Brussels-based musician Roméo Poirier uses over a thousand accidental or thrown away recordings from studio archives and turns them into a brilliant collage of sounds. Taking various odd bits of studio conversations, count offs, miscellaneous musician talk, false starts, and countless other moments that were meant to be left on the cutting room floor, Poirier turns sounds a listener was never supposed to hear into an engaging and very rewarding release. John Cage believed all sounds are music and that music is everywhere, and Poirier reinforces that idea by turning and manipulating these fragments into compositions that are strangely moving. Finding music in the mundane and value in the disregarded is a risky notion because oftentimes junk truly is junk, but Poirier’s ability to reconceptualize the often routine and sometimes incredibly dull day in the studio into a stand-alone piece of exceptional music is impressive.

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