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DAVID VÉLEZ + BRUNO DUPLANT

Tell Me About the Outside

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 19, 2026 on all digital listening platforms

The title Tell Me About the Outside is taken from the dystopian sci-fi fiction novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

Tell Me About the Outside is not a description, it is a question repeating itself in the material. An attempt to listen to what presses from elsewhere, what holds, what resists without appearing. Sound emerges in fragments, as if found rather than composed. It carries weight, density, a sense of tension.

Alongside electronic processes, non-electronic sounds persist: physical gestures, contacts, residual noises whose origins remain partially opaque. They do not oppose the electronic layer, but complicate it, introducing friction and instability. Surfaces vibrate, retract, remain suspended. The music moves by slow displacement rather than development. Each gesture is measured, each texture maintained in a fragile equilibrium.

Silences are active, structural, charged, not empty, but load-bearing. What unfolds is not a form, but a state of continuous adjustment.

Electroacoustic practice here becomes a study of constraint. Acoustic and electronic materials are treated with the same attention to pressure and balance. Sounds are not placed, they are supported. They persist in a field of gravity, where inside and outside negotiate through pressure rather than movement, through tension rather than flow.

Tell Me About the Outside does not seek to describe the outside. It listens to its weight, its pull, its effect on the system. A music held in suspension, attentive to the moment before release.

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Catalog:
LINE_177
Format:
digital
Edition:
open edition
Release:
June 2026
Tracklist:

Tell Me About the Outside 1 (12:44)
Tell Me About the Outside 2 (14:09)
Tell Me About the Outside 3 (11:51)
Tell Me About the Outside 4 (05:19)

David Vélez & Bruno Duplant: field recordings & electroacoustic devices.
edited & mastered by Bruno Duplant at La salle de jeux.

cover photo by David Vélez.

David Vélez (PHD) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose sonic practice investigates the political intersections of sound, food, and everyday life. Grounded in listening as a critical sensibility, his work fosters empathy toward social and environmental diversity, challenging anthropocentric and colonial narratives while blurring boundaries between human and non-human, audible and inaudible. His socially and environmentally engaged projects have been presented at international festivals, exhibitions, and symposia, and published through leading platforms in experimental music and field recording.

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Bruno Duplant is a prolific composer and a musician living in the north of France. He has collaborated with many musicians around the globe and has also made solo works. His recordings have been published by various labels.

For Duplant, composing and playing music is similar to imagining, creating new spaces/realities, new entities which he calls fictions. But it is also a reflection on memory and on all that is invisible, intangible. His music, strongly inspired by the writing (Francis Ponge, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Perec, Mallarmé among others) and some artists/musicians/theorists (John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Eliane Radigue, Rolf Julius & Raymond Murray Schafer), is imbued with a sweet melancholy. His photographic practice and writing (novel & poetry), for some time, join his musical practice, in many crossings, for many exchanges.

INSTA: @brunoduplant

REVIEWS OF
Tell Me About the Outside

  • Tell Me About The Outside feels more like a confession of unknowing than a search for conclusive knowledge. You can be in workspace filled with people or a field full of other species and still feel utterly alone, no matter how much you reach out. Both Duplant and Vélez are credited with field recordings and electro-acoustic devices, but while their tools are similar, their perspectives are different. Whether working with sound or images, a melancholic awareness of loss pervades Duplant’s work. Vélez is less of a sentimentalist and more of a social scientist, and while his gaze probes outwards, the duo’s expanses of rustle and shimmer never transcend fragmentation. Nor, one supposes, do they want to. Duplant and Vélez strike a balance between clarity and mystery in which the sounds are never blurry, but you can’t always be certain what they are.
    —Dusted Magazine

  • Tell Me About the Outside to album zbudowany wokół pytania o to, co znajduje się poza polem słyszalności i co wywiera nacisk z zewnątrz. Materiał nie rozwija się tu wprost, lecz poprzez fragmenty, przesunięcia i delikatne napięcia. Dźwięki sprawiają wrażenie odnalezionych, a nie skomponowanych od zera – mają ciężar, gęstość i pozostają w stanie nieustannej, kruchej równowagi.

    Istotnym elementem albumu jest zestawienie elektroniki z dźwiękami o fizycznym, materialnym charakterze. Obok elektronicznych przetworzeń pojawiają się odgłosy powstające z dotyku, tarcia i kontaktu z przedmiotami oraz różnego rodzaju szmery i dźwiękowe ślady, których źródła nie zawsze da się jednoznacznie rozpoznać. Zamiast przeciwstawiać sobie oba światy, twórcy pozwalają im wzajemnie się przenikać, budując muzykę opartą na subtelnych napięciach i nieustannej równowadze. Równie ważną rolę odgrywa cisza – nie jako przerwa, lecz aktywny element kompozycji, który podtrzymuje jej strukturę i kieruje uwagą słuchacza.

    Za albumem stoją kolumbijski artysta i badacz David Vélez oraz Bruno Duplant, kompozytor i muzyk mieszkający na północy Francji. Vélez rozwija praktykę soniczną na styku dźwięku, jedzenia i codzienności, badając polityczne oraz środowiskowe aspekty słuchania. Duplant traktuje komponowanie jako tworzenie nowych przestrzeni i fikcji, a jego muzyka czerpie z literatury, pamięci i tego, co niewidzialne oraz nieuchwytne. Wspólny album obu twórców jest studium napięcia, zawieszenia i uważnego wsłuchiwania się w ciężar tego, co spoza.
    — anxiousmagazine.pl