upcoming

March 4 2018, 5pm
Beursschouwburg, Brussels

Peter Zummo: Deep Slide
performed by Peter Zummo, trombone - Tom Skinner, percussion - Guy De Bièvre, lap steel guitar - Johan Vandermaelen, electronics/processing
Kraak


March 22 2018, 8.30pm
Experimental Intermedia Foundation
224 Centre Street
NY 10013 New York
212 431 5127

Guy De Bièvre: Drone Shyness
performed by Guy De Bièvre, lap steel guitar and Peter Zummo, trombone
Experimental Intermedia Foundation
listen to a recording of the concert


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The Relative Probability of Foming a Knot

The Relative Probability of Forming a Knot (2009) recorded live at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York,December 18 2009 (mp3)
[Guy De Bièvre, lap steel; Guy Klucevsek, accordion; JD Parran, reeds and flutes; Peter Zummo, trombone] + soundscape

The Relative Probability of Forming a Knot (2009) recorded live at Karnatic Lab, Amsterdam, November 10 2009 (mp3)
[Guy De Bièvre, lap steel; Anne La Berge, flute and Xavier Verhelst, bass] + soundscape
you can also see an excerpt of the concert at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on youtube

Blue Light/Red Light

Blue Light/Red Light (2007) recorded live at Karnatic Lab in Amsterdam, February 12 2008 (mp3)
[Guy De Bièvre, lap steel; Anne La Berge, flute] + active electronics

Blue Light/Red Light (2007) recorded live at Diapason, Brooklyn, NY, October 24 2007 (mp3)
[Guy De Bièvre, lap steel; Peter Zummo, trombone, tuba] + active electronics




Guy De Bièvre (º Brussels, 1961)

Composer, arranger, musician, sound engineer, sound designer and sound art curator.

My music has been commissioned and/or performed by musicians such as Guy Klucevsek, Seth Josel, Anne La Berge, The Bozza Mansion Project, Gene Carl, Annette Sachs, Zivatar Trio, Zwerm and various local and international organizations.
'Polka Dots and Laser Beams' was recorded by Guy Klucevsek and the Ain't Nothin' But a Polka Band and issued on CD on the Japanese Eva label (and soon to be re-issued on the Starkland label) and the Italian Pierrot Lunaire label; Bending the Tonic (a double CD) and The Very Slow Disco Suite were issued by Canal Street Records; other works have been recorded and broadcasted by the Flemish Public Radio. In 2002 a collaboration with Phill Niblock was published on the Ringtones CD (Touch).

Currently I am again active as a performer (guitar and lap steel), which recently resulted in collaborations with composers Phill Niblock, Tom Hamilton and Peter Zummo.

As a composer/performer I focus on open form composition, which was also the topic of the PhD I obtained at the School of Arts, Brunel University, London.

Next to all this I am teaching (LUCA, school of Arts, Brussels), freelancing as a writer, sound engineer, sound designer and consultant. I just finished (2018) the sound design for the film Night Has Come by Peter Van Goethem. I was the curator of the audio art series Earwitness at CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non Objective Art) and INTERVAL in Gent and of the Culture Mile in Enschede, Holland (first installment in November 2008 (Bill Fontana)).

You can read or download the text from a lecture I gave on my work at the KGNM in Cologne back in May 2005: kgnm lecture

and a more recent text following a residency at Stichting STEIM in Amsterdam can be read here: optocoupling research
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recent publications:
From B to A, from a Performer's Perspective in Phill Niblock - Working Title (Les Presses du Réel, 2012, ISBN 978-2-84066-423-9)

A Full Void in Voids, a retrospective
(2009, JRP Ringier, ISBN 978-3-03764-017-3)

The Quest for the Sonorous Absolute in Charlemagne Palestine: Sacred Bordello
(2003, Black Dog Publishing, London, ISBN 1-9010333-79-1)

-Geluidskunst, een subjectieve historiek
-Geluidskunst anno 2006, waar zijn we aan toe?
in Achtergrond, De Brakke Grond

Manhattan [linear, circular, lateral] (CD)

Bending the Tonic (CD)

Very Slow Disco Suite (CD)

distributed by Pogus Records

Harbouring Sound (CD)

a collaboration with Victoria Carolan, published as a limited edition multiple and distributed exclusively by CCNOA

A 1988 interview with Armand Schwerner and a brief essay on his work published on:
PennSound
the site also offers audio files of Armand Schwerner reading a number of his Tablets, and a 1973 film by Phill Niblock!