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Belgian, although living in Barcelona, Alain
Wergifosse has developed a long career in the field of electronic
creation in real time, specialising in the improvisation during
performances using different sources of sound such as machines,
objects, natural environments, instruments and musicians; where
everything is done by opposing the common idea of conventional sampling
with the radical use of transformation and manipulation as working
tools.
His curriculum shows a long list of appearances and collaborations
in concerts and CDs with names such as Cluster, Macromassa, Hiroshi
Kobayashi, Martin Hug, Sergi Jordá, Nad Spiro, Albert Giménez, Pelayo
F. Arrizabalaga, Joan Saura, Enric Cervera, Música Veneno, Alfredo
Costa Monteiro and Dj Zero amongst others.
Amongst his many projects shines the wild improvisation combo Obmuz,
"power trio" along with Eli Gras (bass) and Quicu Samsó (drums)
in which Wergifosse is in charge of the electronic components. Besides,
he has composed the music for the multimedia play "Afasia" and for
the interactive installation "Epifanía", both by Marcel.lí Antúnez
(ex-Fura dels Baus).
But "Deep Gray Organics" (CD, Geometrik-Microgama, 1999), one of
the best CDs of experimental electronic edited in our country, is
without a doubt the most significant work by Alain Wergifosse: eleven
improvisations, the majority of them recorded in live between Obmuz's
rehearsal sessions, where Wergifosse spontaneously combines, playing
with chance, harmony, distortions and peculiar rhythmic sequences.
Complex electronic atmospheres, dense, with a great tonality and
expressive force, sometimes dark and claustrophobic, whilst delicate
and introspective at other times.
F. Metamars
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"Alain Wergifosse is an extraordinary manipulator
of sounds who has been requested by a great deal of avant-garde
musicians and bands such as the legendary Cluster, DJ Zero and also
for collaborating in the recent spectacles of Marcel.li Antunez
and Macromassa, among others. That is, although 'Deep Gray Organics'
was the first CD that he had published under his own name, Wergifosse
wasn't exactly a beginner. It is not very usual to find in present
day's electronics panorama such a fierceness and an emphatic desire
to express oneself like the ones found in this album. The eleven
themes -as mentioned in the cover- are spontaneous improvisations
and compositions, and this could be the reason of the strength of
the album. The timbric richness contained in 'Deep Gray Organics'
can even crush: voices, instruments, noises... Anything susceptible
to be turned into melody, harmony, background and rhythm. As a radical
opponent to the conventional idea of sampling, his idea of appropiation
would be closer to what concrete music tried to be in previous times,
that is, the natural or daily sounds generated by the voice or by
any other instrument, should be transformed and manipulated before
being performed. Alain Wergifosse's intelligence transforms something
-that in other's hands would lead us up to catalepsy - into an auditory
experience with a grand aesthetic and emotive intensity." (F.O.S.
- AJOBLANCO)
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