Created in 2011 for the radio show Tapage Nocturne presented by Bruno Letort on France Musique, and completed during the summer 2012, Smooth Operator is inspired from work produced by the two artists for the movie Carré Blanc (2011), directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti. This “dystopian” science fiction full-length movie (describing an anti-utopian universe like the movies THX 1138 or Soylent Green) called for a futuristic society oddly similar to ours, in which all collective spaces were equipped with a soundtrack composed of natural sounds and electronic manipulations, supposed to cancel out the conscience of its inhabitants. Therefore, the sound piece recalls in an abstract way the figure of a strange operator who, from his control room, creates aural landscapes aiming to manipulate the minds.
Half of the proceeds from this imaginative, jazz-influenced electronic EP from A Model Kit go to Emigration for Action. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 5, 2023
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