Jérémy Chevalier
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| Biography | Jérémy Chevalier (*1983) is a french composer based in Geneva. He graduated from the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in 2007, under the direction of Maria La Ribot and Yan Duyvendak. As his primary source of inspiration, Chevalier uses rock music. With humor and derision, his objects, installations, performances and videos highlight the instruments, tools, gestures and codes used by the entertainment industry, as well as the by-products, failures and accidents that are characteristic of this industry. His work is often presented in Switzerland as well as internationally, including in Japan and China in 2014, at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes in 2015, and in Lithuania in 2017. In 2018, he took part in the «Motonomy China tour» with Julie Semoroz, with whom he regularly collaborates. The same year, he presented the performance «Chaosphonies» which was shown at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne, as well as «Belluard Bollwerk International» in Friborg in 2019. In 2020, mixing scientific popularization and tragedy, Chevalier produced «Release candidate» at the Théâtre du Grütli during the GO GO GO festival. The following year, he received the Bourse du Commun 2021 de recherche artistique of Geneva, with which he made his first film «l’expérience de Marconi» (currently in editing stage). In parallel, he has been developing «Spirale névrose» since 2020, a project combining music and sound poetry. In 2023, his work was featured at the festival Archipel, in which he presented sound pieces which were based on field recording practices. ABOUT Jérémy Chevalier: «Crystal Capsule» Dragging microphones on the ground, pulling them behind you, making them go on a nice walk. By this action close to the field recording, I try to move away from the perfect recording with quality microphones and return to the earth, to something raw. I create a kind of rough topographic survey, a score of bumps, stones, tar and dead leaves. This score is translated into a score read by an automated drum kit. The beats of the drum kit become a kind of rhythmic pulse, connecting the listener to the natural world in a visceral and tangible way. |
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