- Poire z
poire_z (pronounced "pwar-zed" [http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/p/poire-z/poire-z-plus.asp] ) was an electronic
free improvisation music group formed in 1998 [http://www.for4ears.com/poire_z/about_poire_z.html] . The group's members all have long careers in improvised music; critic Fred Grand of "Avant" calls poire_z a "post-AMM supergroup." [http://www.tvpow.net/press_reviews.htm]Band history
At a music festival at Nantes,
France in 1998, percussionistGunter Muller and turntablistErikm were scheduled to perform as a duo. The same festival featured a performance by duoVoice Crack . The four musicians made an unscheduled collaboration, and afterwards formed a semi-regular quartet.They recorded several albums and made a number of live appearances before disbanding. poire_z often invited a fifth musician as a guest:
Keith Rowe ,Phil Minton ,Christian Marclay ,Otomo Yoshihide ,Sachiko M and others performed or recorded with the core quartet.As with much
free improvisation , poire_z's music is generally focused more on a group sound, and given the musicians' unorthodox approach to their instruments, it's often difficult to discern who is generating any individual sound. Aside from glimpses of Muller's occasionally unprocessed percussion, their music is nearly all electronic blips, clicks and droning like ashortwave radio tuned in to an extraterrestrial broadcast; critic Ed Howard described the group's music as "all whir and purr and throb, the soldered electronic exclamations of the Voice Crack duo spurting around the steady rhythmic drive of Muller and eRikm ... a dense cycling drone with harsh electronic interjections skipping over the top." [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/poire_zphil-minton/q.htm] One piece is described as "delicate tones, crackles and light bubbling sounds, resting and intermingling with characteristic weightlessness, only occasionally being interrupted by glimpses of harsher textures." [http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/reviews/022_review.asp]Voice Crack formally disbanded in about 2004, and poire_z have not recorded or performed since.
Personnel
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Erikm : turntables, effects
*Gunter Muller : percussion, effects
*Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang (who recorded asVoice Crack ) on homemade electronics.External links
* [http://www.for4ears.com/poire_z/welcome.html Official site]
References
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