Erotic listening with Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez, 18 f\u00e9vrier 2016<\/p>\n
The renowned illustrateur sonore presents a party playlist inspired by the secret sex ceremonies of \ufffcCatherine Robbe-Grillet<\/p>\n
Text Olivia Singer<\/p>\n
There are few occasions as charged with secrecy as the Sadean ceremonies orchestrated by 85-year-old dominatrix Catherine Robbe-Grillet. From her Normandy ch\u00e2teau, she directs her disciples in complex interplays of sexual power; rituals designed to liberate one\u2019s most transgressive fantasies from the confines of the imagination and make them real. The widow of esteemed writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, there is something determinedly artistic about Catherine\u2019s own practice: it exists outside financial exchange (she feels payment would refigure the power dynamic) and her most extreme theatrics are available to only a few acolytes. Hers is a vocation, not a profession.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the aesthetic of these ceremonies has something very cultural, very sophisticated about it,\u201d explains renowned illustrateur sonore Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez, who has designed this issue\u2019s soundtrack in homage to these erotic occasions, inspired by Lina Mannheimer\u2019s documentary on Catherine Robbe-Grillet\u2019s life, The Ceremony. \u201cTo look so deeply inside yourself, inside your fantasies, is something I find very interesting. There\u2019s something artistic about it, in a way. Something pure.\u201d<\/p>\n
This sadomasochistic aesthetic \u2013 of almost overwrought intensity and the complete sacrifice of power \u2013 is reflected throughout Sanchez\u2019s selection of tracks. \u201cIt is not a sensitive sentiment,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is over the top, but there is something poetic within it.\u201d Opening with the fragments of the Divine Liturgy that are incorporated within Jocelyn Pook\u2019s Masked Ball, we are invited into a sacred world of almost spiritual purity, taken through the furious aggression of Mayhem\u2019s black metal and into the orgasmic intensity of KTL before the relief of Elysian Fields. It is a journey that mirrors the frenzied passions of the ceremonies themselves; a narrative exploration of human desire and devotion.<\/p>\n
1. MASKED BALL (1999 Extended Mix), by Jocelyn Pook, from Flood
\n2. ARRIVAL OF THE TRAINER, by Stephen O\u2019Malley, from Eternelle Idole
\n3. OPENING SCENE: \u201cMEG\u00c9RKEZT\u00dcNK\u201d, by B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k, from Bluebeard\u2019s Castle
\n4. ILLUMINATE ELIMINATE, by Mayhem, from Ordo Ad Chao
\n5. THE CENTRE OF YOUR HEART, by Swans, from Children of God\/World of Skin
\n6. QUIERO IRME, by Mecanica Popular, from \u00bfQu\u00e9 Sucede Con El Tiempo?
\n7. AENIGMA MESSIAH, by Violet Poison, from Aenigma Messiah
\n8. SWEET SURPRISE, by Chris \u2018n\u2019 Cosey, from Sweet Surprise
\n9. SILVER SAND AND BOXES OF MOULD, by Helena Hauff, from Discreet Desires
\n10. LE VALSE DE MARIENBAD, by Francis Seyrig, from L\u2019Ann\u00e9e Derni\u00e8re \u00e0 Marienbad
\n11. WICKED WAY, by KTL, from KTL IV
\n12. LA SVEGLIA, by Alessandro Cortini, from Risveglio
\n13. LES ODALISQUES, by Tuxedomoon, from The Ghost Sonata
\n14. MVT IV: ADRIFT, by B\u00e9rang\u00e8re Maximin, from Infinitesimal
\n15. LES AMOURS PERDUES, by Elysian Fields, from Sombre<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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