Published
Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 02:14
- When Time Splits was recorded at the Louvre and will be released in late April.
Mikhaïl Rudy and Jeff Mills will release When Time Splits: Live At Auditorium Du Louvre, Paris through Axis Records in late April.
The Detroit techno innovator and the classical pianist appeared at the Louvre for the Duos Ephémères concert on February 6th, 2015, performing a live score for L'Enfer. a never-finished 1964 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Mills speaks on the temporal themes explored by the collaboration, saying "the process required numerous discussions and meetings (with Rudy). Obscure ideas and visions about what time meant had to be laid out and imagined before we could proceed on dissecting the subject to show in the art forms of music and visual imagery how times could be represented in tangible ways." Rudy lists several 20th-century composers, such as Messiaen and Cage, as primary influences for his role in the collaboration.
Mills has explored techno's overlap with classical music in the past. The 2006 Blue Potential CD and DVD release documented his live collaboration with the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra. He also recently announced Light From The Outside World, a scheduled performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. This year also saw Mills release another imagined soundtrack, this time for Fritz Lang's sci-fi silent film, Woman In The Moon.
Tracklist
01. Landscape Abstracts
02. Face Verses Face
03. Time Mechanic
04. Scream
05. Black And White
06. Promising Calm
07. The Eternal Burning Beauty Of Fire
08. Impossible Love
09. Psychedelic
10. Wagner Encounter
Axis Records will release When Time Splits: Live At Auditorium Du Louvre, Paris in late April 2015.