France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu composed this seven-part sequence, rich with sublimated internal motion, as the score to a film by Cedrick Eymenier, titled *The Answer*. Released in 2016 as part of Mathieu’s Radiance series,
*Music for the Answer* opens with certain emotional intensity, a sense of expectation as the slow-motion sounds being to whirl. The recordings that follow more than rise to the occasion. The variety in the set is striking. There is the high-pitched whistle that serves as the through line amid “Sea Song V.” There are broken chimes on “The Answer,” those shards of glisten slowly merging into a nocturnal drone. There is the insect-like white noise cycling amid on “The Answer VII.” And there is what sounds like a irrevocably warped vinyl recording of horns in the dense, kaleidoscopic “Sea Song I.” Among all the tracks, texture is paramount, from soft shadings to hyper-detailed micro-fissures.
The trailer for Eymenier’s film is online. It’s been characterized as an “aquatic road movie,” and was shot Canal du Midi in the south of France:
France Jobin is a Montreal, Canada-based composer and curator, with albums on And/Oar, Line, Room 40, and other labels. Stephan Mathieu is a prolific German sound artist and musician who has recorded for 12k, Ritornell, Lucky Kitchen, and Editions Mego, among other labels. Both have exhibited numerous sound installation.
Album originally posted at [francejobin.bandcamp.com](https://francejobin.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-the-answer). More on Cedrick Eymenier’s The Answer at [cedrickeymenier.com](http://cedrickeymenier.com/index.php/videos/the-answer/). More from Jobin at her website, [francejobin.com](http://www.francejobin.com/), and Mathieu at [schwebung.bandcamp.com](https://schwebung.bandcamp.com).