Sébastien Hayez & Thierry Arnal shares both interests in visual art and music, Hayez as a graphic designer(Gnaw, Second Rope…) and music lover, Arnal as a composer (Amantra, Scorched Earth Policy Lab...) and a contemporary artist creating collages and paintings.
In 2002, Hayez start experimenting with his abstract digital art converting graphics into graphic scores. The result was raw files of pure frequencies, cutted and pasted, like a collage, into a video software, producing 20 minutes and 7 tracks.
In November 2018, Arnal found that these tracks were a raw material for composing a new project, only modifying the sounds in order to produce a postapocalyptic soundscape.
The duo now want to explore the relation between picture and sound with this extending project : HAST.
A comp with 28 tracks, many extended ones, from some of the best current noisemakers, for a fantastic cause? How could you NOT buy this??? Great, great stuff. Mason Jones
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