A Hesitant Fold

His sonic palette is vast, ranging from huge deep bass to razorsharp high frequency tones, and all manner of microsounds… the end sound is purist: precise and ultra-clean, almost scientific. The format is minimaland spacious, reflecting an all white modernist sonic architecture, a fully engineered and designed space that is mapped out by the frequencies themselves. This measured emptiness becomes a gallery for the presentation of the sounds that are the artist’s fascination… each sound is presented as a sculptural object, each a work of art in itself that suggests a quality of individuality… the physical space is paramount: it is where these sounds interact. Speaker placement, room acoustics, and the orientation of the listener play active roles… the sound speaks only of itself and the act of listening.
—Head Magazine, UK

8 tracks of quiet pulses and waves, once again best listened to with your headphones on. It is remarkable how Chartier’s music has its own very personal character. In that sense he is defenitely on the same level as Ikeda or Noto. But in comparison with them, Chartier’s music has got an intimacy, that is not easily associated with this kind of music. This is probably partly due to the low volume of the tracks, but also has something to do with the way his work sounds. The stereo panorama is extensively used for all those pulses and bleeps and there are no FX to distract from the original synthetic sounds. So it is the pure nature of this synthetic material, that creates the intimacy, because of its directness. The tracks have a slow and steady development, with some breaks here and there, but not any harsh ones. Chartier makes very clever use of the different qualities of pulses and waves, alternating or combining them in such a way, that their character is changing all the time. And that is exactly why this CD is so fascinating: he is able to make strong compositions with a very limited amount of material. And I think that deserves a lot of credit.
—Vital Weekly, The Netherlands

…high quality challenging pure-tone works of individual thumbprint, a task not as easily feted these days as one would assume. Repetitive pulse-sound akin to slown down international code transmissions through miles of distilled water (for dispersion effects), not for the faint and certainly not for the impatient. Remarkable.
—Hrvatski, US