Fumerolles: Rained-Out Predictions CS

Rained-Out Predictions is a collection of compositions made for live events between 2022 and 2025, using mostly the same system: a box of DIY modules, a Digitone, and some effects pedals. Recorded at home afterwards, this version of the previously performed tracks was kept half improvised, half predicted, punctuated with additional arrangements, but always with the idea of keeping it simple and shaky.

In my usual process of wanting to create useless soundtracks for nonexistent moments, every track started with a specific catastrophic vision: What would I play if I were witnessing a library heist? How would an apocalyptic rainfall of absurd-looking frogs sound on the windshield of a car? What music would giant ants be thinking about while building their organized architectures everywhere on Earth after societal collapse? What would happen if we all stopped running to catch the bus to work and just went to watch the sunrise instead? These tracks were made both in a hurry and extremely slowly, in an attempt to smooth out the current taste of apathy within these visions into an uplifting energy. Figuring out the hidden story might be irrelevant. - Frédérique Duval