Each Morning of the World #06
Southeast Asia PhoNographic Mornings #12/20
Phnom Penh ~ Cambodia
«Pool Days»
David Oppetit
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The different sequences were recorded in and around Phnom Penh (Cambodia) during the "presidential" election period; Day & night. From June 2017 to Jully 2018.
The result is a particular dynamic, a certain sleepiness in places, a crowd, sirens, helicopters in others.
We have here a certain documentary part: last demonstration of the opposition party before is total prohibition and the putting in prison of its leaders, until the counting of the ballot papers. These documents represent for me an important aspect of the evolution and the recent political organization of this country. This election, in the end, was widely and internationally criticized.
The resulting editing is sometimes dry, while breaking. The erent dogs are all around. Sirens, dogs, walkie talkies, television are just as many sound objects that allow me to enter a more musical aspect of the composition.
No revolution or "Cambodian spring" this time. As a drowsiness and as a kind of uncomprehention, a chain of events and rooting that nothing seems to shake.
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David Oppetit
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"Composer, sound artist, I have evolved in the field of improvised music and contemporary art for fifteen years, which has led me to perform and work in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. I directed the B.Bung Record Label and the Tapis Vert Art Gallery in Marseille. I Practice field recording for a long time which allowed me to work also for cinema, documentary and radio. Today my skills and my research turns me also to work as lecturer at university for sound art in Cambodia and as sound designer and consultant for different projects such as sound design for architecture and radio journalism."
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