Episode 37: QUANTUM BLUES - with France Jobin

France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) on the great Room40 label.We sat down in Montreal to discuss her formative sonic experiences, her origin in a blues band, her interest in physics, and a growing body of audio-visual work with Markus Heckmann.

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

France Jobin - “Superposition [excerpt]” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room40, 2024)

SP INTRO

Christopher Tyng - “Futurama Theme” (Futurama, 1999)

Pierre Henry / Michel Colombier - “Messe Pour Le Temps Présent: Psyché Rock” (Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart, Philips, 1968)

I8U (France Jobin) - “29 Palms [excerpt]” (29 Palms, Dragon’s Eye, 2010)

France Jobin + Fabio Perletta - “Parallel” (Mirror Neurons, Dragon’s Eye, 2015)

Son House - “Forever On My Mind” [1964] (Forever On My Mind, Easy Eye Sound, 2022)

Marc Nerenberg - “Cocaine Blues [edit]” (Live at the Yellow Door Hootenanny, Montreal, Nov 2023) 

The Twelve Bar Bluesband - “Life is Hard (when you play the blues)” (Live at bluesmoose Radio, 2014)

I8U -  “10³³CM [excerpt]” (10³³CM,  Room40, 2009)

France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu - “Sea Song IV” (RADIANCE II: Music for the Answer, Schwebung, 2016) 

France Jobin - “The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist” (The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist, Room40, 2021)

France Jobin - “Unified Quantum State” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room 40, 2024)

France Jobin - “f6e36b” (Hues, SUPERPANG, 2021)

France Jobin  - “Random” (Source of Uncertainty, Luminous Drift, 2022)

France Jobin + Richard Chartier - “DUO 4” (DUO, Matter, 2018)

France Jobin - “Casino Music” (Casino Music, 2023)

France Jobin - “EMS Synthi” (#evenmoresynthporn, 2020)

France Jobin - “A little buchla something​.​.​.” (A little buchla something​.​.​., 2022)

France Jobin - “Dégel” (Symbiose X - Dix Ans De Musiques Expérimentales - Ten Years Of Experimental Music, [walnut + locust] – wl076, Symbiose, 2022)

France Jobin - “Superposition [excerpt]” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room 40, 2024)

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.