Magali Babin
petit jardin
by Magali Babin
(from her CD, Chemin de fer)
Iron road…
Multiples, plurishapes, ductiles.
Alkalis and cleavages.
A rather small electrical object: touching, rubbing.
Nearly eroding another one from daily life.
Wherever there’s a cavity and a game, something
is generated. Wiredrawn, enameled voices are born.
Rustling, hissing, shining, screeching, tinting,
trembling, growling alloys…
A guitar pick-up; a paella; or a rope, or
an aluminum cone,
or…
One might say: chisel and mineral
The rest, i.e. the studio work, recording, mixing, only
serves as extraction cage, hammer, anvil and foundry;
and then as pedestal, or a frame where to place
these carved shapes, in order to see them in a
new light…
Metallurgy? Sculpture?
Yes, in a sense.
But not strictly, because despite the presence of
Matter and mineral, they ‘have more than one way
to them. Out of inertia they yield but appearances
and false testimonies…”
So there’s a road; but one with many lanes
(…)
‘All that is infinite between sounds and ideas’ (…)
Mario Gauthier, Executive Producer for Chemin de fer
Magali Babin biography:
Magali Babin is an artist who has been fiddling with sonic matter for quite a few years now, in solo or with her accomplices Alexandre St-Onge and Éric Létourneau. A central figure of risky improv in Montréal, it is not without pride that we can announce that her first solo CD, Chemin de fer, was released on the No Type label in April 2002.
