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BIOGRAPHY
Duane Pitre (originally from New Orleans) is a Brooklyn-based, avant-garde composer and performer. His current works explore both chaos and discipline—and the relationship that exists between the two. Pitre primarily works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonality, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships.
Composing primarily for acoustic and electro-acoustic instrumentation, Pitre has scored works for large String/Wind Ensembles, String Quintet, his own Bowed Harmonic-Guitar Ensemble, solo performers, among other instrument configurations. In 2008 Pitre started exploring simple electronic sounds and their role in a dualistic relationship with acoustic instruments, as well as utilizing them in his recent "tape" pieces.
Pitre has releases on Important Records, Trome Records, NNA, and Quiet Design, among others. He has appeared on compilations with artists such as Keith Rowe (AMM), Sir Richard Bishop, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jandek, and Thierry Muller/Ilitch. He recently curated and contributed a track to an upcoming Just Intonation compilation (Important Records), alongside Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman, Michael Harrison, Greg Davis, Charles Curtis, and others.
Pitre has presented his works in NYC at such spaces as Roulette, The Stone, Phillips de Pury & Co., St. Marks Church, The Knitting Factory, and ISSUE Project Room (where he was the Spring 2009 Artist in Residence). He has also performed in other cities across the U.S., as well as in Europe at Les Voûtes (Paris), St. Giles-in-the-Fields Church (London), and in Bristol, U.K.
In 2009, Pitre is planning more performances (national and abroad), a variety of releases, recording sessions, new works, and further exploration of electronic sound material.
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Ensemble works performers...
U.S.
Craig Colorusso, James Ilgenfritz, Gene Park, Brooke Gillespie, Steve Flato, Greg Davis, Byron Westbrook, Christopher McIntyre, Shannon Fields, Lauren Cecil, Isabel Castellvi, Chris Welcome, Amy Cimini, Emily Hilliard, Julianne Carney, Jeffrey Young, Jesse Peterson, Justin Wood, Emily Dufour, Chris Otto, Lathan Hardy, Morgan Packard, Casey Block, Frantz Loriot, Toby Aronson, Sara-Paule Koeller, Sequioa, James Jacobs, Tianna Kennedy, Tom Soloveitzik, Evan Rapport, Matty McDermott, Peter Hess, Daphne Carr, Hannah Kammerer, Kevin Thaxton, Veronica Stocker, Zachary Cooper, Annakalmia Traver, Lauren Servin, Christopher Diasparra, Jon DeRosa, Harry Rosenblum, Loren Dempster, Jessica Pavone, Eric Elterman.
France
Thierry Madiot, Silvia Tarozzi, Emilie Friedlander, Cyprien Busolini, Youen Cadiou, Jean Bordé, Deborah Walker, Fabrice Villard, Anaïs Moreau, Marie Tahon, Iván Solano, Pedro Bittencourt.
England
Oliver Barrett, Richard Thomas, Michelle So, James Blackshaw, Edward Brenton, Alys Hewer, Abraham Faure Mennen, Sophie Cooper, Emily Moore, Blue Monsoon, Kathy Hinde, Liam Kirby, Nina Wyllie, Steve Brett, Lea Piontek, Iain Morrison, George McKenzie, Joseph Grounds, Matthew Austin.
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Duane used to:
Play guitar in The Camera Obscura (of San Diego).
Skateboard professionally for Alien Workshop.
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