GENESIS :
Jean-Luc Guionnet and Claire Bergerault have been working as an organ/voice duo in various churches since 2007. The challenge being, each time, first of all to adapt to the configuration of the building and the organ; and then to stretch their music on the breach of this singularity.
AIRS TROUVÉS:
The melodic forms, when they arrive, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Claire Bergerault approach them in the manner of a found air as one speaks of a found object. At the crossroads of attention, to the detail of the voice and what is unique about this organ — such an unusual register, such an impossible chord, such a disagreement on such a key with such an orchestration. As if the timbre, when you listen to it as closely as possible, induces a set of lines that would have to be drawn.
These tunes are ultimately found through experimentation and it is the structure taken by the search that profiles the result.
"Previously our music was inhabited by abstraction, by going towards these found tunes, we opened up to a concreteness that we might want to touch with our fingers: rather simple forms, which neither we want nor we don't want, and that once in hand, we work with the air of a slight relentlessness ... a relentlessness that goes with big holes and long full ones, suspense in both, then dives inside long turnings, bringing us closer to traditions very little known to us, or half-dreamt of, that usually keep close to them the weathered old people and the noise of the work of dancing clogs.
