Corentin Boubay - Signal

Apr 3

Corentin Boubay unveils his first EP Dust Logic on Pregnant Void, an exploration born from a three-year research cycle on the aesthetics of ruins and the technological obsolescence. This collection emerged in the stillness of his studio-laboratory, through a transformative process of gleaning, deep listening, and the "maintenance sensible" of scientific instruments from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

In this work, the machine is no longer a simple tool, but a living partner. Through the prism of Dust Logic, Corentin treats obsolescence, decay, and residues as speculative archives - where the dust of the analogue world is re-imagined through digital textures. Inspired by the thought of Donna Haraway, these compositions invite us to "stay with the trouble" of our damaged planet, finding a strange resonance in the friction between the permanence of matter and the fragility of the signal. Each composition is a tribute to the power of the fragment and the beauty of failure, creating a space where the "non-living" is given a voice.

May Dust Logic offers listeners a place to drift within ruins, to listen to the vibrations of the obsolete, and to find a new narrative within the shards of our technological memory.

Special thanks and gratitude to Olorun and Clarence Rise for breathing new life into these textures, their creative reflections on cohabitation and resurgence resonate deeply within the soul of this project. My sincere thanks to Marc Basler (Assistant Engineer in Instrumentation) and the Physics of Membranes and Soft Matter team at the CNRS, for their invaluable technical guidance and for opening the doors to the memory of their instruments.