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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