Kristoff K. Roll

In the surroundings of French electro-acoustic music, Kristoff K. Move stands as you very uncommon object. Long-lasting organizations are rare within this field, however the originality of the duo will go beyond that: they mix regular electro-acoustic music on support mass media with live improvisation. Furthermore, the group’s flavor for travel, different civilizations, and sociopolitical commentary supply the music a more participating form compared to the colder functions appearing out of educational circles. It’s poetic and it’s really food for believed. Kristoff K. Move is among the most gorgeous musical UFOs brought forth from the legacy of Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète. Carole Rieussec and Jean-Christophe Camps had been both created in the 1960s, 5,000 kilometers aside. They both analyzed acousmatics in Lyon with Denis Dufour, however they missed one another by a couple of years. Both started to function in electro-acoustic music in the past due ’80s (Rieussec caused Luc Ferrari from 1988 to 1995 in the studio room La Muse en Circuit). In 1990, they finished up in the same group, Les Arènes du Vinyle, a Parisian improv sextet. They struck a specialist and personal romantic relationship almost instantly and created Kristoff K. Move giving their became a member of first titles a mutated spelling. Right away, the duo centered on pidgin methods to sound-based music, whether it is researching to expand the usage of the musique concrète studio room and take it to the level or even to explore additional cultures. In Dec 1990 they journeyed to Central America, returning to Paris per month later using their bags filled with recorded noises. They done Corazon Street, their audio travel journal, for just two years, liberating the collection in 1993 (reissued by Empreintes DIGITALes in 1999). This piece well known the tape music format. Another trip, this time around to Traditional western Africa in 1994, offered the basic materials for Le Petit Bruit ? Côté du Coeur du Monde, where Kristoff K. Move explored unique phantasms and the original oral type of conversation. In each functionality over another seven years, they might “inform” the same tale while integrating variants. Premiered at Musique Actions in 1995, it has truly gone through nine different levels and has included tape music, free of charge improv, dance, and juggling. Two variants (5 and 7) had been finally released in 2002 on Vand’oeuvre. Using samplers, loudspeaker systems, and a range of discovered items and real-time consumer electronics, Kristoff K. Move also works together with various other improvisers, specifically clarinetist Xavier Charles (their trio La Pièce arrived in 1999), Lê Quan Ninh, Marc Sens, Pascal Battus, and fellow electro-acoustician Laurent Grappe. Rieussec and Camps sometimes perform single, but the majority of their energies and imagination are centered on their duo.