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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”298″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/let-the-power-fall-again”][vc_single_image image=”299″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/boris-caroline”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Deux nouveaux albums pour le d\u00e9but 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let The Power Fall, Again<\/a>
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Cette interpre\u0301tation au piano de l\u2019album Let the Power Fall, de Robert Fripp, est ne\u0301e a\u0300 la fois de la curiosite\u0301 et d\u2019un grand respect pour l\u2019auteur de l\u2019album original, paru en 1981. C\u2019est aussi un indicateur : ceux qui ne connaissent pas cet album ou qui l\u2019ont rele\u0301gue\u0301 dans un coin de leur me\u0301moire pourraient trouver re\u0301ve\u0301lateur de retourner l\u2019e\u0301couter.<\/p>\n

Boris & Caroline<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c0 la m\u00e9moire de Boris Firquet et Caroline Ross. Merci \u00e0 l’\u00c9cole d’art de l’Universit\u00e9 Laval. Avec quelques mots des voix de Catarina Ry\u00f6ppy et Sari Koski-V\u00e4h\u00e4l\u00e4.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Two new albums to begin 2025 with
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Let The Power Fall, Again<\/a>
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This piano version of the album Let The Power Fall, released by Robert Fripp in 1981, is a work born of curiousity and huge respect for the original album and its author. It is also a pointer : it indicates to the ones who don\u2019t know the original work or who knew it but left it behind that it might be a good idea to go back and give it a listen.<\/p>\n

Boris & Caroline<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In memory of Boris Firquet and Caroline Ross. Thanks to Ecole d’art de l’Universit\u00e9 Laval. With a few words from the voices of Catarina Ry\u00f6ppy and Sari Koski-V\u00e4h\u00e4l\u00e4.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”293″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/un-jardin-dombres”][vc_single_image image=”292″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ponts-poniums-de-louis-ouellet”][vc_single_image image=”291″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/oremus-verstatile-joue-christof-migone”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Un jardin d’ombres<\/a><\/p>\n

Ponts et Poniums de Louis Ouellet<\/a><\/p>\n

Oremus versatile\u00a0 joue Christof Migone<\/a><\/p>\n

3 nouveaux albums pour mai 2024 !<\/p>\n

Une \u00e9pop\u00e9e sonore aliment\u00e9e par Audiometaphor et Calliope, un hommage au philosophe, artiste et ami Louis Ouellet, et une exploration de plus avec le complice Alexandre St-Onge.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Un jardin d’ombres<\/a><\/p>\n

Ponts et Poniums de Louis Ouellet<\/a><\/p>\n

Oremus versatile\u00a0 joue Christof Migone<\/a><\/p>\n

3 new albums for May 2024 !<\/p>\n

A sound journey fed by Audiometaphor and Calliope, an hommage to the philosopher, artist and friend Louis Ouellet, and a new adventure with accomplice Alexandre St-Onge.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”287″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/un-tigre-de-papier”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Un tigre de papier<\/a><\/p>\n

Nouvel album ! Quand je te parle, les mots se mettent en ligne et je peux suivre le train, mais d\u00e8s que les sons s\u2019arr\u00eatent dans ma bouche mon regard est accroch\u00e9 par l\u2019\u00e9cureuil qui traverse la rue sur le fil \u00e9lectrique en haut du coin de la cl\u00f4ture qui fait un moir\u00e9 derri\u00e8re la petite fille en trottinette qui arr\u00eate d\u2019urgence, les yeux grands ouverts, peur ou plaisir, pour \u00e9viter le chat qui regarde vers le ciel et qui perd l\u2019animal gris devant la corniche grise de la clinique dentaire comme celle de Billy P\u00e8lerin avant qu\u2019on le transfert dans un h\u00f4pital aux murs verts p\u00e2les parce qu\u2019il voyageait dans l\u2019espace pour retrouver Patachon au milieu des \u00e9toiles comme celles dans mes oreilles quand le docteur a dit, dans un bureau aux murs aussi verts aussi p\u00e2les, en pointant vers un graphique : \u00ab c\u2019est \u00e7a \u00bb, mais ce n\u2019\u00e9tait qu\u2019un tigre de papier.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Un tigre de papier<\/a><\/p>\n

A new album ! When I talk to you, words align and I can follow the meaning like water in the sand but as soon as I become quiet my mind is caught by the move of a dark squirrel on a dark wire up over the street reaching a post near the dogs that bark buzzing bees in front of the dental clinic like the one Billy Pilgrim used to operate until they took him to an hospital because he was seeing to many extraterrestrial beings in his dreams with a movie star and memories of gun shots in a wet field in Germany leading to a dark trip in a train, in which cars align like words in the mouth of the doctor when she said, in a pale green wall office on a winter afternoon \u00ab This is it \u00bb but is was a paper tiger.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”283″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/piano-loup”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Piano Loup<\/a><\/p>\n

Nouveaux travaux de piano Disklavier, d\u00e9riv\u00e9s en partie des explorations \u00e0 l’orgue de Gu\u00e9rande en 2022 qui ont men\u00e9 \u00e0 L’Oc\u00e9ante. Dessin de Marie-Andr\u00e9e Ouimet sur une photo de Laurence Petitpas. La version sur carte USB inclus la vid\u00e9o “Topologies”[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3”][vc_column_text]Piano Loup<\/a><\/p>\n

More Disklavier piano works, inspired in part by the 2022 experiments on the pipe organ of Guerande, which led to L’Oc\u00e9ante. Drawing by Marie-Andr\u00e9e Ouimet on a picture by Laurence Petitpas. The USB Drive version includes the video “Topologies”[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”278″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/constellation-guerande”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Constellation Gu\u00e9rande<\/a><\/p>\n

Constellation Gu\u00e9rande<\/em> a d\u2019abord \u00e9t\u00e9 une marche sonore doubl\u00e9e d\u2019une composition pour orgue \u00e0 tuyaux. R\u00e9sultat d\u2019une commande d\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019Athenor (Saint-Nazaire) et Avatar (Qu\u00e9bec), la performance, r\u00e9alis\u00e9e sp\u00e9cifiquement pour la Coll\u00e9giale St-Aubin de Gu\u00e9rande, a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au public \u00e0 six reprises le samedi 30 avril 2022. En juillet 2023, Christophe Havard et Jocelyn Robert se sont r\u00e9unis \u00e0 nouveau, \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec cette fois dans les studios d\u2019Avatar. \u00c0 partir des enregistrements de la performance, ils ont r\u00e9alis\u00e9 la pi\u00e8ce du m\u00eame titre que vous trouverez ici.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Constellation Gu\u00e9rande<\/a><\/p>\n

Constellation Gu\u00e9rande<\/em> was first a sound walk and a composition for pipe organ. Commissioned by Athenor (Saint-Nazaire) and Avatar (Quebec City),
\nthe performance, created specifically for the Coll\u00e9giale Saint-Aubin in Gu\u00e9rande, was presented six times publically on Saturday, April 30, 2022.
\nIn July 2023, Christophe Havard and Jocelyn Robert came together again,
\nthis time in Avatar\u2019s studios in Quebec City. Using recordings of the performance, they created the work under the same title that can be found here.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”274″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/minotaure”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Minotaure<\/a><\/p>\n

Un nouvel album solo !<\/p>\n

4 nouvelles pi\u00e8ces : voix et performance, IA audio, montage qui se mord la queue, RF + organetto[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Minotaure<\/a><\/p>\n

A new solo album !<\/p>\n

4 new works : voice and performance, AI audio, editing in circles, RF & organetto[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”265″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/les-m-t-ores-zeit-und-wetter”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Les M\u00e9t\u00e9ores et Zeit Und Wetter (Mai)<\/a><\/p>\n

de Louis Ouellet et Jocelyn Robert<\/p>\n

Louis Ouellet, compagnon d’art depuis les ann\u00e9es 80, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 30 juin 2023. Cet album, que nous venions tout juste de terminer, lui est d\u00e9di\u00e9. jr<\/p>\n

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\nIl y eut d\u2019abord Zeit Und Wetter. C\u2019\u00e9tait une pi\u00e8ce pour piano m\u00e9canique contr\u00f4l\u00e9 par informatique. Le logiciel que nous avions con\u00e7u jouait les 720 permutations du nombre 6 en les conjuguant aux donn\u00e9es m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques d\u2019une ann\u00e9e enti\u00e8re et aux les r\u00e8gles de base de la musique pour g\u00e9n\u00e9rer une pi\u00e8ce qui durait un an en continu et qui ne pouvait s\u2019\u00e9couter qu\u2019en temps r\u00e9el. En effet, le code de Zeit Und Wetter lisait directement l’horloge de l’ordinateur, y prenant constamment la date et l’heure, puisant ensuite dans un fichier les informations de temp\u00e9rature correspondantes (vent, pr\u00e9cipitation, ensoleillement, pression, etc) et les assignant aux param\u00e8tres d’une autre machine logicielle, qui comportait les principes premiers des d\u00e9cisions musicales.<\/p>\n

Son exp\u00e9rience d\u2019\u00e9coute refl\u00e9tait ce geste banal, quotidien, que nous r\u00e9p\u00e9tons tous \u00e0 intervalle r\u00e9gulier sans vraiment y penser: prendre quelques minutes pour regarder par la fen\u00eatre la temp\u00e9rature qu\u2019il fait dehors et le temps qui coule; toujours la m\u00eame chose et jamais pareil!<\/span><\/p>\n

Zeit Und Wetter a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e \u00e0 quelques reprises pour des p\u00e9riodes de quelques semaines dans des espaces d\u2019art, mais comme le format \u00ab 365 jours \u00bb ne convient pas \u00e0 tous, nous en avons fait une premi\u00e8re version abr\u00e9g\u00e9e de 12 disques compacts qui pr\u00e9sentaient chacun une heure extraite de chaque mois. L\u2019heure choisie du mois de mai est incluse dans le format cd (mais pas sur Bandcamp, \u00e0 cause des restrictions de taille de fichier). Puis, dans l\u2019id\u00e9e de faire un r\u00e9sum\u00e9 du r\u00e9sum\u00e9, un instant fugitif, nous avons condens\u00e9 chaque mois en un tout petit segment \u20143 minutes \u00e0 peine, comme une photo de calendrier\u2014 pour que l\u2019ann\u00e9e tienne sur un seul disque compact, sous le titre Les M\u00e9t\u00e9ores. Bonne \u00e9coute.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Les M\u00e9t\u00e9ores et Zeit Und Wetter (Mai)<\/a><\/p>\n

de Louis Ouellet et Jocelyn Robert<\/p>\n

Louis Ouellet has been my friend in art since the 80s. He passed away June 3othm 2023. This album is published in his memory.<\/p>\n

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It began with Zeit Und Wetter, a work for computer-controlled player piano. We developed a software that generated the 720 permutations of digits 1 to 6, which were played according to the meteorological data of an entire year and basic music theory, producing a work that lasted one continuous year and could only be listened to in real time. The code for Zeit Und Wetter read the computer clock directly and constantly to assess the date and time, then took the corresponding weather information (wind, precipitation, sunlight, barometric pressure, etc.) from a file and assigned them to the parameters of another software engine, which contained key principles of musical decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The listening experience reflected a daily, banal gesture that we all make on a regular basis without really thinking about it: looking out the window for a few minutes to check the weather and see time passing; always the same thing and never quite the same!<\/p>\n

Zeit Und Wetter was presented a few times in art spaces for periods of a few weeks, but as the \u201c365-day format\u201d isn\u2019t for everyone, we made an initial abridged version of twelve CDs that each presented one hour extracted from each month. The hour selected from May is included in the cd (but not on Bandcamp, given the file size exceeding the maximum allowed). Then, with the idea of making a summary of a summary, a fleeting moment, we condensed each month into a very short segment\u2014barely 3 minutes, like a calendar snapshot\u2014so that the year can fit on one CD called Les M\u00e9t\u00e9ores. Happy listening![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”260″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/christofmigone.bandcamp.com\/album\/seti-sati-ma-m-re-musicienne-est-morte”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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Seti Sati (Ma m\u00e8re. musicienne, est morte)<\/a><\/p>\n

de Christof Migone<\/p>\n

L\u2019origine de ce projet de Christof Migone remonte \u00e0 une intervention radio, \u00e0 CKUT-FM, Montr\u00e9al. \u00c0 partir de ce point, il explore diff\u00e9rentes variations des Vexations<\/em> d\u2019Erik Satie : d\u2019une performance improvis\u00e9e autour d\u2019un disque vinyl \u00e0 un montage d\u2019enregistrements sur ruban, dont les lames de d\u00e9coupage sont devenues une oeuvre en soi, en passant par une s\u00e9rie d\u2019affiches num\u00e9rot\u00e9es en 840 exemplaires. Le projet trouve ici une nouvelle forme. Il devient une s\u00e9rie pour piano, 840 ex\u00e9cutions du dernier accord des Vexations, jou\u00e9es \u00e0 la maison, \u00e0 Toronto, en 2022, sur un piano qui n\u2019\u00e9tait pas accord\u00e9 et par un artiste qui ne pr\u00e9tend pas \u00eatre pianiste.
\nL\u2019album fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 Satie, bien s\u00fbr, mais aussi \u00e0 l\u2019acronyme de Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti<\/em>) et au terme bouddhiste signifiant la pleine conscience (Sati<\/em>). Le sous-titre, (\u2018My mother, musician, is dead<\/em>\u2019), fait lui r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au livre Ma m\u00e8re, musicienne, est morte de maladie maligne \u00e0 minuit, mardi \u00e0 mercredi, au milieu du mois de mai mille977 au mouroir Memorial \u00e0 Manhattan<\/em>, de Louis Wolfson. Mais il est \u00e9galement v\u00e9ridique que la m\u00e8re de Christof Migone \u00e9tait pianiste.<\/p>\n

Sur Bandcamp : https:\/\/christofmigone.bandcamp.com\/album\/seti-sati-ma-m-re-musicienne-est-morte<\/a><\/p>\n

Autres informations : https:\/\/christofmigone.com\/setisati\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seti Sati (Ma m\u00e8re. musicienne, est morte)<\/a><\/p>\n

by Christof Migone<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2022, at home in Toronto, I performed 840 times the last chord of Satie\u2019s Vexations one note at a time (track 2) and then all at once (track 7). The piano was not in tune and I am not a pianist.
\nThe album title references Erik Satie but also alludes to the acronym for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti), and the Buddhist term meaning mindfulness (Sati). The subtitle (\u2018My mother, musician, is dead\u2019) references a 1984 book by Louis Wolfson titled Ma m\u00e8re, musicienne, est morte de maladie maligne \u00e0 minuit, mardi \u00e0 mercredi, au milieu du mois de mai mille977 au mouroir Memorial \u00e0 Manhattan. And it is also true in my case, my mother was a pianist.
\nThe point of origin for this project was recorded live on air at CKUT-FM in Montr\u00e9al in 1992. Impromptu, in keeping with Satie\u2019s instructions for Vexations, I counted to 840 while a vinyl recording of the piece played repeatedly, thanks to a closed groove, the final chord of the composition. Then, during an 840 minutes-long performance, I used two copies of the 1992 radio piece on two reel-to-reel players to do 840 edits using 840 razor blades (I spliced randomly from one tape to the other) (tracks 5, 6). The performance was presented at the Khyber Center for the Arts in Halifax in 1995. It also featured Kim Dawn and Lukas Pearse and was advertised by 840 numbered posters. The razor blades were first presented as part of Trou, a solo survey exhibition curated by Nicole Gingras, Galerie de l\u2019UQAM, Montr\u00e9al, 2006. The remaining tracks (1, 3, 4) combine the 1992 and 2022 versions in various ways<\/p>\n

On Bandcamp : https:\/\/christofmigone.bandcamp.com\/album\/seti-sati-ma-m-re-musicienne-est-morte<\/a><\/p>\n

More informations : https:\/\/christofmigone.com\/setisati\/<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”256″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/robj590531″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]ROBJ590531<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c0 l\u2019hiver 2021 je suis tomb\u00e9 malade : cancer de la gorge. Le cancer lui-m\u00eame n\u2019a pas eu vraiment le temps de faire du dommage, mais les traitements de radioth\u00e9rapie et de chimioth\u00e9rapie ont frapp\u00e9 fort. J\u2019en ai eu pour deux mois et j\u2019ai essay\u00e9 de continuer \u00e0 faire des sons pendant toute la p\u00e9riode, mais j\u2019ai \u00e9chou\u00e9. J\u2019en suis venu \u00e0 un point o\u00f9 je ne pouvais pas trouver la concentration n\u00e9cessaire pour lire une simple bande dessin\u00e9e, alors suivre le fil de la composition \u00e9tait vraiment hors de ma port\u00e9e. Mais j\u2019ai essay\u00e9 de tenir bon, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce que la seule chose que je sois capable de faire fut de regarder par la fen\u00eatre toute la journ\u00e9e. Alors j\u2019ai laiss\u00e9 tomber. Dix-huit mois plus tard, je suis sur mes deux pieds, ma sant\u00e9 est revenue. Je suis retourn\u00e9 \u00e9couter ce que j\u2019avais laiss\u00e9 en plan sur le disque dur et j\u2019ai eu la surprise d\u2019y trouver ces deux pi\u00e8ces inachev\u00e9es, t\u00e9moins de cette p\u00e9riode \u00e9trange, Je les ai ressorties, les ai termin\u00e9es, et les voici, sous le titre ROBJ590531, le code inscrit sur le bracelet qu\u2019on me faisait \u00e0 chaque fois que j\u2019entrais \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]ROBJ590531<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In the Winter of 2021, I got badly sick : throat cancer. The cancer itself didn\u2019t have enough time to do too much damage, but the radiotherapy and chemotherapy did hurt a lot. The treatments lasted for two months and I tried to maintain some sort of audio composing going throughout the whole process, but I failed. I got to a point where I was so confused I couldn\u2019t even read a comics book, so keeping track of what I was doing in sounds was completely out of my reach. But I kept it going as long as I could, until the only thing I could do was sit by the window. Then I left it to itself. Eighteen months later, I am in better shape, my health is back ok. I went back and listened to the works I had on the hard drive, the sketches I made while floating in the therapy clouds, and was surprised to find two unachieved works that somehow were a pretty good account of the experience itself. I dug them out, finished them and here they are under the title ROBJ590531, which was the ID on the wristband they would give me every time I would go to the hospital.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”249″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-ballad-of-peach-blossom-spring”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]The Ballad of Peach Blossom Spring<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Un nouveau mash-up sonore, \u00e0 l’intersection de l’IA et de la d\u00e9rive litt\u00e9raire… <\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]The Ballad of Peach Blossom Spring<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A new audio mash-up mixing AI with text vertigo…
\n<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”243″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/loceante-2″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]L\u2019Oc\u00e9ante<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Nouveau travaux d\u2019orgue \u00e0 tuyaux. Qu\u00e9bec et Gu\u00e9rande sont des villes de mer. C\u2019est lors de r\u00e9sidences d\u2019artiste dans ces deux villes que L\u2019Oc\u00e9ante est n\u00e9e. Il y a deux parties : \u00ab Les Marais salants \u00bb \u2014les 5 premi\u00e8res pi\u00e8ces\u2014 a \u00e9t\u00e9 initi\u00e9e \u00e0 Gu\u00e9rande et termin\u00e9e \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec, alors que \u00ab Apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9luge \u00bb \u2014les 5 suivantes\u2014 a \u00e9t\u00e9 initi\u00e9e \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec et fignol\u00e9e \u00e0 Gu\u00e9rande. L\u2019ensemble a \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019orgue Casavant du Palais Montcalm, \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]L\u2019Oc\u00e9ante<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

New music for pipe organ. Quebec and Guerande are cities of the sea. L\u2019Oceante was composed while in residency in these two places. There are two parts : \u00ab Les Marais salants \u00bb \u2014the first 5 pieces\u2014 was initiated in Guerande and finished in Quebec, while \u00ab Apr\u00e8s le deluge \u00bb \u2014the last 5 pieces\u2014 began in Quebec and was finished in Guerande. The whole project was recorded on the Casavant organ of the Palais Montcalm, in Quebec City.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”242″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/vicomte-de-rien”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Vicomte de rien<\/a><\/p>\n

Projet d’orgue \u00e0 tuyaux inspir\u00e9 de la lecture de “De la tr\u00e8s haute pauvret\u00e9”, un livre de Giorgio Agamben[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Vicomte de rien<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

New Pipe organ works, inspired from \u201cThe Highest Poverty : Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life\u201d, a book from Giorgio Agamben<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”226″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/merles.ca\/?page_id=13″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Les dimanches<\/em><\/span><\/a>
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Nouvelles pi\u00e8ces pour piano
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New piano works
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Jocelyn Robert et Alexandre St-Onge pr\u00e9sentent Oremus Versatile<\/em>, un disque double de musique pour voix et piano Disklavier.<\/p>\n

“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 \u2018Oremus Versatile\u2019 that is so touching. \u2018Bifurcations\u2019 has sections that make me want to cry. The combination of the incredible piano work and St-Onge\u2019s 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 \u2018Pluie, Jamais\u2019 launches into this delicate run of notes, while a second set dance around them. It truly is a wonderful thing.” Vital Weekly<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Oremus Versatile<\/em><\/span><\/a>
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Jocelyn Robert and Alexandre St-Onge present Oremus Versatile<\/em>, a double-cd of music for voice and Disklavier piano.<\/p>\n

“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 \u2018Oremus Versatile\u2019 that is so touching. \u2018Bifurcations\u2019 has sections that make me want to cry. The combination of the incredible piano work and St-Onge\u2019s 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 \u2018Pluie, Jamais\u2019 launches into this delicate run of notes, while a second set dance around them. It truly is a wonderful thing.” Vital Weekly<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”207″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/jocelynrobert.com\/?page_id=1713″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]L’Ile Rouge<\/em><\/a>
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L\u2019Ile Noire<\/em> et L\u2019Ile Rouge<\/em> sont\u00a0 une sorte de peinture paysagiste audible du chaos qui bouille dans mon cerveau quand je regarde autour de moi.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]L’Ile Rouge<\/em><\/a>
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L\u2019Ile Noire<\/em> & L\u2019Ile Rouge<\/em> 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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”206″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/jocelynrobert.com\/?page_id=1710″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]L’Ile Noire<\/em><\/a>
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L\u2019Ile Noire<\/em> et L\u2019Ile Rouge<\/em> sont\u00a0 une sorte de peinture paysagiste audible du chaos qui bouille dans mon cerveau quand je regarde autour de moi.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]L’Ile Noire<\/em><\/a>
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L\u2019Ile Noire<\/em> & L\u2019Ile Rouge<\/em> 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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”204″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/jocelynrobert.com\/?page_id=1667″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]p<\/span>resident of the<\/span> unite<\/span>d states<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>
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Une pi\u00e8ce de piano pr\u00e9par\u00e9 sur la m\u00e9moire et sa fragmentation. Version studio des sons de l\u2019installation \u201cMon p\u00e8re et moi\u201d, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au centre Expression, Ste-Hyacinthe, QC[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]p<\/span>resident of<\/span> the<\/span> unit<\/span>e<\/span>d<\/span> states<\/span><\/a>
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A work of prepared-piano about memory and its falling apart. Studio version of sounds from the installation \u201cMon p\u00e8re et moi\u201d, shown at Expression, St-Hyacinthe.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”199″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/jocelynrobert.com\/?page_id=1656″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Berlin<\/em><\/span><\/a>
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Un disque double pr\u00e9sentant les r\u00e9sultats de r\u00e9sidences au Lieu Multiple-Poitiers (concept), \u00e0 ZK\/U – Berlin (d\u00e9veloppement) et \u00e0 EMS-Stockholm (enregistrement).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Berlin<\/em><\/span><\/a>
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A double cd presnting the results of residencies at Lieu Multiple-Poitiers (concept), ZK\/U – Berlin (development) and EMS-Stockholm (recording).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”200″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/jocelynrobert.com\/?page_id=1651″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]La Signature des choses<\/em>
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Musique contemporaine pour piano Disklavier, \u00e9tudes faisant suite \u00e0 Signatura Rerum.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]La Signature des choses<\/a><\/span>
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Contemporary music for piano, following the organ series found on Signatura Rerum.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”186″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/merles.ca\/?page_id=185″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Signatura Rerum<\/em>
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Musique contemporaine pour orgue \u00e0 tuyaux, enregistr\u00e9e sur le superbe instrument Casavant du Palais Montcalm, Qu\u00e9bec.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Signatura Rerum<\/em>
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Contemporary music for pipe organ, recorded on the wonderful Casavant instrument at Palais Montcalm, Quebec.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”174″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/merles.ca\/?page_id=175″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]T <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Un nouveau cd de I Lost The Fish<\/em> ![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]T <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A new cd from I Lost The Fish<\/em> ![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”44″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http:\/\/merles.ca\/?page_id=82″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Critique <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Critique de Piano seul dans Vital Weekly #986<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Piano seul, Printemps 2015<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jocelyn Robert \u00e9crit de la musique pour le piano Disklavier depuis 1992. Alors que sa premi\u00e8re publication,\u00a0 Le Piano Flou, a men\u00e9 \u00e0 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 profit\u00e9 de l\u2019occasion pour\u00a0 d\u00e9velopper de nouvelles pi\u00e8ces, bas\u00e9es sur l\u2019improvisation avec et dans des logiciels qu\u2019il a \u00e9crit pour le projet. Les pi\u00e8ces du Piano seul ont donc \u00e9t\u00e9 compos\u00e9es comme des improvisations \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur de structures, de la musique libre qui trace son chemin au travers de cl\u00f4tures et de voies trac\u00e9es… Ceux qui ont appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 Cycloides<\/a>, son plus r\u00e9cent disque publi\u00e9 par GD Stereo seront en terrain connu.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Review<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Review of Piano seul in Vital Weekly #986<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Piano seul, Spring 2015<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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…
\nThose who enjoyed his Cycloides<\/a> cd, released last year on GD Stereo will be on familiar grounds[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”298″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/let-the-power-fall-again”][vc_single_image image=”299″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/jocelynrobert.bandcamp.com\/album\/boris-caroline”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Deux nouveaux albums pour le d\u00e9but 2025 Let The Power Fall, Again Cette interpre\u0301tation au piano de l\u2019album Let the Power Fall, de Robert Fripp, est ne\u0301e a\u0300 la fois de la curiosite\u0301 et d\u2019un grand respect pour l\u2019auteur de l\u2019album original, paru … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merles.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}