These electronics, am I right? Seemingly unending possibilities. Never
know what you’re going to get out of them. That’s sort of the best part,
though, isn’t it? Always the potential for surprise! Even more interesting,
then, when you can get inside the machine, see what’s happening under the hood.
That’s where Blu Deux comes in. It’s
a concoction, an experiment, a constellation of sonic manufacture that begs
intense scrutiny. Sound artists Philippe Lamy and Maria Rose Sarri (aka
MonoLogue, aka Marie Rose, aka Moon RA) stretch the concept of “partnership” to
a weirdly logical destination, one where their collective minds can tap the
subatomic structures of sonic waveforms. I don’t even know what that means, the
words are just issuing from the electrical impulses in my own brain. And that’s
sort of what “Blue Two” (in English, sort of, not sure why that’s important to
you) is, the product of electrical impulses from two brains, captured by audio
software and manipulated into finished products. Patterns are fleeting – these
tracks are explorations of the rabbit holes down which sounds can travel, and
Lamy and Sarri are both adept navigators of these metaphorical tunnels. They
barely bounce off the walls! That’s saying something – these are pretty narrow
spaces. Anyway, the seemingly unending possibilities of electronics must be
contained at points within a finite space, and there’s only so much magnetic
tape within a plastic cassette shell, so Blu
Deux has to unfortunately begin and end. There’s no infinite cycle to hitch
a ride to or echo chamber to report back. No matter how hard Lamy and Sarri
try, they are bound by the limits of time and space, of physics. At least we
get a snapshot, a slice of time, to reveal what they’re capable of.
--Ryan Masteller