noise. With a background in art history from UQAM (Universté du Québec à Montréal), Jourdain combines his passion for digital visual art with abstract landscape and op art aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting with site-specific field recordings, Automatisme samples, processes, signal bends and transforms this source material into soundscapes charting a broad spectrum spanning minimalist pulse to methodically additive beat. His compositions also feature stacked-tone maximalism, spatial drone and arrhythmic ambient\/noise elements. Influenced by pioneers such as Pan Sonic\/Mika Vainio, Stefan Betke (Pole), and Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), Jourdain's work pays homage to the early works of these electronic music progenitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJourdain has been busy since 2011 with over 30 releases on labels like Constellation Records (home for Godspeed you! Black Emperor), Force Inc.\/Mille Plateaux, Neologist Productions, Liberation Through Hearing, Outlines and Dream Disk Lab. He has performed at renowned festivals including Mutek (CA), ELEKTRA (CA), Suoni Per Il Popolo (CA), Pop Montreal\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alter-1","title":"Alter-","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the Automatisme - \u003ci\u003eAlter-\u003c\/i\u003e album. I am inspired by how the art historian Nicolas Bourriaud defines the Altermodernism. Bourriaud understands the term \"Alter\" as a way to mean \"other\". The altermodernism would be another modernity that is different from the avant-garde modernism and post-modernism. More precisely, this is a new paradigm from the XXIe century with alternative ways to motivate artists to be more radical in art by traveling in the physical and digital world, by cutting the frontiers and by creating other time lines. I apply the \"alter\" subject to time and to landscape and those, to the rhythmic and the ambient glitch music\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mille Plateaux","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50426061324619,"sku":"1139105","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d4cfa31b-6b1c-475d-9695-7d0be2617ac7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726799662"},{"product_id":"momentform-accumulations","title":"Momentform Accumulations","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebut album of rhythmic electronic\/glitch\/drone music from this Québec-based producer following several self released recordings and a live premiere at Mutek 2015. RIYL: Pan Sonic, Alva Noto\/Carsten Nicolai, Pole. CD in 100% recycled gatefold paperboard jacket. 180g LP audiophile pressing includes pull-out art print poster + 320kbps mp3 DL. Automatisme is the electronic music project of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec-based producer William Jourdain, who has been self-releasing a brilliant series of albums and tracks under this moniker since 2013, exploring various intersections of drone, dub techno, electronica, ambient, electro-acoustic, and noise. Always taking site-specific field recordings as its starting point, and with nominal reliance on synthesizers, Automatisme samples, signal bends, and transforms his source material into deliberate and elemental soundscapes of white and pink noise, spatial drone and methodically additive beats. Momentform Accumulations compiles much of Jourdain's most recent and most rhythmically-driven work. We're very excited to be issuing this as Automatisme's first official full-length physical album release - and while Jourdain continues to pursue his studies in Art History, his practice as a painter and installation artist, and his work at Saint-Hyacinthe's excellent Fréquences record store, we also anticipate diverse and fascinating future recordings from Automatisme that will stake out a multi-faceted identity for this viscerally engaged young producer. (We also urge interested ears to check out Automatisme on Bandcamp for previous recordings that similarly reveal the project's multiplicity.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494430052683,"sku":"405953","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/12ddb1c2-b228-4a22-8636-20061932ee48_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1730805153"},{"product_id":"transit-1","title":"Transit","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuebec producer and sound artist Willam Jourdain presents his 2nd Constellation full-length, following the acclaimed 2016 release \u003ci\u003eMomentform Accumulations\u003c\/i\u003e. Building out his modular synthesis racks and amassing new field recordings, Jourdain has plunged Automatisme deeper into experimentation with \u003ci\u003eTransit\u003c\/i\u003e, his second full-length for Constellation. Once again the sonic material is all sourced from the field, with recordings captured in the forests and caves of rural Quebec, along with ex-urban “non-places” and various waiting rooms. A simulacrum of what Jourdain calls “the architecture and landscape of supermodernity” is rendered through generative and probability-based digital patches, creating a partially randomized ecosystem for his soundworld to unfold. The through-line on the \u003ci\u003eTransit\u003c\/i\u003e album is an oscillating tempo that rises and falls like a shifting heart rate or ocean waves or a warped clock –heightening attention to the micro sampled glitch topography and white, pink and brown noise fields of these immersive, pointillist compositions. The pieces are never the same twice: \u003ci\u003eTransit\u003c\/i\u003e codifies one iteration of these exploratory and temporally unstable works, yielding a superb album of cerebral, enveloping, de-territorialized electronica that occupies a liminal space at the boundaries of ambient, glitch, dub and environmental sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - 180 Gram Vinyl - Includes 12”x24” Art Print Poster and Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50497677558091,"sku":"1041733","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/33b34bee-0da5-4a2f-a27d-d2f28af6bd2a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727730099"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_571fdf01_thumbnail_4096_7355cc15-8c8a-4023-8836-51b36eb92454.jpg?v=1726799644","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/automatisme.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}