le 11/10/02 18:51, Jan R. à dasfestistzuendeaus@yahoo.de a écrit :
Which are very elitist institutes (under the shadow of IRCAM, of cause), I know them ...
me too :) (I'm in Paris btw :)))) I participate to Resonance next week.
Yes, you're right, Pierre Schaeffer knew JMJ, and as he once said, he saw "a connection between new sounds and the public" in JMJ. If you read this statement carefully, you will notice that there's a lot of ambivalence in it. ;-)
sure ;)
I'm *relatively* familiar to the oeuvre of Pierre Schaeffer, and I'm far away from overrating him, but it seems to me that there are at best superficial relations between his works and the recordings of JMJ. Schaeffer always tried to find out the *meaning* of a sound (as Holger Czukay said: You have to listen very deeply into the sound to find out what he's saying). JMJ in my humble opinion did never and does not. He's not interested in deeply listening. He's a very talented supplier of flashes in the pan. - But that's a matter of taste ...
I'm much more fond of Pierre Henry anyway, especially live, JMJ lost it as a pop provider on zoolook. And it's no earthshacking music he was doing anyway. (now the JMJfans will kill us ;)
And it's strange you can't find the early JMJ works he didi at the time ;) Maybe it's better this way ...
or maybe it's really not commercial enough or both :)))) Hear Pierre Henry or die! ;) Denis D) musique concrète