Jocelyn Robert et Alexandre St-Onge présentent Oremus Versatile, un disque double de musique pour voix et piano Disklavier.
“The music flows from the speakers like dandelion seeds in the air. It drifts about in a hazy, going this way and that. Once you think you have it work out, it starts to buffet another way. There are moments to ‘Oremus Versatile’ that is so touching. ‘Bifurcations’ has sections that make me want to cry. The combination of the incredible piano work and St-Onge’s vocals is something else. So tender and heartfelt. It reminds me that music has the power to utterly move me to a jabbering wreck. Around the halfway more ‘Pluie, Jamais’ launches into this delicate run of notes, while a second set dance around them. It truly is a wonderful thing.” Vital Weekly
Jocelyn Robert and Alexandre St-Onge present Oremus Versatile, a double-cd of music for voice and Disklavier piano.
“The music flows from the speakers like dandelion seeds in the air. It drifts about in a hazy, going this way and that. Once you think you have it work out, it starts to buffet another way. There are moments to ‘Oremus Versatile’ that is so touching. ‘Bifurcations’ has sections that make me want to cry. The combination of the incredible piano work and St-Onge’s vocals is something else. So tender and heartfelt. It reminds me that music has the power to utterly move me to a jabbering wreck. Around the halfway more ‘Pluie, Jamais’ launches into this delicate run of notes, while a second set dance around them. It truly is a wonderful thing.” Vital Weekly
L’Ile Noire et L’Ile Rouge sont une sorte de peinture paysagiste audible du chaos qui bouille dans mon cerveau quand je regarde autour de moi.
L’Ile Noire & L’Ile Rouge end up being, for better or for worse, a sort of sound painting of the chaos that bubbles in my brain whenever I look around.
L’Ile Noire et L’Ile Rouge sont une sorte de peinture paysagiste audible du chaos qui bouille dans mon cerveau quand je regarde autour de moi.
L’Ile Noire & L’Ile Rouge end up being, for better or for worse, a sort of sound painting of the chaos that bubbles in my brain whenever I look around.
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Une pièce de piano préparé sur la mémoire et sa fragmentation. Version studio des sons de l’installation “Mon père et moi”, présentée au centre Expression, Ste-Hyacinthe, QC
president of the united states
A work of prepared-piano about memory and its falling apart. Studio version of sounds from the installation “Mon père et moi”, shown at Expression, St-Hyacinthe.
Un disque double présentant les résultats de résidences au Lieu Multiple-Poitiers (concept), à ZK/U – Berlin (développement) et à EMS-Stockholm (enregistrement).
A double cd presnting the results of residencies at Lieu Multiple-Poitiers (concept), ZK/U – Berlin (development) and EMS-Stockholm (recording).
Musique contemporaine pour piano Disklavier, études faisant suite à Signatura Rerum.
Contemporary music for piano, following the organ series found on Signatura Rerum.
Musique contemporaine pour orgue à tuyaux, enregistrée sur le superbe instrument Casavant du Palais Montcalm, Québec.
Contemporary music for pipe organ, recorded on the wonderful Casavant instrument at Palais Montcalm, Quebec.
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Un nouveau cd de I Lost The Fish !
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A new cd from I Lost The Fish !
Critique
Critique de Piano seul dans Vital Weekly #986
Piano seul, Printemps 2015
Jocelyn Robert écrit de la musique pour le piano Disklavier depuis 1992. Alors que sa première publication, Le Piano Flou, a mené à quelques concerts, la plupart de ses compositions pour Disklavier qui suivirent furent des projets de studio. En 2014 Viviane Paradis, la directrice artistique du festival Mois Multi, lui a offert la chance de jouer en concert et il a profité de l’occasion pour développer de nouvelles pièces, basées sur l’improvisation avec et dans des logiciels qu’il a écrit pour le projet. Les pièces du Piano seul ont donc été composées comme des improvisations à l’intérieur de structures, de la musique libre qui trace son chemin au travers de clôtures et de voies tracées… Ceux qui ont apprécié Cycloides, son plus récent disque publié par GD Stereo seront en terrain connu.
Review
Review of Piano seul in Vital Weekly #986
Piano seul, Spring 2015
Jocelyn Robert has been writing music for the Disklavier piano since 1992. While his first work Le Piano Flou, a double-cd set, led to several concert appearances, most of his following works for Disklavier have been studio projects. In 2014 Viviane Paradis, the artistic director of the festival Mois Multi, offered him the chance to play live and he jumped on the occasion to develop new works based on improvisation with and within software that he wrote for the project. The pieces on Piano Seul have all been written in this context and feature improvisation within structures, free music making its way through fences and pre-drawn roads…
Those who enjoyed his Cycloides cd, released last year on GD Stereo will be on familiar grounds