Jean-Luc Guionnet: Organ Solo
Opening concert of the NEXT 2016 Festival will take place in the Small Evangelical Church.
Jean-Luc Guionnet‘s work is divided into as many parts as he has opportunities to think and act in sound and image. A Parisian artist active in many fields (music, visual arts, cinema), he has mostly worked in electro-acoustics but also has a career in free improvisation, field recordings, playing alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, church organ, and piano. He has collaborated with Éric La Casa, Éric Cordier, and André Almuro on tape music. His organ performances are about encountering the machine, the mechanism of the organ; part vehicle and part artificial intelligence, taking the breath of the machine and its direction in space and letting that breath vibrate in its own certain way without losing its raw quality; exploring the length of propagation, the magnitude of the reverb. Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.