BERTRAND GAUGUET & JOHN TILBURY CONTRE-COURBES CD Akousis Records AK002

 


Their new album is coming out now on Akousis Records as a double whammy of two concerts, each for over 40 minutes long - compositions between modern improvised music and sonorous composition.

And as with many in this context - it's a deep listening experience with nuanced play of different aspects that both experienced musician present. The robust structure of both performances leave a lot of space for individual interpretation and great deal of analysis - both intelectual and quite intuitive as well. 

In navigating the listener they use a lot of counterpoints and silent space that especially John Tilbury is keen to present and with Bertrand's help they both create a music arena - an outlet for different techniques, subtle interactions and differentiating osmosis.

 

Bertrand Gauguet plays the alto saxophone in solo or collective

contexts of improvisation of new music. He is also a composer of

electronic music and has produced many original plays and

soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio. His interests explore the

relationship between music and non-music and sound as a medium

of meditation. His discography counts to date about twenty albums

published by the European labels. He was awarded the Villa

Kujoyama in Kyôto in 2011.

Collaborations with Éliane Radigue, John Tilbury, Sophie Agnel,

Franz Hautzinger, Andrea Neumann, Eddie Prevost, Isabelle Duthoit,

Xavier Charles, Thomas Lehn, Carol Robinson, Pascal Battus, Eric La

Casa, Robin Hayward, Michel Doneda, Thomas Korber, Tetsu Saïtoh,

Cyprien Busolini, Andy Guhl, Mike Bullock, Tetuzi Akiyama,

Toshimaru Nakamura, Grands Lacs, Insub Meta Orchestra,

Ensemble Un, Christian Barani (video), Christian Merlhiot (vidéo),

Anne Durez (vidéo), Sophiatou Kossoko (choreographer), Catherine

Contour (choreographer).



John Tilbury won a piano scholarship to the Royal College of Music

in London where he studied with Arthur Alexander. He subsequently

became a pupil of James Gibb and then went to Warsaw on a Polish

government scholarship where he studied with Zbigniew Drzewiecki.

Tilbury has given concerts and broadcasts of new music, including

first performances, in many countries around the world. He has

worked with many composers - including David Bedford, Howard

Skempton, Dave Smith, Michael Parsons, John White, Michael

Finnissy, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Christian Wolf,

Terry Riley and Cornelius Cardew. His solo recordings include Cage's

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, from the seventies, and

more recently the music of Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton,

Christian Wolff and the complete solo piano works of Morton

Feldman. His recordings with the Smith Quartet of the complete

works for piano and strings are being released on three DVDs, the

first of which appeared in 2010, and the second in 2012.

He is also well known as an improvising musician through his

membership of AMM, one of the most distinguished and influential

free improvisation groups to have emerged in the sixties. More

recently Tilbury has gained recognition as an actor, in particular his

interpretations of the works of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.

Tilbury's biography of the life and work of Cornelius Cardew,

Cornelius Cardew - a life unfinished, was published at the end of

2008 and was short-listed (of two) for the Royal Philharmonic prize.


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