Adrien Trybucki

Eksp – like an exhalation – relies on breath, on this raw material that precedes any sound. The trumpet is treated as a source of primitive energy, between raw emission, tense flow, and rhythmic bursts ; the electronics capture, prolong, and diffract the thickness of the instrument’s timbre, in a logic of amplifying the trace, but always as if it emerged from inside the body of the instrument. The work is based on loops of expansion and contraction, where the material is constantly saturated then emptied and where the material dilates, retracts, until exhaustion. In the end, perhaps only air remains, the memory of an extinguished breath, and that faint vibration mistaken for silence.