© www.pierreclemens.net 2015

Pierre Clemens is a visual & audio artist. His artist statement urges him to experiment and explore permanently. As well in his personal studio in Brussels as in public performances, he uses basic materials made of personal records (Field recording) or sound archives. He uses also broadcast waves in real time with sometimes an addition of music synthetizer. His trend for discovery and mutation, make it difficult to place him in any category or genre. Although one can find some relations with minimalism, noise, ambient, drone, soundscape, etc. He is the autor of 3 albums released in 2008, 2011 & 2014.

Already at the age of thirteen he started some experiments with tapes recordings. But it’s only after his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels that he deepened his sound research by mixing tape recordings with electro-accoustic compositions. He tried to fuse both to create some very special universes which never repeat. Self-taught in the acoustic field, he tries to approach our present musical univers with a genuine perception. He is also willing to build links between his sound creations and his visual artworks (drawings, paintings and videos) This research is today still going on. The soundspace is to him like an echo related to landscape image creation. This landscape is not an oppressing reality, because it comes from a very intimate part of ourself. The landscape is a mental image of our soul. The tension between the microscopic world and the infinite space is at work in these electro-acoustic compositions.

Timeless

© www.pierreclemens.net 2015

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Pierre Clemens is a visual & audio artist. His artist statement urges him to experiment and explore permanently. As well in his personal studio in Brussels as in public performances, he uses basic materials made of personal records (Field recording) or sound archives. He uses also broadcast waves in real time with sometimes an addition of music synthetizer. His trend for discovery and mutation, make it difficult to place him in any category or genre. Although one can find some relations with minimalism, noise, ambient, drone, soundscape, etc. He is the autor of 3 albums released in 2008, 2011 & 2014.

Already at the age of thirteen he started some experiments with tapes recordings. But it’s only after his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels that he deepened his sound research by mixing tape recordings with electro-accoustic compositions. He tried to fuse both to create some very special universes which never repeat. Self-taught in the acoustic field, he tries to approach our present musical univers with a genuine perception. He is also willing to build links between his sound creations and his visual artworks (drawings, paintings and videos) This research is today still going on. The soundspace is to him like an echo related to landscape image creation. This landscape is not an oppressing reality, because it comes from a very intimate part of ourself. The landscape is a mental image of our soul. The tension between the microscopic world and the infinite space is at work in these electro-acoustic compositions.

Diefeld

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EN
Pierre Clemens is a composer as well as a visual artist, born in Brussels 1970. Starting from the visual arts, he has been developing, years by years, a random compositional sound practice. Self-taught, passioneted for innovative music, he is in a permanent search for an enigmatic sound world. His field recordings are spotting tenuous elements of reality to build up a puzzling esthetic. For his last work " Sonora" he has picked up ten pieces of these sound experiments, evolving between noise and musicality in an unstable pattern shifting. Sonora is a recall of what is essential to him : the relations where sound intricate with memory, when the whole body behave as a receptor where sounds awakens impossible remembrances.

FR
Pierre Clemens est un plasticien et compositeur belge né à Bruxelles en 1970. Pour ce dernier opus, Sonora, il a rassemblé en dix titres, l’ensemble de ses inspirations sonores.
Venant au départ du monde des arts plastiques, il a, année après année, développé un ensemble de pratiques compositionnelles basé sur des procédés aléatoires, des enregistrements de type Field recording et une sensibilité aux éléments ténus et une esthétique minimaliste. Autodidacte affirmé, ce passionné de musique nouvelle, pratique une recherche permanente et intense dans la construction d’un univers sonore singulier. Résolument expérimental, ce travail évolue entre bruit et musicalité, dans un échange permanent et instable. « Sonora » est un rappel à ce qui lui semble essentiel : le rapport de la musique et plus largement des phénomènes auditifs avec la mémoire ou le rapport du corps comme réceptacle des phénomènes sonores. Les relations visible/audible aussi sont un autre aspect de ses préoccupations dans ses compositions.
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released 15 September 2015

© Pierre Clemens - Music : Sabam.be - Photo : Sofam.be

Recorded and mixed in Brussels - 2015.
Photo album : Pierre Clemens. 

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GEOMETRY - Free (200 first free download)

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Total time : 67:65 / 9 tracks
Recorded and mixed in Brussels - 2015.
Photo album : Pierre Clemens.

Pierre Clemens is a self-taught composer and performer of his own music. His artist statement urges him to experiment and explore permanently. As well in his personal studio in Brussels as in public performances, he uses basic materials made of personal records (Field recording) or sound archives. He uses also broadcast waves in real time with sometimes an addition of music synthetizer. His trend for discovery and mutation, make it difficult to place him in any category or genre. Although one can find some relations with minimalism, noise, ambient, drone, soundscape, etc. He is the autor of 4 albums released in 2008, 2011, 2014 & 2015.
Already at the age of thirteen he started some experiments with tapes recordings. But it’s only after his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels that he deepened his sound research by mixing tape recordings with electro-accoustic compositions. He tried to fuse both to create some very special universes which never repeat. Self-taught in the acoustic field, he tries to approach our present musical univers with a genuine perception. He is also willing to build links between his sound creations and his visual artworks (drawings, paintings and videos) This research is today still going on. The soundspace is to him like an echo related to landscape image creation. This landscape is not an oppressing reality, because it comes from a very intimate part of ourself. The landscape is a mental image of our soul. The tension between the microscopic world and the infinite space is at work in these electro-acoustic compositions.

GEOMETRY / FREE ALBUM

Recorded and mixed in Brussels - 2015.
Photo album : Pierre Clemens.

Session 20151022

Recorded and mixed in Brussels - 2015.
Photo album : Pierre Clemens.

Pierre Clemens is a self-taught composer and performer of his own music. His artist statement urges him to experiment and explore permanently. As well in his personal studio in Brussels as in public performances, he uses basic materials made of personal records (Field recording) or sound archives. He uses also broadcast waves in real time with sometimes an addition of music synthetizer. His trend for discovery and mutation, make it difficult to place him in any category or genre. Although one can find some relations with minimalism, noise, ambient, drone, soundscape, etc. He is the autor of 4 albums released between 2008 and 2015.
Already at the age of thirteen he started some experiments with tapes recordings. But it’s only after his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels that he deepened his sound research by mixing tape recordings with electro-accoustic compositions. He tried to fuse both to create some very special universes which never repeat. Self-taught in the acoustic field, he tries to approach our present musical univers with a genuine perception. He is also willing to build links between his sound creations and his visual artworks (drawings, paintings and videos) This research is today still going on. The soundspace is to him like an echo related to landscape image creation. This landscape is not an oppressing reality, because it comes from a very intimate part of ourself. The landscape is a mental image of our soul. The tension between the microscopic world and the infinite space is at work in these electro-acoustic compositions.

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