Browse by Artist: BERTHET, PIERRE

Artist:	BERTHET, PIERRE
Title:	Un Cadre De Piano Prolongé
Label:	SONORIS (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SONO 41

"'Hanging above the audience, metal cans are linked to some strings of a piano frame by long steel wires (3 to 5 m.). Strings are excited by percussion, friction, magnetic fields and electric motors.' First solo record from this musician/instrument builder from Liege, Belgium (after a collaboration CD of strange songs with Frederic le Junter and one long track on a Sub Rosa compilation), also collaborator of Arnold Dreyblatt for performances. You'll find the first part in a Dreyblatt style, a center part of layered and droning sounds (but without any effects) and a strong finale. Another very good step in the minimal exploration of one musical instrument."

Artist:	BERTHET, PIERRE
Title:	Two Continuum Pieces
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 176CD

"Pierre Berthet lives and works in Liège, Belgium. Musician, composer, inventor, craftsman he is working with Frédéric Le Junter, Pierre Bastien, DJ Low, Rudi Trouvé and Arnold Dreyblatt. He has created here two minimal explorations of his own musical instruments -- springs, tank, tubular drums, jerry can, wires sound installations, home-made instruments, found objects -- the two continuum process pieces -- purely acoustic, full of drones and natural percussions (1. Tubular Drums, Drops And Springs, 2. Cuve, Bidon Et Fils ) were composed and recorded during the 90' s by Pierre Berthet and Brigida Romano. Recorded at location with a mobile studio and an armada of mikes."

Artist:	BERTHET, PIERRE
Title:	Extended Loudspeakers
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SR 296CD

Pierre Berthet is a Belgium-based musician, composer, inventor, sound installation artist and craftsman, and this is his second release on Sub Rosa. He studied percussion with André Van Belle and Georges-Elie Octors, improvisation with Garrett List, composition with Frederic Rzewski, and music theory with Henri Pousseur. He designs and builds sound objects and installations (made with steel, plastic, water, magnetic fields, etc.), and presents them in exhibitions and solo or duo performances. He has worked with Frédéric Le Junter, Pierre Bastien, DJ Low and Rudi Trouvé and played percussion with Arnold Dreyblatt. On Extended Loudspeakers, jerrycans (fuel containers made from pressed steel) are connected by a network of steel wires, with each wire length and can location adapted to the space. A loudspeaker is slipped inside one of the cans; the sounds it broadcasts make the wires vibrate. When these sounds are modulated (pitch, timbre, volume, density), the cans produce various resonances, which can be injected back into the speaker (feedback). The cans are hanging, so that listeners can circulate and choose different listening perspectives.

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