Toi même tu sais, cette période électorale pré-présidentielle-2017 est un plaisir quotidien. J’ai eu le malheur de vouloir m’intéresser aux candidats via Twitter et ça m’a rappelé la superbe vidéo de Franck Lepage qu’un copain a eu le bon goût de me partager. Voulant être de bon goût, je te la partage à mon tour:

Les bots Twitters étant apparemment un passe-temps dont j’ai du mal à me défaire (Je prends quasi l’entière responsabilité de la création de ces bots : @PassionSirene, @PassionTocsin, @PassionMouton,@pdesproges), je me suis dit qu’il manquait dans ce monde les pendants algorithmiques des candidats à la présidentielle. Sauf une, pour certaines raisons. Les voici, dans le désordre:

• Emmanuel Macron: @macron_ebooks
• François Fillon: @fillon_ebooks
• Jean-Luc Mélenchon: @jlm_ebooks
• Philippe Poutou: @poutou_ebooks
• Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: @nda_ebooks
• Benoit Hamon: @hamon_ebooks

Et le compte meta: @2017_ebooks qui RT chaque tweete, de chaque compte.

Un  peu comme un débat sur TF1, je ne les ai pas tous inclus (car je te l’avoue, la Flemme c’est comme la Force, c’est puissant). Petit florilège:

https://twitter.com/poutou_ebooks/status/851858194779516930

https://twitter.com/fillon_ebooks/status/851450216570134529

https://twitter.com/jlm_ebooks/status/851480380964261889

https://twitter.com/nda_ebooks/status/851435032401104896

https://twitter.com/macron_ebooks/status/851027064270487552

https://twitter.com/hamon_ebooks/status/850952012992794624

Alors voilà, on clone les hommes politiques, on injecte leurs paroles publiques dans des robots, et un algorithme génère des phrases surréalistes.

Qu’est-ce qu’on apprend ?

Je ne sais pas trop, mais en tout cas, je me marre bien !

Je suis tombé le week-end dernier sur ce bijou musical.

Dans cette vidéo, Daniel Starr-Tambor (portant fièrement un joli combo barbe-casquette) dévoile une création unique : le palindrome musical le plus long du monde. Oui oui. Grace à un tour de passe-passe solfégique (dont je t’avoue ne rien maitriser), il assigne à chaque planète une note de musique différente.

Mercure sera la note Si.

Pluton sera un Do# à 2 octaves et des poussières plus haut.

(Entre les deux, regarde la partition au milieu de la vidéo).

S’ensuit une autre preuve que ce garçon est plutôt malin.

Il calcule mathématiquement la fréquence de répétition de chaque note grace à une équation de son cru: période orbitale de la planète * 15779059,2 = fréquence de répétition. (oui monsieur).

L’alignement musicalo-planétaire  finissant par arriver (en tout cas je lui fais confiance), la pièce se transforme en palindrome.

Magnifique, je te dis !

Last year, I started what I would like to become a personal tradition. I decided to create a playlist that would describe my prominent emotions of the year that just passed. The creative process would be a way for me to look back at the year, both emotionaly and musically. I was afraid though that it would be an endless process and that I would end up putting up an endless collection of tracks without any meaning. I needed some limitations.

I always liked the length limitation of vinyls. Back in the days, album were also designed with that limit in mind and you could really feel how it influenced the construction of the album. The original LP record had a maximum playing time of nearly 45 minutes, or 22 minutes by side. I decided to take this restriction and to add another one: Only 4 tracks by side.

These constaints gave me a framework which enabled me to focus myself on the most important phases I went through during the year. I added a soft constraint as well: Tracks should be the one I listened to during this year.

Without further ado, here is my 2014 retrospective.

2014 retrospective: “Mont-Royal LP”

https://soundcloud.com/marcw/sets/mont-royal-2014

Side 1:

• Pachanga Boys – Black Naga (Hippie Dance)
• Flore – Numen (POLAAR)
• Suuns – Music won’t save you (Secretly Canadian)
• Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness (Polygram)

Side 2:

• Flore – Random (POLAAR)
• Parquet Courts – Ducking & Dodging (What’s Your Rupture?)
• Run The Jewels – Love Again (Akinyele Back) (feat. Gangsta Boo) (Mass Appeal)
• The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Parlophone)

The 2013 retrospective is still available on
SoundCloud.

Well the year isn’t over yet but I wanted to write down what inspired me in the past 12 months. Like you, I’m always looking around for interesting work to nourish my mind. Sign of times, I haven’t read many books. It’s been mostly an audio/video year. I watched a hell lot of TV though. Netflix doesn’t help in that matter… I’ve had a huge interest in comedy. I discovered the american alt-comedy scene and have been struck by their creativity and blunt thoughts.

Stand-Up specials

• Reggie Watts – Why Shit So Crazy
• Sarah Silverman – We Are Miracles
• Marc Maron – Thinky Pain
• Louis CK – Oh My God

TV Shows

Once again, comedy was a central theme in my choices. I stopped watching other
shows that I won’t name here.

• Peep Show
• Louie
• Maron
• Freaks and Geeks
• Mad Men

Movies

I watched other great movies than those present in this list, but I prefer to
keep it short.

• La Grande Bellezza
• Jodorowsky’s Dune 

Music

This year was really interesting on the music side. I started buying vinyls
again and went back to my turntables. I discovered really good house and techno
tracks, but in the end I prefer to list these indie bands.

• The Acid
• Django Django
• Parquet Courts
• Nothing

Club Night

Laurent Garnier at Stereo Night Club in Montreal. This club has the best sound system. Period. Forget the clinical coldness of a Funktion One system. This one has a warm and beautiful
sound. Laurent Garnier did a good set, sticking perfectly to the club’s atmosphere.

Books

I haven’t read much. Or not as much as I’d like. Or maybe too much. My whole days are spent reading stuff. Be it code, articles, emails, social medias. At the end of the day, I much prefer watching and listening than reading

• Blankets by Craig Thompson

Exhibitions

• The Enclave by photographer Richard Mosse at FOAM.
• Marcel Wenders: Pinned Up at Stedelijk Museum.

Does this post need a conclusion? Naaah. You’ll do fine without.