Laure Boer

Available on cassettes and on these digital platforms

With Carnet de Correspondance, released on cassette by smallforms, Laure Boer presents her latest musical research around a unique musical setup she has been developing for several years, combining a Đàn Bầu (Vietnamese monochord), a modified German Post rotary-dial telephone, and light-sensitive oscillators built into stones and oysters.

At the centre of the album is the Đàn Bầu, whose single string becomes the starting point for an exploration of sonic textures, extended playing techniques and electronic transformations. The sound becomes a wild animal or a complaint, a voice that screams or a song with a soft, cuddling, swaying motion. Repetitions, echoes and fragmented conversations run throughout the music, shifting between individual voices and a sense of collective expression.

Carnet de Correspondance (Correspondence Diary) unfolds as an overview of a week, a report of all kinds of conversations in various contexts, moments of grace and moments of hustle. Tension and irritation are always close by, as if grace and hustle were two sides of the same experience. The music navigates between expression and abstraction, between intimate gestures and unruly outbursts — like fragments of an ongoing conversation that never quite settles.

Released November 11, 2026

Music by Laure Boer
Design and illustration: www.banktm.de
Recorded at Château Rouge Vienna
Tape dubbing: collab with transformermusic
Produced by Small Forms