I met Pierre Henry sevceral times. I even went to hear gigs at his home in Paris.
What i learned from him is that you can start from sound and compose from sound
actions. that you can hear the gesture. I tend to use "sequences jeu" in my own
work now. The title "The Prepared Recorder" is an evocation of the fact that
both Pierre Henry and John Cage invented the Prepared Piano at the same time.
The track is 4'33" long. so we have come full circle.

Biography :

david fenech has recorded concrete music at la muse en circuit with laurent sellier,
at the coream studio with claude hermitte. contributed to many compilations on tape, cd
or vynile format. he recently worked at the IRCAM instution in paris, was in residency
in studios such as STEIM (holland) and INA/GRM. he now works on software programming for
L-Acoustics. as a soloist, david fenech plays guitar and ukulele as well as small instruments
such as melodica, cavaquinho, toy piano and xylophone. as an improviser he played with musicians
such as rhys chatham, berangere maximin, james plotkin, felix kubin, jad fair, tom cora,
gino robair, ramona cordova, erikm, andrea parkins, shugo tokumaru, ghedalia tazartes,
jac berrocal and many others.
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