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PERFORMANCE : GENERAL PROGRAM

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PERFORMANCE PROGRAM BY FABRICE MONTAL



ADD . L’ARCAND DERVICHE DÉRIVATIF
Pierre-André Arcand, La traversée du désert
performance, Québec , 2004


It is true that he started as a poet. Through his projects he has progressively moved on and embraced broader fields. The goal was to find music in words and to mix this phonetic, lexical or syntactic musicality with sounds manipulated live. Henceforth the music became more important than the text. An Autonomad he has worked in a variety of fields ranging from copy art to performance as well as installation, book art, combinatory literature, audio art and experimental music.

At the heart of his performances is the Macchina Ricordi. In Italian this means the "the machine that remembers." For the first 30 years he used it in an analog form. It invention made it possible to manipulate sound loops through the use of a modified tape recorder and a microphone that served as a pen. Recently, the Macchina Ricordi was adapted by the Avatar Laboratory (Quebec) and turned into an high performance digital instrument in the shape of a program which now also integrates low resolution video images.

Pierre André Arcand works mainly with evolving loops which he accumulates so as to better deconstruct and modify them and to let them loose as sentences which he projects in order confront them and make them neosemic. His images are the fruit of graphic recuperations and transformations that he structures during prepared random semantic improvisation sessions. This way of operating makes it possible to constantly discover unknown pleasures, which is quite the contrary of burying one's head in the sand.

Pierre André Arcand is among those explorers for whom poetry is not limited to published texts — he seeks and finds it in the most trivial acts of everyday life: in the sounds of the glottis, web pages, the veins of a rock or on clotheslines.

The project he is proposing for the 6th MIVAEM will reflect this accumulation that compresses time, grinds information and by way of mixing and superposition produces a dense sonic mass. These activities are the mark of this singular artist who has achieved wide international recognition and barley any at home.

Fabrice Montal

Atlas Epileptic :
Following Pierre-André Arcand's appearance at Champ libre, recording company DAME is launching his album, Atlas Epileptic, the artist's first release on the independent record label Ambiances Magnétiques.
This title combines an audio CD and a video CD-ROM, in the vein of audio art as well as acoustic, electronic and digital musics. Arcand authors thus a document bursting with invention and poetry.

 

   
     
DESERT : 6th MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE
MONTREAL - SEPTEMBER 20 TO 27, 2004 - PRESENTED BY CHAMP LIBRE