Rosnet, Jean-Emmanuel

Rosnet, Jean-Emmanuel

Les Rivières Sont des Chemins qui Marchent

Not Not Fun

The third collection by French abstractionist Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet was developed during a residency in Thiers and the Dore Valley in central France, which was once a thriving hub of paper mills, workshops, and tanneries powered by the Dore and Durolle rivers. Inspired by the region’s abandoned factories, and visions of the workers who once animated these places, Rosnet sought to echo their gestures and rhythms, crafting mosaics of intimacies and disorientation with modular synth, tape loops, and elemental sounds: flowing water, clattering machines, resonant metal.The title translates as “rivers are roads that move,” alluding to the music’s muse of transience and absence, erosion and exploration, melancholy and drift. It’s art as deep listening divining rod, attuned to the traces of memory murmuring from cracks, rust, soil, and subcurrents. Eight glimpses through the veil, equal parts tribute and eulogy. Mastered by Jared Carrigan. Art and design by Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet.

Rosnet, Jean-Emmanuel

Les Alentours

Not Not Fun

French constructionist Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet describes his latest suite of sound collages as “improvised landscapes and odes to everyday moments,” woven from a patchwork of modular synthesis, tape techniques, resampling, and digital processing. Les Alentours evokes overlapping dimensions of its creator’s ‘surroundings’ – physical, metaphysical, sonic, psychic. Flickering electronics and hymnal hazes murmur within a web of restless ASMRbient dissociatives: crackling, pitter patter, plucked strings, smeared horns. Recorded both before and during a relocation from Lyon to the rolling hills and glacial valleys of the Livradois-Forez natural park two hours west, the album’s nine pieces capture a mood of whispered transience and unfamiliar thresholds, crafted from vignettes of “poetic intimacy in which to become lost and disappear.