“Jourdain and Paulus began their musical collaboration through shared projects with the Mille Plateaux/Force Inc. labels, each contributing to the Ultrablack of Music anthology and Paulus going on to make several videos for Automatisme tracks issued by the two labels. Yet none of these earlier collaborations showcased as profound an exploration of the two musicians’ respective practices as does Gap/Void. In early 2021, Paulus approached Jourdain with an idea for a new collaboration that would bring together audio/video material culled from his field recordings with Jourdain’s dancefloor sensitivities. The ambition would be to craft music that resubstantiates the ambling and adrenal trajectories of Paulus’ original mountain climbs and project the sensation of jumping over a gap into the void.” (Constellation Records)

von atmosphärischen Tracks dominiert sind, die vom Label als “an augmented version of [...] granulized ambient dub techno” beschrieben werden. Ferner heißt es: Jourdain adds elements of chaos and perturbation into algorithmic electronic music like static electricity is the presence of a disturbing body in a circuit”. Das Album erscheint als MC.

@ Mille Plateaux

“Terrain Reduction is a work inspired by Nicolas Bourriaud’s altermodernist theory. It reflects a similar sound of classic clicks & cuts music of Mille Plateaux, but is structured in a non-linear temporal space. By the use of amalgamate percussions and deep ambient landscapes in some of the tracks, Automatisme tries to make sound space apparent to an accumulation of layers through time, slowly building a topologic archipelago within the multi-temporal universe.” (G89 Records)