This shakuhachi and live electronics improvisation was streamed live at 5:31am on Saturday 1 May 2021 from River Lea, East London as part of Reveil Soundcamp (@soundtent) and in celebration of International Dawn Chorus Day. 

I had been returning to the same spot on the River Lea to play with the birds and the land every week for five weeks earlier in the spring, witnessing the broadening of the day and the arrival of the various inhabitants of that place, and finding my place within it.

Shakuhachi music is not defined by consistency of pitch and rhythm, but by blending the musical and the non-musical, inviting the sounds of the breath and imperfections in the construction of the instrument into its aesthetic. By letting those sounds in, we open up possibilities for listening to the world around us in different ways, creating a musical experience that includes the non-human.

Reveil Sound Camp 2021

River Lea x shakuhachi

Music for an amazing lighting installation, Light Towers, by Bruce Munro at Paso Robles, Sensorio, California. The music was recorded during lockdown with nine wonderful singers, a mixture of written music and improvisation.

Solar

Hervé Perez - alto and soprano saxophone + sound design
Robert Nedelcu - drone moog synth
Alex Hegyesi (Shanyio)- guzheng, korg monotron, sound design, percussion, theremin, shakuhachi, fx, mixing

Recorded in 2022 in Timișoara, Freidorf (Romania)& Sheffield (UK).
https://shanyio.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-birds

Cosmic Birds

For ""A box of cloud", 
I used my latest invented instrument, the Mosesa15 to record with and Paulo Chagas used his bass clarinet.
Listen to how we push dynamics, timbre and tone to make this piece work.
It was initiated as an exchange of musical gifts to each other and for us.
You can get the album here on BandCamp:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/for-us-para-n-s

A box full of cloud

Where Do You Go?

For A Father / Dirge for Europe (feat. Daniel Franck & Aaron Parks)

Saturn's Return (feat. Daniel Franck)

sounding out St Peters Humshaugh
extracts from an improvisation recorded on location, 02 august 2024.

hervé perez, alto saxophone, ©2024

sounding out – is the practice of deep listening, a connection with the spirit of a place.
these recordings are explorations of outdoor acoustics and sacred sites, investigating the nature of space and architecture, natural topography.

find more recordings of sounding out:
https://nexttimestudio.wordpress.com/

sounding out

high force

high force [Humshaugh august 2024]

GAÏA

A piece I composed performed on prepared piano. Changes the whole thing and still takes me by surprise when I hear it. Using this one as a theme in a play I'm working on.

Typewriter tattoo

Prepared piano - Beach gamelan

Artist: Gus Garside and Hervé Perez
Album: The Unexpected Visitor
Label: Orbit577 (577 Records)
File Under: Experimental / Avantgarde
Release Date:
Cat#: OR5009
Format: Ltd edition CD (50)
Barcode:
CD-ORB5-OR5009

GUS GARSIDE AND HERVÉ PEREZ
THE UNEXPECTED VISITOR

1- The Guide (1:36)
 2- The Seeker (10:01) 
3- The Cook (4:50) 
4- The Lover (7:30) 
5- The Gardener (4:54) 
6- The Dancer (3:03) 
7- The Maker (8:39) 
8- The Teacher (5:58) 
9- The Keeper (7:00) 
10- The Poet (12:53)

Gus Garside - Double bass 
Hervé Perez - Saxophone

Recorded by Hervé Perez & Gus Garside, in March-May 2020
The first session recorded in Brighton, UK. Subsequent sessions recorded with both players in their own homes, while improvising in real time online, connected via low-latency software.

Mixed by Hervé Perez
Mastered by Hervé Perez at nexttime studios

Photo by Hervé Perez
Album design by Mark Smith

All music by Gus Garside (PRS) and Hervé Perez, 2020

Orbit577
www.577records.com/orbit577

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

Meeting for the first time as an acoustic duo in their collaborative album, The Unexpected Visitor, UK-based musicians Gus Garside and Hervé Perez explore the musical interpretations of a 13th Century Poem, “The Guest House” by Rumi. The album captures a series of improvisations played between March and May 2020, before and during the official UK lockdowns, some recorded in the same room together, some individually by each musician at home. This album is a selection of music from their original session and their telematic at-home improvisations, woven together by Rumi’s naturally evolving poetic narrative. Informed by the practice of deep listening, the musicians composed the album with angular melodic lines and abstract passages, exploring the resonant qualities and structural design of the saxophone and double bass. The tracks offer reflective and inviting duets, embodying the transient curiosity and sincere openness of the poem they’re inspired by, “This being human is a guest house / Every morning a new arrival.”

Gus Garside and Hervé Perez 'The Seeker' from album 'The Unexpected Visitor'

An investigation of the effect of stroke, made by dismantling a clarinet. The dismantled clarinets are played by Sarah Homer. The vocal contributions are by Liz Mansfield. A contribution to Rosetta Life's massive project Stroke Odysseys.

Stroke Odysseys

The Dismantled Clarinet

[sounding out] saxophone architecture acoustics deep listening

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