christopher bissonnette

kranky

cover: KR118

In Between Words CD

  1. Provenance
  2. A Touch Of Heartbreak
  3. Orffyreus Wheel
  4. Tempest
  5. The Colonnade
  6. Jour Et Nuit

Cultivating an increasing interest in field recording and found sounds, Christopher Bissonnette has woven spatial ambience into In Between Words, his new compositions brought to you by Kranky, while still concentrating on moments of near empty space between ‘instruments’.

Inspired by the continuous din, the constant low-level hum of urban background noise, interspersed with all manner of mechanically created sounds, Bissonnette finds in this a near-melodic soundtrack to his daily life. On the final track “Jour Et Nuit”, this seems most apparent as one can almost hear sparse traffic on a highway in the sweeping long tones.

Using orchestral sound sources as well as recording his own sounds to manipulate and process, Bissonnette has crafted a symphony of six movements, with melodies as ghostly apparitions that fade in and out of view. Recorded as spontaneous mixes, these compositions maintain a sense of organic fluidity while creating passages of escalating tension.