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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.

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  • Deep Gray Organics (CD, Geometrik-Microgama, 1999)

 

 
 
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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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