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pierre gerard :

TEMPORARY FAULT

PIERRE GERARD – Plateaux (For Gilles Deleuze)

In keeping with the typical Koyuki standards Plateaux is very minimal, both in the sonic and the graphic design (the latter courtesy of Luigi Turra). The inexpert ear could easily position it in the undeserved company of less significant onkyo-derived releases, yet this would be terribly wrong, as Gerard knows what he's doing much better than hundreds of so-called “alternative” artists. His sense of event placing is astonishingly acute: there's not a moment in the whole album in which a sound appears unnecessary or unwanted in that particular instance. Speaking of tone and timbre, he masterfully alternates vapour and grain, sequences of hovering low-frequency “presences” interspersed with jagged interruptions and piercing interferences, like needles waking us up from a hypnotic illusion. One feels isolated and enraptured at the same time, the practical incapability of defining the sources of these undersized daydreams an actual advantage. This mixture of dynamic activity, extreme accuracy and mesmerizing minimization of nervous peaks - clocking at the perfect length of half a hour - should not be left disregarded.

MASSIMO RICCI

Sunday, 17 January 2010

http://temporaryfault.blogspot.com/2010/01/thirty-minutes-or-less.html

the music is the form of creation which enables me best to carry out an object without matter (immatériel in french), some is its dimension, its duration, its form or its color...i must of course fix it on a support, so that you can to hear it...

pierre gerard _ june 2009

"The silence that I manufacture, hears only my ears. like these lengthened forms, often."

pierre gerard _ 2010

Static Forms: Wooden Mouldings For The Assembly (to Constantin Brancusi)

pierre gerard / biography

né en 1966 (liège, belgique),
vit et travail à liège.
born in 1966 (liège, belgium),
lives and work in liège.

expositions personnelles (depuis 2006) /
individual exhibitions (since 2006)

°_a too pale woman in the shade (2010)- (SIC), Bruxelles (B)
°_la moitié de l'âge de l'univers (formes et couleurs) (2008)- Galerie Olivari-Veys, Bruxelles (B)
°_au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment, où encore (2008)- Les Brasseurs, Liège (B)
°_Insister sur l'édition et le multiple (2006)- Le Comptoir asbl, Liège (B)
°_espace comme (2006)- Galerie flux, Liège (B)

expositions collectives (depuis 2006) /
collective exhibitions (since 2006)

°_art brussels (27): Laurette Atrux Tallau, Samuel Buckman, Yves Lecomte, Pierre Gérard (2009)-Galerie Olivari-Veys, Bruxelles (B)
°_biennale internationale du design de liège 2008 "objet : 10 signes"- L'An Vert, Liège (B) coordination : Olivier Pe
°_"in_out" (2008)- Salle Saint-Georges du MAW, Liège (B)
°_"Pages blanches" (2008)- Les Brasseurs, Liège (B)
°_"Regardez #3"_ Nicolas Dufranne - Pierre Gerard (2008)- Centre Culturel La Vénerie (Ecuries), Bruxelles (B), Curateur : Kim Leroy
°_"initial" (2008)- Galerie Olivari-Veys, Bruxelles (B)
°_"Potlach&Gambit", After Cage (2006)- Musée d'Amsembourg, Liège (B), Curateur : Laurent jacob (251 Nord)

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pierre gerard / discography (since 2008)

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shinkei / pierre gerard | static forms
dragon's eye recordings (de5028)

2009 // pierre gerard : plateaux (for gilles deleuze)
koyuki >> koyuki / yuki_007

netlabel

dragon's eye recordings >> dragon's eye recordings
catalogue: de6006
artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
title: flowers dragon's eye fourth anniversary
2010
format: mp3

klangstaub musik >> trente oiseaux
artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
title: tori no kaigi [ichi]-[ni]-[san]-[yon]
2009
format: flac/mp3/aac/ogg

and/oar >> and/oar
catalog number: and.p33
artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
title: translations of opacity - for michelangelo antonioni
2008
format: mp3

myspace.com/pierregerard >> mp3 / photographs

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