L'Itinéraire & Léo Margue - Jean-Luc Hervé: Germination (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Since 2003, Jean-Luc Hervé has produced a number of pieces, which he calls concert-installations and which stand at the edge of the concert hall and its exterior, or are frankly conceived for specific outdoor locations. His desire to confront an institutional space (the concert hall) with its public extension was influenced by his understanding of two aesthetic experiences. The first was his discovery of Japanese gardens in Kyoto, while in residence at Villa Kujoyama. “During my stay in Kyoto in 2001,” he writes, “I was struck by the relationship between art and nature in Japan, and more particularly by the way in which the highly constructed architectures of the gardens are conceived in relation to their natural surroundings.” Indeed, all the elements of the garden – stones, bushes, elements of the built environment – are placed according to the views they provide by framing the landscape, and the Japanese, to define this specific relationship, speak of capturing the landscape. A second influence is Edgard Varèse’s Déserts for ensemble and tape (1954). The work consists of four instrumental episodes separated by three “interpolations of organized sounds” fixed on magnetic tape. In a different way, this work also links two different places: the concert hall, where we listen to the instrumental ensemble, and the composer’s own studio, where the sounds were recorded.

Tracklist:
01. Hervé- Germination (2013) for 12 musicians and electronics
02. Hervé- Topos (2022) for 8 musicians and electronics- 1. Objets Animés
03. Hervé- Topos (2022) for 8 musicians and electronics- 2. Les êtres du Rêve
04. Hervé- Topos (2022) for 8 musicians and electronics- 3. Analogies
05. Hervé- Topos (2022) for 8 musicians and electronics- 4. Nature
06. Hervé- Au dehors (2008) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano


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