• Source: Poire z

poire_z (pronounced "pwar-zed") was an electronic free improvisation music group formed in 1998. Its members all have long careers in improvised music; critic Fred Grand of Avant calls poire_z a "post-AMM supergroup."




Band history


At a music festival at Nantes, France in 1998, percussionist Gunter Muller and turntablist Erikm were scheduled to perform as a duo. The same festival featured a performance by duo Voice Crack. The four musicians made an unscheduled collaboration, and afterwards formed a semi-regular quartet.
They recorded several albums and made a number of live appearances before disbanding. poire_z often invited a fifth musician as a guest: Keith Rowe, Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M and others performed or recorded with the core quartet.
As with much free improvisation, poire_z's music is generally focused more on a group sound, and given the musicians' unorthodox approach to their instruments, it is often difficult to discern who is generating any individual sound. Aside from glimpses of Muller's occasionally unprocessed percussion, their music is nearly all electronic blips, clicks and droning like a shortwave radio tuned in to an extraterrestrial broadcast; critic Ed Howard described the group's music as "all whir and purr and throb, the soldered electronic exclamations of the Voice Crack duo spurting around the steady rhythmic drive of Muller and eRikm ... a dense cycling drone with harsh electronic interjections skipping over the top." One piece is described as "delicate tones, crackles and light bubbling sounds, resting and intermingling with characteristic weightlessness, only occasionally being interrupted by glimpses of harsher textures."
Voice Crack formally disbanded in about 2004, and poire_z have not recorded or performed since.




Personnel


Erikm: 3K-PAD∞System
Gunter Muller: percussion, effects
Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang (who recorded as Voice Crack) on homemade electronics.




Discography


1999 : Poire_Z - For4ears records
2001 : Presque_Chic - Sonoris
2002 : + - with Otomo Yoshihide • Sachiko M • Christian Marclay - Erstwhile Records
2004 : Q - Poire Z's last performance, with guest vocalist Phil Minton
Sampler
2000 : mottomo otomo - Trost Records
2000 : Hairles_handle - The Wire tapper 6
2002 : fb50" - fals.ch
2004 : The Wire Tapper 11 Poire_z + phil Minton - The Wire tapper 11
2008 : A SHORT HISTORY 2000-2005- Contemporary Art And Sound . Dolmen

Post-Poire_Z
Since 2004 Günter Müller & Norbert Moslang have also collaborated in trio or quartet.
2002 : Buda Rom Voice Crack & Günter Müller - For4ears
2003 : Oystered Voice Crack & Günter Müller & Oren Ambarchi - Audiosphere sub Rosa
2011 : Stodgy Erikm & Norbert Möslang - Mikroton Recordings
2016 : Pavillon du Lac with Günter Müller + Norbert Möslang + Erikm - Dolmen
Sampler
2011 : Mikroton eRikm / Norbert Möslang - Mikroton
2011 : Below The Radar eRikm / Norbert Möslang - The Wire
2005 : t-u-b-e / gebeugt 2005 Norbert Möslang / eRikm - Wergo

Pre-Poire_Z
1982 : Knack On - Norbert Möslang & Andy Guhl
1990 : Voice Crack – "Earflash" - V-Records, Uhlang Produktion
1996 : Table Chair and Hatstand - Voice Crack + Günter Müller + Jim O’Rourke - Uhlang Production




References

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