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Sound engineer, musician, sound designer, and composer—particularly for documentary cinema—Brice Kartmann shifts his experience of image and narrative into a purely sonic realm. The album’s nine pieces function like autonomous organisms, each endowed with its own breath, internal tensions, and movement.

The sounds seem to emerge from a submerged environment, evoking the discovery of remnants from a civilization buried on the ocean floor: altered architectures, slow pulsations, distant signals. Here, the modular synthesizer is approached as a living environment rather than a simple instrument, revealing fragile balances and controlled drifts.

Field recordings—fragments of the real world—and sounds derived from sound synthesis intertwine without hierarchy. From their interaction emerges an unstable sonic material, both organic and mineral, deliberately blurring the boundary between captured sounds and generated ones.
Totem Flotté does not tell a story; it establishes a space for listening, somewhere between imaginary archaeology and sonic exploration, where each piece becomes a trace to be explored.