Pierre Bastien : home
In a studio, it is more than funny to build a small automaton that will play the violin, or a nigerian drum : rather an irreverent joke about Music, and about the human machine as well. So what ? Will a simple mechanism be able to play a violin, when a student spends so much time in learning how to bow ? Will the talking-drum sound, while beaten by the stick through a motor and some gears, instead of a dancer with muscles ?

However, during a concert, the other way around : the constructor becomes a conductor. Instead of a screw driver, he now holds a trumpet. His fellow musicians are nobody else than his metallic contraptions. Their nerves are nothing but rubber rings. Their heart, some recycled electro-motors taken from old record-players. He has to trust on these light and fragile creations. The composition is based on this delicate machinery.
Then a strange phenomenon occurs in the music, that makes the necessary emotion come less from the man, than from the machines around him.


Piere Bastien - Photo: Guy de Lacroix Herpin
[ Photo: Guy de Lacroix Herpin ]



02-09-2010AkkuhHengeloNL


10-09-2010DresdenD
Ostrale'010 Festival

18-09-2010L'EchandoleYverdonCH


24-09-2010NEMO Science CenterNL


02-10-2010Salon des AmateursDüsseldorfD
Approximation Festival

07-10-2010BordeauxF
Festival Russie Mon Amour

09-10-2010TrondheimN
Meta.Morph Biennale

12-10-2010BoulazacF
première of "Ici" by Compagnie Jérôme Thomas

13-10-2010L'ArchipelParisF
Serendip Festival

19-10-2010Bush HallLondonUK


20-10-2010The StablesMilton KeynesUK


21-10-2010ArnolfiniBristolUK


22-10-2010North WallOxfordUK


23-10-2010The Apex Bury St EdmundsUK


24-10-2010BirminghamUK
Supersonic Festiva

29-10-2010BarcelonaES
LEM Territori Sonor

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Cervantino Festival

04-11-2010PueblaMEX


06-11-2010MoreliaMEX
Visiones Sonoras

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14-11-2010Opéra de LilleLilleF
Oorsmeer

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Boréales Festival

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