Guy De Bièvre
Bending The Tonic (Twice)
2005 release ** "The author's premises: `Bending The Tonic is a 12²-bar blues or what happens if you read Schönberg while listening to Bukka White`. We have already talked about Guy De Bièvre, a musician who commutes between Belgium and New York, reviewing the excellent “Manhattan [linear, circular, lateral]”, a portrait of the historic district of the `Big Apple` based on ambient recordings. On the surface, and when listening, this new creation, a composition performed by an instrumental group,…
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Manhattan [Linear, Circular, Lateral]
2004 release (light storage wear) ** "Guy De Bièvre, a Belgian composer and guitarist, worked in the urban environment of New York until he focused on a particular sound frequency (60 Hz), then isolated it and assembled it in the various sequences that make up this portrait of Manhattan. The various compositions go to `simulate` different auditory approaches: linear - simulation of a walk on Broadway, approximately from 123rd Street to Battery Park; circular - simulation of listening from the to…