ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The "No Paranoïa" project consists in ca. fourteen pieces, mostly written by Christophe Monniot & I, some with Denis Charolles, and a few
with Pierre-Yves Macé. They were recorded and produced in Paris between 1999 and 2002.
As different as some of those pieces may be from
some others, they were all made with similar production methods. There are two kinds of trakcs: the solo pieces (saxophone
only) and the collective pieces ( with mainly drums, along with sometimes
other instruments such as bass guitar or trombone ).
Basically, most pieces were recorded in what
some people might call weird conditions : in extremely reverberant places,
in
corridors... one was even recorded in a bathroom. Some solo pieces were recorded
in normal studios, with only the direct sound and a multieffect. Various
microphones were used, preferably in devious ways.
With only one exception, all the pieces have
been heavily edited afterwards, mainly using ProTools, and sometimes
a Sonic Solution station. Generally, everything has been drastically processed,
using all kinds of machines : several sorts of reverbs, several sorts of
compressors, distortion from every machine at hand... etc.
