Paru initialement sur le label Kaon : La Rivière Série 2 – mini-CDr [de11]
Sixth issue of the second season of “La Rivière” CD series, “Aquifère” is inspired by the series of recordings made around the Taurion Valley .
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« (…) Le champion de la transfiguration (…) est incontestablement Pierre Juillard. Dans sa musique ambiante naturaliste, chaque son originel prend valeur de courant d’un tableau dynamique et expressionniste. L’orage lointain, la pluie, les forces d’eau et d’air veinent la scène comme rubans dans le couchant. Réverbération tournoyante, lumière filtrée d’un angélus lointain. Les plans à la tête desquels revient régulièrement, comme de juste, l’eau, vibrent vascularisés d’un rythme égal, de même que le paysage est harmonie de ses figures. »
Denis Boyer in Fear Drop n°16 « la zone grise, synesthésies et paysage musical »
" In the ongoing series of 'processed river sounds' (recorded by Cedric Peyronnet) we have here a new name, Pierre Juillard. Since I don't know anything about him, I just have to be rely on the music. The last few in this series seemed to be turning away from the pure field recordings work, this new one starts out with a collage-like form of various river sounds, before moving over into a very nicely treated electronic sound from those river recordings. Hard to say what it is that he does. Sometimes we hear bits of the original, but then inside a sort of ambient back-drop, which some might call acousmatic. Atmospheric, a bit dark, a bit moody, and something that works wonderfully well. An excellent piece, reminding me of Lionel Marchetti. So, who the hell this guy? And where can we hear some more? "
Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly number 811
released December 10, 2011
Composé en 2011. Prises de sons : Cédric Peyronnet et Pierre Juillard
Photographs by Yves Lapeyre