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Place of Birth: Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About 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 Conservatoire de 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 Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris ) and festivals of Avignon, La Rochelle, Darmstadt playing Georges Aperghis, Iannis Xenakis, Hora?iu 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.
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