cat# (1.8)sec005
artist: Hervé Boghossian / Stéphane Rives / Matthieu Saladin
title: plateformes
When starting (1.8)sec.records, I planed on focusing the music on
minimal sound art, and electroecustic music. Since starting the label
it has taken a life of it's own pulling me increasingly towards
something that falls somewhere between improvisational free jazz and
the above mentioned genres. I am thankful for this, otherwise I may
not have gotten the chance to experience and release 'plateformes'.
The trio of Hervé Boghossian, Stéphane Rives, and Matthieu Saladin is
very much a free improvisational jazz group, but the music they output
goes way beyond what you could expect from the instrumentation.
Delicate, but with an incredible power pulling, pushing, and then
releasing the listener. Not power in noise or volume, but a power
that is coming from the players utilizing the physics of there
instruments, and the sound they produce. Through techniques of
circular breathing, bass clarinet feedback, and guitar feedback you'd
be hard pressed to pin any one sound on a particular instrument.
I'm very excited about this release. Enjoy this album, and make every
effort to catch this trio in performance.
-c
Cat.#: (1.8)sec005
Edition: 500
Release Date: Mar 15th 2006
Format: CD
Total Length: TBA
Package Design and layout: Chris Bryan
Cover Photo: Taylor Deupree
Hervé BOGHOSSIAN (guitarist and electronic musician )
Biography : born in Marseille (France) in 1973 and moved to Paris (France) in 1997 .
He began his solo career under the moniker SOL, he soon composed a 15 minutes electronic soundtrack called « i@s », a collaboration with german video director Thomas Einfeldt .
It will be the first release (cd-r) of his own label List (L0) who came out in september 2001 and was screened in France, United States, Italy and Spain .
The List label http://www.list-en.com will soon release cds, v/a « minima-List » (L1-jan 2002), Sogar* « stengel » (L2-sept 2002), Mou,lips ! »peanuts... »(L3-jan 2003), the fourth cd release was Hervé Boghossian « rvb »(L4-june 2003), the first work under his own name a 3 long minimal electro-acoustic pieces album , v.a « INstruments »(L5-feb2004) and Günter Müller & Steinbrüchel « perspectives » (L6-feb2005)
He collaborated with Steinbrüchel, Günter Müller, Matthieu Saladin, Stéphane Rives, David Grubbs, John Tilbury, Mark Wastell, Burkhard Beins, Christine & Sharif Sehnaoui and also play on the same bill than Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, Jason Kahn Janek Schaefer, Taylor Deupree, Frank Bretschneider, Colleen, Vert, dj Olive ...in Paris, Geneva (Cave 12 & La Batie festival), Bologna (Raum), Brusells (Planétarium), London (Spawl), Berlin (Ausland, NBI, Staalplaat ), Warsaw (Turning Sounds festival) , New York (Tonic, Diapason )...
In june 2004, he released his second album « mouvements » on the prestigious german label Raster-Noton http://www.raster-noton.de , another side more melodic of his music composed of 10 short tracks consisted of guitar compositions treated with DSP .
He currently prepare a new album « euphonie » (to be release in 2006) who will go a step foward of « mouvements » into the melodic aspect of music .
He also work with guitar feedback on the powerful minimalist trio « Plateformes » with stephane rives -soprano sax- and matthieu saladin -amplified bass clarinet- as well as several other projects with others instrumentalists as interpreters for his « Archi.Texture » series of fragmented ensemble compositions like John Tilbury on piano , Mark Wastell on cello & double bass, Burkhard Beins on cymbal...
(Vol.1 « for cello & piano » to be release in 2006)
He also begin to work on (electro-)acoustic guitar both with DSP as well as totally acoustic, in folk oriented instrumental pieces in solo as well as more abstract improv like in the duo with Sharif Sehnaoui for the project « Les Ondes Acoustiques » .
He recently co-created with Matthieu Saladin ( first edition on sept 23/24, 2005) the experimental music festival Audiofocus http://audiofocus.free.fr .
Discography (2001-2005) :
_ Sol/T.Einfeldt « i@s » (List-L0) cd-r audio-vidéo sept 2001
_ Sol track « vers#1 » on v/a « minima-List » (List-L1) jan 2002
_ Hervé Boghossian « rvb » (List-L4) june 2003
_ Hervé Boghossian ,track « points d'orgue » (List-L5) on « INstruments » feb 2004
_ Hervé Boghossian « mouvements » (Raster-Noton) june 2004
_ track « mémoire cyclique » on v.a « achiv.1.1 » (Raster-Noton/Asphodel) june 2004
_ track « paris_aux » reprocessed trio track with G.Müller & Steinbrüchel on their « perspectives » album (List-L6) Feb 2005
_ track « the latter » on v/a « small melodies » (Spekk) sept 2005
_ track « euphonie » on v.a « archiv. »2 » (Raster-Noton) Dec 2005
_ »Plateformes » (with Stéphane Rives and Matthieu
Stéphane RIVES soprano saxophone
Born 1969, near Paris. More than 20 years of music. Autodidact saxophonist preoccupied by the contemporary evolution of instrumental sound, Stéphane Rives sees his instrument in a concrete acoustic sound perspective. In that sens, he participates to collective projects (Klac-Sons, Ivraie), organises concerts with musicians from the parisian scene (Frédéric Blondy, Bertrand Denzler) and meet different artists from electronic and electroacoustic music : Guido Hübner and Samuel Loviton from the band Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Laurence Bouckaert from the " les Phonogénistes ", Fred Nogray, Otomo Yoshihide and Bob Ostertag in a one nite big grouping, and also Pascal Battus. He likes to work on long term relation and with the slow maturing required by any experimental approached . That's why he forms a duo with vocalist Agnès Palier, which is documented on the cd " Oxymore ". He is also the dedicator and interpret of " Nunavut ", a piece for soprano saxophone and tape (made from multiphonic sounds and other treatments), composed by Fabrice Guédy (IRCAM), in collaboration with Vincent Fromont (INA). He plays in quartet with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Bertand Denzler and Marc Baron, in trio with Sharif Sehnaoui and Edward Perraud, in duo with Christine Sehnaoui and also with Quentin Dubost. He sometimes directs workshops (Bordeaux, Paris and Montreuil).
Matthieu Saladin
Bio :
Born in 1978, Matthieu Saladin graduated in philosophy, music and visual arts. He is currently a PhD student in musical aesthetics at the University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne. His research is about experimental music and more precisely contemporary free improvisation. He published several articles on this subject and was a speaker at several international conferences.
As musician, his plays bass clarinet, soprano saxophone and electronics. He is a member of the electroacoustic band Archipel since 2000 with Vania de Bie-Vernet and Stéphane Vigny. Since 2003, he develops a solo research registered in the improvisation and which the first record, Intervalles, will release in 2006 on the Slovene label, L'innomable. This work consists of an electronic introspection of the soprano saxophone and bass clarinet. It is a matter of exploiting at the same time the accentuation of acoustic specificities and the range of each instrument via various relatively simple treatments (equalisation, fragmentation, delay, panoramic) and the amplification of many details. A new work in progress is interested more precisely in only one play on the depth in the extreme low range of the bass clarinet.
In 2004, he forms the Plateformes trio together with Hervé Boghossian (electric guitar) and Stéphane Rives (soprano saxophone). He plays there the amplified bass clarinet, generating a feedback in the low ones which he modulates and deteriorates by a play on the pitch, the pressure and the breath.
Discs :
- Intervalles, cdr, L'innomable, 2006
- v/a, INstruments, cd, List, 2004
- basse clarinette sur RVB, H. Boghossian, cd, List, 2003.
- v/a, Minima-list, cd, List, 2001
- plusieurs disques avec Archipel depuis 2001, Vacuum
- Annexe #01, collective improvisation with Mils, Tank, Snark et Paul Lydon, cd, Annexe, 2000
Links :
http://www.linnomable.com
http://www.list-en.com
http://audiofocus.free.fr