Marc Baron – Soleil-Néon

Digital only release on Penultimate Press. Order via Bandcamp

Marc Baron (born France, 1981) lives and composes music in Paris.

Soleil-Néon is a nine-part piece composed in 2024 — a set of examinations of the electroacoustic machinery of the studio. The title is taken from William Burroughs’ Soft Machine.

Demagnetisation fields, magnetic corrosion (chilled, burnt, striated), over-amplified machines, dismantled spring reverbs, looped dictaphones, amplified hammers and throat, giant tape loops passing through doors, an old cassette carrying a horse-riding carousel, traces of the first wire recording, and a stubborn synthesiser.

Recording points multiply: inside machines, through microphones embedded in the body, and through movements outside the studio toward the sound source.

Part documentation, part delirious construction, the piece captures the activity of the studio itself — wiring, assembling, wandering — treating this chaotic and fragile electro-mechanical system with care.

No digital elements are used until the final edit.