bernhard günter, kenneth kirschner, hervé castellani, keith berry, johannes heldén, miki yui, tomas phillips, steve roden, roel meelkop, alexandra & aeron, richard chartier , "automatic writing" de robert ashley, peter handke, witold gombrowicz, david lynch, maurice pialat, ingmar bergman, john cassavetes, robert bresson, spinoza, rudolf steiner,... marcel duchamps, michelangelo antonioni, pier paolo pasolini, michel françois, joëlle turlinckx... goethe (scientist), bauhaus (architecture and design), godard (pierrot le fou), gilles deleuze..., vaslav nijinski (1889-1950), michèle anne de mey, peter brook...
gus van sant, radu malfatti, morton feldman, giacinto scelsi, györgy ligeti, lars von trie, john cage, radiohead, tom yorke, constantin brâncuşi, david sylvian, sidsel endersen, steve mac queen (hunger),...
Sounds Like
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__ pierre gerard
'objects in mirror are closer than they appear' 2008
http://www.etlefeucomme.be
VITAL WEEKLY
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number 639
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week 33
PIERRE GERARD - OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR (MP3 by Et Le Feu Comme)
The second release is by the man from the label and its less audible. To hear it rightly I put on my headphones, which is something I hardly do. The two pieces are inspired by 'the light impact on a car wing mirror in motion' and non-driver Gerard has had the opportunity to observe this day and night. 'Light Of Day' is a very silent piece of sounds moving in and out of the mix, recorded at a very low volume. If microsound means nothing to you, then listen to these isolated sounds moving about in a sea of silence that slow is filled with sinewave like sounds. In 'Front Nights' there is more 'action', and here I think to recognize music instruments. Lots of hiss on some of these sounds, but throughout more happening than in the first piece. Both pieces require an intense listening session, but along the lines of Steve Roden and Roel Meelkop quite enjoyable microsound pieces. (FdW)
Address: http://www.etlefeucomme.be
_ pierre gerard
' voyage au centre ' 2007
un arbre en bois. belgique 006
cdr 60/60
VITAL WEEKLY============
number 600---------------------week 45
PIERRE GERARD - VOYAGE AU CENTRE
(CDR by Un Arbre En Bois)
From the man behind the label
Un Arbre En Bois,his third release,
but the first under his own name: Pierre Gerard.
Before he had two releases as Maison Medicale.
One very long for solo bass, the shortest one for
voice only and in the middle there is a track
combining both. However besides these two
basic sources, he also uses the computer to
process his sounds. To start with the best thing:
the title piece, the long one is a highly interesting
piece of music. A fine combination of drone like
material and microsound; sometimes the bass
generates sustained drone pieces, but the whole
thing is spiced with collated sounds dropping in and out.
After almost thirty-two minutes this might well be
enough, but there is two more shorter pieces.
In 'Lainage 2' I don't have the idea something
is added to what has been said before, but it's o.k.
'Lainage 1' is a superfluous voice based only,
which as far I am concerned shouldn't have
been included.
(FdW)
Address: http://www.unarbreenbois.be
collaborations
_ frédérique darras & pierre gerard
' perhaps to speak about nothing ' 2004
images: frédérique darras / sound: pierre gerard
dvd
compilation . . .
__ maison médicale
bitstream conversion 0.2
ErEWhON > http://www.radiantslab.com/erewhon
__ artificial memory trace
p r e s e n t s
interpretations |.
http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com/soundin/interpretation%20series%20CD%201.htm
plateaux (for gilles deleuze) on koyuki / yuki-007
SENTIRE ASCOLTARE : Plateaux / Pierre Gerard / Koyuki sound
Ormai è chiaro che i semi più fertili della scena elettronica minimalista germinano ancora. Dalla nostrana Koyuki arrivano i trenta minuti di Plateaux dell'artista belga Pierre Gérard .
Seguace della più radicale arte minimalista - quella iniziata ai principi della scuola riduzionista di Richard Chartier - Gérard dispone le scritture al minimo, richiamando i più nobili domini in fatto di pratiche d'estetica, fisicità del suono e processi all'ascolto. Egli si distingue però per l'astrazione e l'orientata negazione del superfluo a favore d'impercettibili miniature sonore accuratamente scelte per estremismo d'intervento e scala dell'udibile.
Se avevamo imparato ad impossessarci dello spazio con il movimento e le supefici in stratificate texture, in questo lavoro, a dettare le regole (in bit od elaborata elettroacustica), è la forma strettamente pura, che agisce sull'attesa e quasi in ombra (o sul contrasto scultoreo del segno) a diventare testimonianza di potenzialità sonora vs. silenzio.
Abbiamo un nuovo poeta del silenzio tra noi.
Sara Bracco
EARLabs
Pierre GÉRARD 'Plateaux (for Gilles Deleuze)' CDR > KOYUKI
Pierre Gerard is a musician from Belgium who probably has an interest in philosophy. For his release Plateaux (For Gilles Deleuze) for Italian label Koyuki he even refers to one of the modern thinkers. I am not really known with the theories by Deleuze so I can't say if the music Pierre Gerard creates fits with this or not.
Though, Gerard himself has a philosophic approach to music which he explains as “the music is the form of creation which enables me best to carry out an object without matter” . You could relate to this as music is a form of art without being able to touch it. The art lies in the form of the sound waves. Things that matter are duration, soundcolor and dynamics. The only physical about music is the media it is brought on (in the case of this album a cd-r).
I think he has a point there. Nowadays with all music being available over the internet, either through file-sharing of digital download shops, to a lot of people the format in which music is published doesn't matter that much anymore. The essence of the music remains the music, and all the extras are fun but are not elementary.
For the release Plateaux (for Gilles Deleuze) this theory gets adapted to the sound. Pierre Gerard does not play with harmonies, melodies and rhythms but rather sculptures with sounds. Main ingredient is silence, but when you turn up the volume sounds appear. High pitched sine tones appear and random glitches plop up. In the piece there isn't much development but more to the end there are also sounds appearing which hit the lower side of the spectrum.
This is not really music you can write about very much. There aren't too many surprises but when you have heard more of this kind of minimal music you don't really expect to get some. Either you like this or you don't. For what it is worth I like it but wouldn't play it too often.
Over the last however many years I've been writing Wonderful Wooden Reasons the number of truly minimalist recordings I've been sent is extremely low yet this month I have two, Wechseljahre Einer Hyäne by Radu Malfatti and this newest release by Belgium composer Pierre Gerard.
This is the sparsest of music. It's barely audible pops, squeaks, hisses and rattles are easily destroyed by the clatter of everyday life but in a quiet and relaxed environment they sing beautifully.
I find music of this sort to be utterly entrancing but equally I find it incredibly difficult to review but hopefully I've said enough to intrigue you into buying.
Vital weekly / number 688
Pierre Gerard has his own release on an Italian label called Koyuki, and things here deal with Gilles Deleuze - the philosopher who was so important for some musicians, but whose writing always eluded me a bit. Gerard writes me: 'the music is the form of creation which enables me best to carry out an object without matter (immateriel in French), some is its dimension, its duration, its form or its color', which, I must admit, doesn't make things much clearer, I guess. The word 'careful' applies here too. Gerard plays electronic music, in the best microsound tradition, but with more silence than say the [-Hyph-] record reviewed elsewhere. It seems to me that he uses feedback in a highly processed and toned down form, to which he has added bits of acoustic sounds, also highly processed. Gerard plays along the lines of Richard Chartier and Roel Meelkop (although lesser of surprise moves here), but certainly has a fine voice of his own. (FdW)
net_music :
Tori no Kaigi / trente oiseaux (germany)
" Tori no Kaigi is a compilation presenting a selection of contemporary electro-acoustic
and improvised music in four parts. The music for Kaigi no Tori was created by fine artists from all over the world. "
Tori no Kaigi [san]
VARIOUS ARTISTS : Translations Of Opacity - For Michelangelo Antonioni (2008) MP3 >>>>> and/OAR : and.p33
pierre gerard : objects in mirror are closer than they appear
(2008) www.etlefeucomme.be >>> et le feu comme 002
dear pierre, i congrat you with your new wonderful release on koyuki. i find 'plateaux [for gilles deleuze]' being so well composed, so powerful in it's quietness. and lovely challenging. thanks for your beautiful soundworld. all the best, terje
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