Jean-Pierre Robert
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Jean-Pierre Robert
Jean-Pierre Robert (born 22 December 1956, Tours
, France
) is a French
double bass
player and author.
In 1979, first prize of double bass of superior national Conservatoire of Paris, he becomes a musician of Ensemble l'Itinéraire steered by Michaël Levinas. He stays there until 2003, and has numerous collaborations with Ensemble Intercontemporain of Pierre Boulez
, while claiming a " almighty need to dislearn ".
It is in 1983 when he shows itself by his soloist play, creator of contemporary musics, on the scenes of Georges-Pompidou center ( Paris ) and festivals of Avignon, La Rochelle, Darmstadt playing Georges Aperghis
, Iannis Xenakis
, Horatiu Radulescu
.
In 1986, begin the writing of: " modes of playing the double bass " (éd. Musica Guild), within the framework of a collaboration with IRCAM
, a stake with flat of the playing techniques of his instrument where appear its nearness of the concepts of instrumental body, dance body, to listen as a pictorial and plastic sensibility.
In 1995, it is these particular searches(researches) which develop with GRAME of Lyon ( France ) in the musics with electronics - the electronics lived as extension of the instrumental body - and the creations of Kaija Saariaho
, James Giroudon in Lisbon, Geneva, Madrid; then, with domain of Kerguéhennec in 1996 as regards the plastic and theatrical dimension
It is the period of his " Installation art
" with the musics of Georges Aperghis and John Cage
(in the Georges-Pompidou Center) with his " 1 Double bass - 1 Human " being with the musics of James Dillon
, Brian Ferneyhough
, Salvatore Sciarrino
, Giacinto Scelsi
, etc.
It is this work on John Cage
that opens in 2004 the next period of the works of "Juxtapositions" (just "Â" position) which operates opened forms - Bruno Maderna
, Karim Haddad
, Sylvano Bussotti
- in the highly-rated of written works or bruitistes actions; in juxtapositions also of musical styles with musicians as Dominique Pifarely
, or arts with the dance, the text with Valère Novarina. Denying a subordination of the arts, his "Juxtapositions" reveal a humanist dimension of its musical act: "This idea of Juxtaposition takes back the situation of our human beings first relations on earth: only juxtapositions of our bodies, our times, our dynamics, our punctual agglutinations; even dressed by the civilization until the transcendence. ".
2005 Arte Viva : 1 Contrebasse-1 Humain. JP Robert, Ph. Boivin.
2005 Arte Viva : 4 Havres Exquis N°1. Am Avram, H Radulescu, J Druckman.
2006 Arte Viva : 4 Havres Exquis N°2. J. Rebotier, K. Saariaho, S. Bussoti.
2007 Arte Viva : 4 Havres Exquis N°3. J. Dillon, G. Scelsi.
Jean-Pierre Robert (born 22 December 1956, Tours
Tours
Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) is a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
player and author.
In 1979, first prize of double bass of superior national Conservatoire of Paris, he becomes a musician of Ensemble l'Itinéraire steered by Michaël Levinas. He stays there until 2003, and has numerous collaborations with Ensemble Intercontemporain of Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
, while claiming a " almighty need to dislearn ".
It is in 1983 when he shows itself by his soloist play, creator of contemporary musics, on the scenes of Georges-Pompidou center ( Paris ) and festivals of Avignon, La Rochelle, Darmstadt playing Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music...
, Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
, Horatiu Radulescu
Horatiu Radulescu
Horaţiu Rădulescu was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.-Biography:Rădulescu was born in Bucharest, where he studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of Enescu, and later studied composition at the Bucharest Academy of Music ,...
.
In 1986, begin the writing of: " modes of playing the double bass " (éd. Musica Guild), within the framework of a collaboration with IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
, a stake with flat of the playing techniques of his instrument where appear its nearness of the concepts of instrumental body, dance body, to listen as a pictorial and plastic sensibility.
In 1995, it is these particular searches(researches) which develop with GRAME of Lyon ( France ) in the musics with electronics - the electronics lived as extension of the instrumental body - and the creations of Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...
, James Giroudon in Lisbon, Geneva, Madrid; then, with domain of Kerguéhennec in 1996 as regards the plastic and theatrical dimension
It is the period of his " Installation art
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
" with the musics of Georges Aperghis and John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
(in the Georges-Pompidou Center) with his " 1 Double bass - 1 Human " being with the musics of James Dillon
James Dillon (composer)
James Dillon, born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.Honors include...
, Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...
, Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...
, Giacinto Scelsi
Giacinto Scelsi
Giacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....
, etc.
It is this work on John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
that opens in 2004 the next period of the works of "Juxtapositions" (just "Â" position) which operates opened forms - Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna was an Italian conductor and composer. For the last ten years of his life he lived in Germany and eventually became a citizen of that country.-Biography:...
, Karim Haddad
Karim Haddad
Karim Haddad Composer of contemporary music Born on January 22, 1962 in Dar-el Mraisseh, Beirut, Lebanon.-Education:He achieved his first musical studies at the National Conservatory of Beirut. He received B.A. of Philosophy and literature at the American University of Beirut.He left his war torn...
, Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy...
- in the highly-rated of written works or bruitistes actions; in juxtapositions also of musical styles with musicians as Dominique Pifarely
Dominique Pifarély
Dominique Pifarély is a French jazz violinist. Born in Bègles, he is known as a modernizer who works in avant-garde jazz, but he has also worked in post-bop and other contexts....
, or arts with the dance, the text with Valère Novarina. Denying a subordination of the arts, his "Juxtapositions" reveal a humanist dimension of its musical act: "This idea of Juxtaposition takes back the situation of our human beings first relations on earth: only juxtapositions of our bodies, our times, our dynamics, our punctual agglutinations; even dressed by the civilization until the transcendence. ".
First performances works
- Georges AperghisGeorges AperghisGeorges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music...
: Récitations pour contrebasse, 1983. - Ana Maria Avram : Axe 7, 2005.
- Philippe Boivin
- Zab ou la Passion selon St Nectaire, 1982 ;
- 5 Algorithmes
- Aldo BrizziAldo Brizzi- Biography :He was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1960. He trained in classical music at the Conservatorio di Milano, and subsequently worked with Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez e Sergiu Celibidache. He holds a Laurea Degree from the DAMS Bologna...
: Barravento. Cb+sax solo, ens. instr. et électr, 1999. - Gualtiero Dazzi : Contra Suberna. Vx+ Cb solo, orchestre de chambre, 1998.
- James Giroudon : Jean-François Estrager : Unes, voix de basse. Cb et électr., 1995.
- Ramon Gonzalez Arroyo : De la distance, Cb et électr., 1994.
- Karim HaddadKarim HaddadKarim Haddad Composer of contemporary music Born on January 22, 1962 in Dar-el Mraisseh, Beirut, Lebanon.-Education:He achieved his first musical studies at the National Conservatory of Beirut. He received B.A. of Philosophy and literature at the American University of Beirut.He left his war torn...
- Ce qui dort dans l'ombre sacrée. Cb et électr., 1996 .
- I can only say… Cb , ens. instr. et électr , 2000.
- Pierre-Alain Jaffrenou : Tentation de l’anachorète. Cb et électr., 1995.
- Pierre Jodlowski : Vola. Cb et électr., 1995.
- Philippe Laval : Inox : érable. Cb et 2 sax., 1998.
- Michael Levinas : Le chant de l'arche. Cb et résonateurs., 1999.
- Martin MatalonMartin MatalonMartin Matalon is an Argentine composer and musician, and recipient of the 2005 Grand Prix des Lycéens and 2001 Prix de L'Institut de France Académie des Beaux Arts...
: La rosa profunda, 1992. - François Narboni
- Impromptu d'Ohio. Cb et Vx . , 1995.
- Les Animals. Cb, ens. instr. et électr., 1998.
- Gérard PapeGérard PapeGérard Pape is a composer of electronic music, author, and psychologist. He is a former student of David Winkler, George Cacioppo, William Albright, and George Balch Wilson...
: Fleuve du désir. Cb et électr., 1994. - Franck Pecquet : Kaleïdosonic. Cb et électr., 1984.
- Horatiu RadulescuHoratiu RadulescuHoraţiu Rădulescu was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.-Biography:Rădulescu was born in Bucharest, where he studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of Enescu, and later studied composition at the Bucharest Academy of Music ,...
- Ys Valley. Cb et électr., 1983.
- Incandescent sereine. Vx+cor+fl+cb., 1983.
- Awakening infinity. Vx+cor+fl+cb et orch., 1983.
- Azzuro profondo dello sguardo II, 2006.
- Jacques Rebotier
- Brève pour contrebasse, 1990
- Brève pour Trompette Marine, 1989.
- Étienne Rollin : Space Birds. Cb et électr., 2006.
- Vitor Rua : Bar Mitzvah à 3, 2006.
- Kaija SaariahoKaija SaariahoKaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...
: Folia. Cb et électr., 1995. - Daniel Teruggi : Trio. Sx+basson+cb., 1995.
- Yi Xu : Tui. Cb et électr., 1992.
Discography
- 1998 CD Radio France : Jacques Rebotier
- 1990 CD C. G. Pompidou IRCAM : Les années 90
- 1992 CD C. G. Pompidou : Martin Matalon
- 2004 INA Archives GRM : R. Gonzalez Arroyo
- 2008 CD AMESON , réf ASCP 0712 : " Une contrebasse, un humain " Musiques avec électronique : K. Saariaho, M. Matalon, P. Jodlowski, PA. Jaffrenou, G. Giroudon/JF. Estager, E. Rolin, K. Haddad.
Filmography
- Serge Gauthier-Pavlov :
2005 Arte Viva : 1 Contrebasse-1 Humain. JP Robert, Ph. Boivin.
2005 Arte Viva : 4 Havres Exquis N°1. Am Avram, H Radulescu, J Druckman.
2006 Arte Viva : 4 Havres Exquis N°2. J. Rebotier, K. Saariaho, S. Bussoti.
2007 Arte Viva : 4 Havres Exquis N°3. J. Dillon, G. Scelsi.
Writings
- 1991 "1contrebasse, 1humain, Jean-Pierre Robert". Jean-Pierre Robert/Freeze Delimbe. "Textual and graphic creation".
- 1995 Musica Guild : Les Modes de jeu de la Contrebasse, un dictionnaire de sons ("Modes of playing the double bass, a dictionary of sounds"). Bilingual, with 2 cd of Musical examples.
- 2008 Labellemusique. "1 contrebasse- 1 humain. Essai".
External links
- Review Presto Classical
- IRCAM
- Anne Salliot, 1994