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AA26: Hervé Provini - Digital Music Landscape for drum and computer
style: electroacoustic break(core)
date: 2011-01-01
1. Spiral
2. Subway
3. Ethnic
4. Bells
5. Storm
6. Insect
7. Space
8. Hardcore
50'03''
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...Depuis de nombreuses années la seule rare certitude musicale qui me reste est la musique que je ne
veux pas produire que ce soit un certain « type » ou « esthétique musicale pré-définie » mais plutôt
de me laisser guider par l’exploration des sons et des formes musicales.
A cette fin j'ai fabriqué des outils informatiques qui me permettent d'organiser de manières diverses
le champ musical.
Les 8 compositions réalisées a posteriori sur des improvisations de batterie et réunies sous le titre
« Digital Music Landscape » sont quelques-unes de mes explorations sonores et formelles du moment.
...For years the only musical certainty remaining for me has been the music I don’t want to produce, be
it a certain “type” or a “pre-defined musical esthetic”. I’d rather let myself be guided by the
exploration of sounds and musical forms.
For this purpose I created digital tools that allow me to organize the musical field in different ways.
The 8 compositions created as an aftermath from drum improvisations and assembled under the title
“Digital Musical Landscape” are some of my present sound and form explorations.
(Translated by Elisabeth Studer and Isabelle Watson.)
Swiss drummer d'incise Hervé Provini
allies the power of rock with the finesse and creativity of free improv, much
like his main influences Tony Williams and Ronald Shannon Jackson. He is best known for a trilogy of
albums recorded in the late-'90s and early 2000s on which he turned the tables on the man-machine
relationship. On Biological and Chaotic Music, Musique Nucléaire, and Musique Amoureuse he duels with
a piano piloted by a computer he programmed to surprise him.
Provini was born in 1963. He grew up with
the 1970s, listening to hard rock, prog rock, and the jazz-rock explosion. Fascinated by the drums since
his early childhood, he started to play as a teen. After attempting studies in engineering and
architecture (where he picked up his first notions in computer programming), he turned to music. He
attended the Geneva Conservatoire Populaire de Musique, where he studied in Rainer Boesch's acousmatic
class. Since then he has split his musical activities between electroacoustic composition (mostly in music
for theatre and dance) and acoustic improvisation on the Swiss jazz scene. He has worked with Sylvie
Courvoisier, Hans Köch, Michel Godard, Vinz Vonlanthen, Stephan Wittwer, and Elliott Sharp, and has
recorded with Bertrand Gallaz's Bare Bones Power Trio, Maurice Magnoni, and Jacques Demierre.
Being a
drummer, he approached the use of programming in music from a different perspective: keeping the rhythm
"human," trying to program the rest. In the mid-'90s, the piano was the only acoustic that could be
controlled by a computer (thanks to Yamaha's Disklavier). Provini developed a series of programs to
make the computer generate musical material out of non-musical input -- he used genetic and chaotic
algorithms, also the mathematical analysis of the playing style of Jacques Demierre (in Musique Nucléaire).
Three solo albums came out of this working method, all released by Unit between 1999 and 2002.
(François Couture)
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