Brice catherin
BiographIE
Who are you? (Age? Where do you live? What do you do?)
I was born in 1981, I improvise/compose like an old man and dress like a teenager. I live in Huddersfield, notorious for harbouring a prostitution ring of fifteen underage girls (the youngest was 11) from 2004 to 2011, as well as for Felix the station cat, the only feline employee on the entire English rail network. I'll do anything as long as it amuses me.
What is your background? Your musical thinking?
I had a l̵o̵b̵o̵t̵o̵m̵i̵s̵a̵t̵i̵o̵n̵ super-classical musical education: a master's degree in cello and another in composition. Very knowledgeable gentlemen taught me what was right and what was wrong. Unfortunately, some improvisers got in my way one evening on a small, poorly-lit path. Iells shouted (into their saxophone and Paetzold contrabass flute) "freedom or life" and threw weird, unpredictable sounds in my face, and one even hit me with some John Cage. Since then, I've only been doing things that aren't written down, or that are open, or that are
(I pull out a score from time to time just when I'm too lazy to come up with something myself, or to play Ustvloskaya). My recent scores are more like playgrounds, in which the musicians are invited to evolve freely, rather than staves full of notes in which I can watch the performers run around like hamsters in a wheel. The piece planned for Art Zoyd will be no exception to this rule.
How do you know Art Zoyd Studios? What brings you here?
I think I must have heard of him long before Christ, when I was a student. It turns out (careful, suck-up moment) that I've also known Kasper T Toeplitz for six or seven years because I'd been attracted to his scores, which aren't written for hamsters. He explained the project to me and asked me to take part, and I soberly said "with pleasure", without smiling because I hate betraying my emotions. (Besides, it was by e-mail.
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Which composers/musicians have influenced you the most?
Artists who are free and radical at the same time, who invent and make fun of the rules handed down by the gentlemen in the know: Gaston Lagaffe, Jean-Luc Godard and of course Galina Ustvolskaya.
What was the last concert/show that made the biggest impression on you? and where?
Sometimes you go to shows or concerts and say to yourself "that's the way to do it". Three and a half years ago, I saw three dance shows by chance, during which I said to myself "that's the way to do it", and above all "that's the way to do it". I believe that the working method, when you work with others, is just as important as the result, quite simply because this method greatly defines the said result, and as the old proverb I've just invented says, "without ethics there is no aesthetics". (Incidentally, all the people I've worked with over the last few years are artists whose work and way of working I appreciate). I've spoken at length about these working and creative methods elsewhere, so I won't go into too much detail here. The three shows were (in order of discovery):
- In/Utile: Incorporer (Foofwa d'Imobilité and Jonathan O'Hear)
- Nu (Émilia Giudicelli and Ioannis Mandafounis)
- Sing the positions (Manon Parent and Ioannis Mandafounis)
SOON...
IT'S ALREADY PAST!
18
Apr 2024
XPRMNTL Cello (as part of Cello Day at the Phénix in Valenciennes)
@ Mars
| Mons, Belgium
13
Mar 2024
Creation / Depth zones
@ Le phénix, scène nationale
| Valenciennes, France
21
Feb 2024
XPRMNTL Cello (part of Cello Week, March 17-23 at Arsonic.)
@ Mars
| Mons, Belgium
16
Feb 2024
Residency / Depth zones (February 12-16)
@ Art Zoyd Studios
| Valenciennes, France
17
Nov 2023
Residency / Depth zones (November 13-17)
@ Art Zoyd Studios
| Valenciennes, France
26
Oct 2023
Residency / Depth zones (October 23-26)
@ Art Zoyd Studios
| Valenciennes, France
06
Oct 2023
Residency / Depth zones (October 02-06)
@ Centre Henri Pousseur
| Liège, Belgium
28
August 2023
Residence / Depth zones
@ Art Zoyd Studios
| Valenciennes, France