URBAN SAX is the fruit of a long acoustic and architectural research that began in 1973... after "LARD FREE" (repetitive and experimental acoustic and synthetised forms of music). Over the years, from projects to projects, the band increased to its present form : saxophonists, chorus singers, percussionists, bass player and dancers.
URBAN SAX can be augmented by local participants from Dance and Music Schools. This has no limit ; the band has sometimes numbered 200 !
Whenever it’s possible, Gilbert Artman likes the band to be joined by some musicians issued from different musical horizons.
For example, the band was joined in Jakarta by Balinese dancers and Gamelan musicians, in Vancouver by some Native American Drummers and Scottich pipers, in Turkey by some Sufis, in Tokyo by some traditional Japanese drummers...
URBAN SAX has been invited all over the world to perform in events such as the inauguration of plazas, theatres, monuments... opened and closed countless festivals, played in differents places, (castles, caves, churches), “redefined” truly urban environments like subways, factories, electric power stations and has been asked to participate in numerous events...
Urban Sax 1 à 4 (CD EPM FDC 1124 -rééd des 2 premiers LPs)
Fraction sur le temps (LP Celluloid CEL 6788 ;CD EPM 982042)
Spiral (CD EPM FDC 1125 ; CD Wave Records Eva 2027 ; . Musicassette) (Japon)
Urban Sax à Jakarta (CD AWA 95002 non commercialisé)
"To the Happy Few" (CD Cézame SAM 002)
Live in Tokyo (CDV Teichuku Records 48045) (Japon)
Pierre Henry et Urban Sax "Paradise lost"(LP Philips 6313 293 Musicassette 7200 293)
COMPILATIONS:
Century XXI France (1 titre) (CD New Tone Records 21750 7011 2) (Italie)
30 ans d'agitation musicale en France(1titre) .( 3XCD SpalaxBox14711)
BolzanoBozen (DVD MediaTime 2646) (Italie)
Golden Ace Eurock ( DVD ECD 3001) (USA)
FILMOGRAPHIE:
"Mirage de son, Live in Tokyo" ( CDV Teichiku Records Co Ltd 48045 Vidéo Teichiku records Co Ltd FVK 7000O1)
"Urban Sax à Venise" par Eric Cloué TF1
"Urban Sax à Venise" par Inform'elles (primé Festival de Tokyo)
"Sommet de Versailles" réalisation Jean-Pierre Barizien TF1
"Groningen" réalisation Institut français
"Lisbonne Central Tejo" réalisation Institut français
"Live in Canada and New York" réalisation Nathalie Drach (Canada)
"Fraction sur le temps" réalisation Jean-Claude Pierson
"Bonjour Mr Orwell" mutiplex Berlin Rome Paris, réalisation Nam June Paik pour le Centre Pompidou
"Année Internationale Adolphe Sax", Dinant réalisation Serge Dzwonek RTBF (Belgique)
"Das Heine" Eine poetische nacht am Rhein co-production WDR - Arte (Allemagne)
"Comme un lointain sonore" réalisation Sleiman Abouzeid MTV Liban (Liban)
BIBLIOGRAPHIE:
"Photoscopie 81" par François Le Diascorn (Editions La Documentation Française)
"Urban Sax" par Irmgard Pozorski (Editions Chambre Noire/Janink)
"Fragments" Peintures de Véronique Serra (Editions S.I.S. (Ars Memoria )
"Livre de partitions" + CD (Editions Cézame- Argile)
"Jakarta 95" par Hervé Dangla
"Guérison Chamanique" de Marc-Louis Questin (Editeur Guy Tredaniel)
"European Rock & the second Culture" d'Archi Patterson (Edition Eurock) (USA)
"Histoires du Saxophone" de Françoise et Yves Billard (Edition Joseph Clims)
