The venerable record label sirr-ecords from Portugal offer a collection of electroacoustic, musique-concrète, and microsound artists honoring the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot. From the label’s Bandcamp site:
“With Brandon Labelle/Maria Nilsson, Toshiya Tsunoda, Julien Ottavi, Steve Roden, Paulo Raposo, Christof Migone and Stephen Vitiello. “Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in modern writing. Remembered from the few distant relates and a clandestine photograph taken in 1922 as being tall, thin and cadaverous in appearance — Blanchot chose reclusiveness and isolation and refusal, but his spectre lingers on over contemporary thinking. Blanchot has avoided interviews, photographs, and academic affiliations; public knowledge of his life consists of a handful of minor anecdotes and of inferences built around the appearance of his books and essays. Sirr invited a hand full of sound artists to deal with his ‘obscurity’.”
