An encounter dealing with the compositional issues of Franck Bedrossian (1971) and Raphaël Cendo (1975), moderator: Omer Corlaix, producer for France Musiques.

Saturation leads to the idea of excess. Would a saturated sound be an excessive sound ? A sound that had abandoned its normal state ? Would it be « noised sound » ? Would a saturated sound be a contradictory sound that would negate itself ? Rock music, with the appearance of a new instrument – the electric guitar, has upset the balance between acoustic sound and synthetic sound. Saturation of sound, saturation of listening. Too much information about a sound, the aural impossibility of imagining it opens up a new horizon. Similarly, does not the increasing power of decibels with amateurs of black metal or hard rock result in the desire to incorporate oneself in the sound ? Can this attitude be compared with new forms of marking, of scarring the body as with, for example, piercing, thresholds of pain and audibility ?

Omer Corlaix : Introduction

Etienne Guillochet : Rock and saturation
References of broadcast extracts : Johnny Burnette the rock’n’roll trio – Train kept a rolling
Guitare : Paul Burlison 1956

Frank Bedrossian : Of monstrosity, from eye to ear

Nicolas Darbon : From saturation to chaos

Raphaël Cendo : The saturation parameters

Nicolas Brémaud : From saturation to sound interference, from jazz to world music