A second CD from this collaboration by Sheffield's finest pair of electroacoustic composer / improvisers. It is essentially a live concert recording reworked and added to in the studio. In form it is 2 carefully orchestrated climaxes followed by a melodic coda. There are no preconceptions about fitting into any recognised genre. Reduced activity improv, free jazz, beats and textured soundscapes all play a part here. Much of the background ambience comes from Hervé's field recordings made in the open air in southern Italy. These natural sounds are carefully woven into the music. The dynamic is of music played in front of an audience rather than collaged together in the studio.
Hervé Perez
Hervé's sonic work pans from composition, film sound and installations
to live performances. From his time at art school, encounters with
acoustic ecology, electro-acoustic composition, psychoacoustics and
related philosophy of sound production and design allowed him to
merge his compositions for instruments on the one hand, and field
recordings and digital work in the other hand with the fluidity of
gesture of his visual work. He makes a racket with the free
improvisation collective - gated community - playing guitar and
various resonant objects. He collaborates with improvisers, in
France and in the UK or anywhere a resistance emerges. His solo
work on laptop sometimes accompanies visuals and films from the
composition and design of soundtracks to improvised soundscapes.
Sometimes you have to dream up your own.
His laptop rattles the nerves of academia in the dark spaces of
acous-mania. Some people scream. Some bleed to death. Disruption
is everywhere. In the safe place of the sitting room, in the near
inane, in the religious amnesia, in the lull of beta sofa and tv
procurantism. Economia verbalis. Hypocritia interestus. The
architecture of immobility. Frémir le silence. Every wall has a
crack. Find the wave length. He is also developing his technique
for soprano saxophone in a search for resolutely organic sounds for
the mind and the body.
Contact: nexttimerv@hotmail.com
Web: www.spacers.lowtech.org/herve
