it forgets about the snow
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
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
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
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
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
