Pierre-André Arcand

Pierre-André Arcand is certainly active in lots of forms of modern art, from sound poetry and sound art to visible art and digital video. He’s best-known for his macchina ricordi, an accretionary (i.e. loop-based) saving gadget, and his sounding publication. He is an associate from the sound artwork collective Avatar and offers released albums on its associated label Ohm Editions. Arcand started his artwork career new out of university in the middle-’70s from your poetry and visible arts front side. In 1978, he became a member of the Quebec Town performers’ collective Inter/Le Lieu. He released some poetry, but mainly worked as a skill publication editor, occasions organizer, and media happening artist. Specifically, he created some artwork books that centered on the object-book (the very best of the are recorded in the publication part of the recording Les Devices Animales et le Livre Sonore). This function resulted in the creation from the sounding publication (“le livre sonore”), a metallic box “performed” having a microphone as though writing onto it with a pencil. In the middle-’80s Arcand designed the macchina ricordi by using a audio specialist. A tape recorder enabling multiple recording goes by, it marked the start of an extended obsession with appear accretion as well as the progressive transformation of split sound resources over extended periods of time. His audio focus on this machine, combined with the audio publication and his dadaist audio poetry, would create the majority of his single albums Eres+7 (1993, parts recorded mainly in the 1980s), Eres+16 (1995), and Eres+21 (1997). The last mentioned also included a Compact disc booklet-sized reserve Écrire Fait du Bruit (Composing Makes Sound), a assortment of writings from the first ’80s towards the past due ’90s. In 1993, Arcand co-founded the musician collective Avatar in Quebec with Jocelyn Robert and Christof Migone. Built with head office, laboratories, documenting studios, and an archive label (Ohm Editions), it allowed him to build up his esthetic, specifically his mixture of audio and visual artwork in live shows and a knack for radio artwork. By the end from the 10 years, he participated in the Grand Orchestre d’Avatar, a media efficiency group that included Robert, Chantal Dumas, as well as the people of Eltractor. Single, Arcand has shown his function around Canada, the U.S., and European countries. In the first 2000s, he ported the macchina ricordi towards the digital age group. The numeric macchina ricordi explored equivalent looping possibilities using the pc and soon included video manipulation, leading to the release from the audio/video two-CD established Transfuge + Transfuge A/V in 2002.