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BarDem
Vincent Barras, Jacques Demierre

BarDem, duo composé de Vincent Barras et Jacques Demierre, travaille le son, la parole, le langage, éléments constitutifs de sa poétique. Une part importante de son activité consiste en la poursuite de collaborations avec d’autres performeur·euse·s, poètes, créateur·trice·s sonores, collectifs de musique ou d’arts vivants.
Les différentes productions qui en ont résulté, jusqu’ici inédites, sont rassemblées dans le coffret-objet Bar & Dem &, 5CDs et un livret, associant BarDem et des artistes d’horizons divers : compositeurs se saisissant de l’œuvre du duo pour une nouvelle création (A. Kessler, J. Demierre) ; performeurs se joignant à ce dernier en ajoutant leur propre pratique oratoire (C. Mann ; K. Gottschalk) ; chœur composé de communautés parlantes de langues différentes traduisant en live un poème de BarDem (The Alhambra Choir) ; quatuor d’interprètes simultanés interagissant avec les deux performeurs (El Cuarteto de Buenos Aires) ; ingénieur du son créant des dispositifs sonores spécifiques pour la diffusion de créations de BarDem (T. Simonot) ; auteur·trice·s et poètes sonores de l’avant-garde historique visité·e·s par BarDem.

ECHOING AND RE-ECHOING

Livret publié à l’occasion de l’exposition Regarder le glacier s’en aller.

Le vaste projet lancé à l’échelle nationale sous le titre Regarder le glacier s’en aller prend sa source sur le glacier du Rhône. Il fait suite à cinq années de réflexions menée sur place par l’artiste Carmen Perrin, rejointe ensuite par l’architecte Georges Descombes, l’ingénieur civil Jürg Conzett et le musicien-performeur Jacques Demierre. Leur réflexion naît du spectacle d’un glacier fortement fragilisé par le réchauffement climatique, et couvert de bâches géotextiles sur la périphérie d’une grotte glaciaire, permettant d’en continuer l’exploitation touristique.

[…]

Cela s’exprime en plusieurs volets. Par une exposition présentée à Gletsch, dans la grande salle de l’hôtel Glacier du Rhône où Carmen Perrin, sous forme d’un journal exposé, partage son enquête sans omettre obstacles et rencontres qui ont guidé ses bifurcations.

Dans l’écoute de l’instant : une visite musicale composée par Jacques Demierre et interprétée à trois voix in situ lors de l’ouverture de l’exposition, ouvre le dialogue intime entre l’univers et l’humain.

Il revient à l’ingénieur Jürg Conzett et à l’architecte Georges Descombes de conduire les visiteurs par une promenade suspendue sur les traces du glacier disparu, là où de nouvelles formes de vie apparaissent qu’il s’agit d’accueillir avec précaution et délicatesse.

il forestiere

Jacques Demierre

verlag klingental
klingental ist eine plattform für arbeiten an der schnittstelle von musik und sprache.
es soll sich hier in klingental um andere texte handeln, um wortarbeit, komponierte sprache, partituren in textform, stille musik.

A6
das erste und weiterzuführende projekt des verlags heisst A6.
es sind 14-seitige hefte in postkartenformat in form von 2 gefalteten und von hand nähmaschinengenähten A4-seiten.

A Right to Silence

DDK Trio
Jacques Demierre: piano
Axel Dörner: trumpet
Jonas Kocher: accordion

The trio’s third album, « A Right to Silence, » consisting of three CDs, was recorded by Benjamin Maumus at Theatre Le Colombier, Les Cabannes, France, June 21-25, 2021, on the occasion of a recording residency at GMEA-Centre National de Creation Musicale d’Albi-Tarn. In choosing the music to be released, the three musicians decided to apply the principle of non-influence-in-each-other’s-choice that they have been practicing for years as a trio. From there, they each made their own album from the same raw recordings, separately, each on their own. A previously unpublished text by researcher and sound artist Thibault Walter accompanies the 3-CD boxed set, highlighting the process carried out by the trio and described above. »-Ftarri »

The Hills Shout

Jacques Demierre, piano

Jacques Demierre refers to his new album as a ‘live memory of a past concert’. It’s easy to understand how—through the process of developing the piece, presenting it in concert and then editing the recording into something rather new again—it could feel that way. But to someone outside his mind who has some familiarity with his stunning body of work, it can sound like a culmination, a realization of all of his imagination and innovation folded into itself. It’s a distinct and remarkable record. […] K.G.

in the endless wind

LDL
Urs Leimgruber – soprano saxophone
Jacques Demierre – piano
Thomas Lehn – analogue synthesizer and sound processing

The trio LDL emerged from the trio LDP, which was expanded to form the quartet LDP+L with the addition of Thomas Lehn. Elements that had already been effective in shaping style and form in the quartet with Barre Philips continue in the triangular constellation of the LDL trio and unfold in the juxtaposition of the two keyboard instruments – the acoustic piano and the analogue synthesizer, both technically coupled with each other for mutual sound processing – and the anchoring of Urs Leimgruber’s soprano saxophone at the center of the sound image.
The result is a highly developed culture of musical improvisation substantially based on the fine, highly sensitive listening into the sound space. And the sound space here includes both, the musical events of the individual and collective creative processes, as well as the space itself in which the creative act takes place, including its acoustic nature and the space- transforming presence of the audiences.

a falling sound

Jacques Demierre : piano
Martina Brodbeck : cello

A recording of a piano tuning session was the starting point for a series of different pieces, all of which question the experience of measurement. These two pieces, «about a thousand years» and «a falling sound», for piano and cello, are a new stage in this process. If the music results from a work of measurement – that of the piano as a territory and of its different acoustic regions, both the voice of Pandit Prân Nath, which gave rise to the playing and scordatura of the cello, and the bass of one of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s pianos, used for this recording, were other equally determining influences. (j.d.)

quand tu ouvres i A

BarDem
Jacques Demierre, Vincent Barras
Editions Héros-Limite

quand tu ouvres i A est un poème sonore, qui résulte de la transcription de conversations de travail entre Vincent Barras et Jacques Demierre (le duo Bardem), enregistrées lors du tournage d’un film qui leur était consacré. L’œuvre en devient un poème concret, qui traite du son et de l’écoute, et dont l’écriture reproduit sur la page la scène de la parole en conversation. Une écoute-transcription qui se donne pour principe de tout accepter de la parole émise, sans rien rejeter.

AIR VOL. 1

Urs Leimgruber, in duo with
Gerry Hemmingway, drums
Hans Peter Pfammatter, prepared piano
Jaques Demierre, spinet
Thomas Lehn, electronics

The Space in Lucerne is the working space of saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and sometimes, on occasion, also a space for concerts and for recording. A space where the acoustics have been professionally calibrated to the finest degree, ensuring that even the smallest sound can be heard, the sound that is barely a sound anymore but is still there.

LAST CONCERT IN EUROPE

LDP TRIO
Urs Leimgruber, saxophones, Jacques Demierre, piano, Barre Phillips, double bass.
jazzwerkstatt 227

The performance documented on this remarkable recording isn’t likely to be the last concert by the trio of Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips. It was, however, the last one for the foreseeable future, with bassist Barre Phillips having moved back to the U.S. after many years living in France. The concert was not intended to be the last, though, and in any event it might be just as useful to think of it as their first.
It isn’t their first concert either, of course. The trio has released a half dozen albums over the last 20 years, each with the freshness of a first encounter. There’s always a sense of discovery in their playing, as if it were their first time meeting. The trio seems somehow to exist perpetually at dawn. […] K.G.

it forgets about the snow

Urs Leimgruber, soprano saxophone, Jacques Demierre, amplified spinet

The experience of stillness forms the ground upon which the work of Swiss duo Urs Leimgruber (on soprano saxophone) and Jacques Demierre (on spinet) is based. Through a process of continuously filling and emptying the sound space, the two artists allow their music to mani- fest itself in an inimitable manner. It is a listening proposition that immerses the instrumentalists and their audience in a fascinating movement of sonic transformation.
What at first glance appears to be a “restriction”, as it were, of musical possibilities to two instruments is, in fact, deceptive. As well as opening up their own individual universes of sound, both instruments in combination expand the listening experience into new dimensions.

MIDI VERTICAL

Belvédère sonore, dir. art. Jonathan Frigeri

Landscapes to listen, music to see, œuvres to reinvent. More than a guide with musical commentaries or a new cultural outreach experience, the Belvédères Sonores is an artistic re-creation. Stemming from a specific choice of public works of art that are fully-immersed in their natural décor and coupled with sounds expressly designed by local musicians, the BS propose augmented strolls in an attempt to skew the perception of art, music and landscaping. Once the application has been downloaded the smartphone-equipped user (ideally with headphones) will be able to walk from site to site and dive, the time of a soundtrack, within the aura of a sculpture and of the place of the city that shelters it.

Music: Simone Aubert, POL, Jacques Demierre, Alexandre Joly, Olga Kokcharova, Julie Semoroz, Antoine Läng, Laurent Schmid, Eleonora Polato
Sculpture: Sonia Graber-Moumni, Antoine Poncet, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Gianni Motti, John M. Armleder, Sabine Tholen, Georges Schwizgebel, Joëlle Flumet, François Morellet, James Vibert

LABO:MATIK #2

Colombia-Suiza

Este disco ha sido el resultado del proyecto labo:matik Colombia-Suiza, laboratorio de creación musical de*matik-matik* y COINCIDENCIA – Intercambios culturales Suiza-América del Sur, donde artistas de la vanguardia suiza y colombiana construyeron obras musicales a distancia.
 Released December 16, 2020

Jacques Demierrre: piano, voz, espineta
Las Añez: voces, looper, percusiones
Ricardo Arias: Electrónica, flauta, silbido, piedras, Velcro y globo inflable
Beatríz Elena Martínez: voz
Benjamin Calais: Mix & Master
Daniel Piedrahita: arte gráfico

STILL(U)N(R)ES(T)S

Camille Emaille et Raphaël Ortiz
percussions // amplified percussions
Insub.distances

Between stillness and unrest, two opposing but intertwined poles, just like in the title « Still​(​u​)​n​(​r​)​es​(​t​)​s », that would sum up, but too easily, this piece and its composer. Jacques Demierre, emblematic figure of the Swiss scene, is an unstopable experimenter, sometimes fond of arduous concepts, sometimes improviser roughing up his piano and master of tension and surprise.- moreover, we owe him a lot for the emergence of Insub(bordinations).

THE WELL-MEASURED PIANO

Jacques Demierre, piano

1. DILUTE THE SKY WITH CARE.  24:30
2. WIND MOTET.  14:24
3. TO THANK THE MORNING RAIN.  20:55

All titles are taken from MONOTONIE by Simon Cuts, Héros-limite, Geneva
All music composed by Jacques Demierre, SUISA.
Recorded February 28 and March 3 in Yverdon-les-Bains, and July 24, 2017 in Geneva by Blaise Favre.
Mixed July 31 and December 5, 2017 by Blaise Favre at Vietnet Studio.
A Creative Works Production CW 1064 ©+® 2019

INCUNABULUM

Hans Koch: Reeds_Jacques Demierre: Spinet, Piano

1. But There Were No Words 05:14
2. But We Weren’t Prepared to Enter The Game of Musical Houses 05:23
3. But I’ve Been Living Here For a Long Time 05:13
4. But I Didn’t Know If I Could Do This 02:44
5. But I Imagined Him Racing Madly Down The Beach to Dive Into the Surf 05:08
6. But This Was All Kind Of New To Me 05:31
7. But Things Were Going Pretty Smoothly 02:06
8. But You Know That Even Before You See The Pyramids You’re Going To Take A Camel Ride 05:10

Recorded May 8th/9th 2018 at Club, Biel, Switzerland.
Sound engineer: Oli Dutton
Mastering: Blaise Favre
Many thanks to Daniel Schneider from Club.
Release date: April 2019
Herbal Records_Concrete Disc 1901

WILLISAU

LDP TRIO + THOMAS LEHN
Urs Leimgruber, saxophones, Jacques Demierre, piano, Barre Phillips, double bass, Thomas Lehn, electronics
jazzwerkstatt 191

Das Abenteuer Improvisation wird einem selten so eindringlich vor Ohren geführt wie mit dem Trio LDP. Seit bald 20 Jahren sind die drei Intrumentalisten daran, ihre stupende Musik des Moments immer wieder anders und überraschend auf den Punkt zu bringen. Dabei stossen sie in klangliche Gefilde vor, die sie oft selber überraschen. Das Trio hat den einschlägigen Orten und Festivals weltweit seine Fans. Wer ihr Wirken seit Jahren verfolgt, ist erstaunt, wie sie mit ihrem endlosen Track immer wieder unsere Wahrnehmung schärfen. Mit dem Kontrabassisten Barre Phillips ist ein Musiker mit dabei, der schon vor über 50 Jahren das Publikum begeisterte. Im letzten Jahr ist das Trio an verschiedenen Residenzen in Europa mit illustren Gästen aufgetreten. Auch am Ruhr-Jazzfestival haben sie mit Thomas Lehn einen Top-musiker mit an Bord. Seine Analog-Elektronik fügt sich nahtlos in den puren Ausdruck dieses Trios. [Pirmin Bossart]

ABÉCÉDAIRE ABC-BOOK

Jacques Demierre, texte, voix

LIVRE + CD
250 PAGES
ÉDITION BILINGUE
FRANÇAIS / ANGLAIS
15 X 19,5 CM
ISBN : 979-10-94601-22-8
LENKA LENTE – MAI 2018

Avant-propos : Guillaume Belhomme
Traduction anglaise : Petya Ivanova
Photo : Peter Gannushkin

RITOURNELLE

Entre les versions française et anglaise de l’abécédaire est reproduite la partition de Ritournelle, composition (inédite) pour voix de Jacques Demierre dont un CD rend ici l’interprétation (par le même), enregistrée fin mars 2018.

CONE OF CONFUSION

Jacques Demierre, piano
Axel Dörner, trumpet
Jonas Kocher, accordion

Recorded in Biel/Bienne (CH) on November 3 2017
Mixed by Axel Dörner and mastered by Ilia Belorukov

tǝɣǝrit

Jacques Demierre, voice
Anouck Genthon, violin

CONFRONT RECORDINGS (confront collectors series ccs 88)
Recorded February 27, 2017 by Blaise Favre in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
Mixed and mastered by Blaise Favre at Vietnet Studio.
Original compositions by Demierre & Barras reworked by Demierre and Genthon.

FLOATING PIECE OF SPACE

DDK – Jacques Demierre, piano, Axel Dörner, trompette, Jonas Kocher, accordéon

face A – the mirror : 18’06”
face B – the garden : 17’41”
Format: 12” vinyl, 45t

Enregistré live à la cave12 en octobre 2014 lors d’un concert qui fut remarquable de tensions acoustiques, contre-pieds suspendus, intrications de sonorités scalpelisées, dépôts sonores orfévriques hautement focalisés, éruptions éparses, retenues magnificentes, une trompette-rayon-laser tout bonnement fantastique, voire extraterrestre, c’est avec un immense plaisir que la cave12, en étroite collaboration avec les musiciens du trio sort ce vinyle, « floating piece of space ». Fernando Sixto/Cave12

LISTENING – CARNET DE ROUTE LDP 2015

Jacques Demierre, Urs Leimgruber, Barre Phillips

Avant-propos : Guillaume Belhomme
Lenka lente
livre paru en mai 2016
édition trilingue (textes en français, anglais, allemand)
15 x 19,5 cm (broché)
274 pages (ill. n&b)
ISBN : 979-10-94601-05-1
EAN : 9791094601051

En 2015, les musiciens Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre et Barre Phillips donnèrent, dans le cadre de la tournée « Listening », une grande série de concerts des deux côtés de l’Atlantique. Au gré du voyage, ils adressèrent au site internet Le son du grisli des souvenirs, des anecdotes, des pensées et des photos qui composent un carnet de route que ce livre reprend dans une version augmentée.

Cela fait quinze ans qu’Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre et Barre Phillips improvisent ensemble sous le nom de LDP. Quinze années d’une improvisation qui n’en finit pas, selon l’aveu de Demierre : « LDP joue un unique concert qui continue depuis bientôt quinze ans. Le silence entre chaque performance est simplement d’une durée un peu plus longue que celle des silences joués sur scène. Car l’écoute que nous avons du trio ne cesse pas le concert une fois terminé, elle se prolonge, elle tisse sans cesse un lien dynamique avec la mémoire, jusqu’à la prochaine rencontre live des trois musiciens.

ITERARE

Cyril Bondi : melodica, bass melodica, harmonica, tuned bowl
d’incise : melodica, harmonica, electronic tones, tuned object
Jacques Demierre : indian harmonium

Rhizome s
Recorded in september 2014 by Benjamin Vicq, Holophonic studio, Geneva
Mix by d’incise
paru le 7 juillet 2016

1 3 2 1

LDP TRIO
Urs Leimgruber, saxophones, Jacques Demierre, piano, Barre Phillips, contrebasse
jazzwerkstatt

MATHEMATICAL THEORY: THIS EQUATION: THIS TRIO: 1 IS THE INDIVIDUAL – WHOSE INPUT IS THE BASIS OF THE WORK – WHICH BECOMES 3, THE TRIO.
FROM THERE, 3, WE MOVE TO 2, WHICH IS THE AUDIENCE PLUS THE TRIO AND THEN WE MOVE BACK TO 1.
THIS NEW 1 IS THE SAME INDIVIDUAL BUT IS NO LONGER THE SAME.
BARRE PHILLIPS

THE THIRTY AND ONE PIANOS

the thirty pianos orchestra
jacques demierre, conductor, composition, piano

all music by jacques demierre, SUISA
thirty pianos recorded live on september 9, 2012 by denis rollet at le galpon, geneva, switzerland during cataclysme pianos, three days of events curated by cave12, théâtre le galpon and boxing piano

free fight edited by jacques demierre from a piano solo concert recorded live on october 15, 2000, at CCS, paris, france
mixed by adrien kessler and mastered by blaise favre
on flexion records

 

ARCANA VII

Musicians on Music
Jacques Demierre in Conversation with Guillaume Belhomme

Hips Road, edited by John Zorn

VOICING THROUGH SAUSSURE

Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre, voix, composition

bardem, triple CD

6ix-NOTHING MORE

Jacques Demierre / piano
Okkyung Lee / cello
Thomas Lehn / synthesizer
Urs Leimgruber / soprano saxophone
Dorothea Schürch / voice, singing saw
Roger Turner / drums, percussion

Recorded by Katherine Arnold at Cafe OTO November
2013
Mixed by Thomas Lehn.
Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin.

BREAKING STONE

JACQUES DEMIERRE, composition, piano
TZADIK Records Composer Series

recorded April 12, 2011 by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
mixed by Adrien Kessler at Vélodrome Studio, Geneva, Switzerland
pre-mastered by Blaise Favre at Vietnet Studio, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
mastered by Scott Hull, February 4, 2013, New York

 

ALMOST EVEN FURTHER

6ix
Okkyung Lee
Dorothea Schürch
Thomas Lehn
Roger Turner
Urs Leimgruber
Jacques Demierre

Leo Records