Liles/Maniac "Darkening Ligne Claire" by Archaeological Records published on 2019-01-18T18:42:18Z “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” is a line, a fine line traced by a graphic gesture. A start, a beginning… and an end. “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” is the human ability to hide meaning instead of unveiling “sense” to reveal “answers”. We delved into Christophe Szpajdel’s photographic archive (he is both a logo designer and a forest engineer). Idea: synthesis requires mediation, a process that simultaneously builds and destroys… We selected a series of images that could evoke these notions, notions of “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE”. …the intermediate passage between observation and design. We chose and printed – in a 24 cm x 30 cm format – fourteen shots in order to build seven diptychs. We then named the art, borrowing the titles from Christophe Szpajdel’s past creations. Herein we accidentally found, hiding in every syntactical combination, a fitting narrative: I EMPEROR II ENTHRONED III FLAGELLUM DEI IIII SLAUGHTER MESSIAH IIIII SOULBURN IIIIII WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM IIIIIII NOCTUARY The selected photographs inspired Andrew Liles and Sven Fuzz Kristiansen (aka Maniac) to create music. To blur sound, to stretch and shrink time. Andrew Liles manifested the “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” concept by manipulating Maniac’s narration of the titles above. Using only the sound of Maniac’s voice through various digital and analogue processes, seven tracks, each seven minutes long, were created. Christophe Szpajdel drew a logo for the duo - Liles/Maniac. Each track was lathe cut on a single sided transparent vinyl 10” leaving the blank side of the disc on which to engrave the logo. “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” was born. “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” is a collective and collection of ideas manifest in a succinct yet ambiguous work of multi-media art. “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” is an evaluation and the reasoning of graphic art, yet is beyond mere graphics. “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” is the discolouration of sound. The sonic and visual manipulation of the air around us. Recognisable yet unintelligible words. Words with and without “context” and “meaning”. Five copies of the “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE” box have been produced. One for Christophe Spzpajdel: the Designer, one for Andrew Liles: the Composer, one for Sven Fuzz Kristiansen: the Singer, one for Archaeological Records: the Curator. One for sale. – The exhibition, including a live performance by Liles/Maniac and a presentation by Christophe Szpajdel will start touring from December 1st, 2018 in Firenze. This box is not a catalogue of the exhibition but the exhibition itself. This box is “DARKENING LIGNE CLAIRE”. Genre Electronic Rock Contains tracks WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM by Archaeological Records published on 2019-01-15T11:26:13Z SLAUGHTER MESSIAH by Archaeological Records published on 2019-01-15T11:26:17Z NOCTUARY by Archaeological Records published on 2019-01-15T11:26:19Z FLAGELLUM DEI by Archaeological Records published on 2019-01-15T11:26:22Z EMPEROR by Archaeological Records published on 2019-01-15T11:26:26Z
