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Bastien Pons - Blinded

Bastien Pons is a French sound artist and black-and-white photographer whose work fuses auditory and visual worlds into deeply immersive experiences. Trained in musique concrete under Bernard Fort, he approaches sound as texture, contrast, and emotion — much like he does in his photography.

His compositions blur the line between ambient minimalism, industrial noise, field recordings, and sonic abstraction. More than tracks, they are sonic sculptures — raw, slow-burning, introspective spaces. Influenced by artists such as Art Zoyd, Lustmord, Andy StoM, Coil, SPK, Esplendor Geometrico, Murcof, Swans, 2kilos&more, The Residents, he develops a personal, grainy language that speaks to presence, silence, and memory.

Pons doesn’t compose to entertain — he builds rooms for the listener to inhabit. His sound is tactile. Fragile. Cinematic. It doesn’t demand attention — it rewards surrender.

Blinded is Bastien Pons’ debut album: a seven-track exploration of perception, memory, and the emotional weight of silence. It’s not made of songs — it’s made of sonic environments that emerge, breathe, and disintegrate.

Composed using field recordings, drones, processed textures, distorted vocal traces, and ambient decay, Blinded unfolds like black-and-white photography developed in slow motion. The album doesn’t aim to comfort or resolve. Instead, it invites the listener to slow down, to enter a space where sound is not decoration, but matter — where silence is as present as noise.

Each track is an introspective fragment:

- a broken mantra (Black Clouds),

- a cinematic descent (Blinded),

- a fractured confession (I Did Not Kill Her),

- a spectral prayer (Et Si Un Jour).

What holds it all together is restraint, physicality, and a refusal to conform. Blinded is not an album made to fit playlists — it’s a piece of sonic architecture for those who still listen with intention.

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