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The Squid's Ear Magazine
The Squid's Ear Magazine

Pierre Gerard / Bruno Duplant

Support Surface

Pierre Gerard / Bruno Duplant: Support Surface (Ftarri)

Inspired by the French Supports/Surfaces art movement, Belgian improviser Pierre Gerard on guitar, voice, and electronics joins French experimental musician Bruno Duplant on electroacoustic devices for 11 restrained compositions that balance sparse gestures, electronic textures, and carefully placed silences, creating delicate sound environments that emphasize subtle variations in resonance, texture, and space.
 

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Pierre Gerard-guitar, voice, electronics

Bruno Duplant-electroacoustic devices

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Label: Ftarri
Catalog ID: ftarri-928
Squidco Product Code: 37909

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Japan
Packaging: Cardstock Gatefold Sleeve
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"pierre gerard born in 1966 (BE)

i work minimalism with acoustic instruments and electro-acoustic guitar since 2006 ..the object always present was at the center of my first research ..added a new interest in abstract voice since 2017 ..

the improvisation in situ is the source of my music work (outdoor or architectural) ..over time i could describe this research more intuitive than minimalist ..in my electroacoustic compositions i try not to lose sight of intuition, silence,and a certain form of minimalism ..

work on the object is strongly influenced by the presence of wood (assemblage/assembling, sculpture, installation _'the force fields of wood') but also glass, leather, felt and other natural materials (if possible found or recycled) ..

in objects we would sometimes see sound compositions in 3 dimensions ..besides the intuition present here too, i keep a special attention for the encounter between human gesture and the form (organic, natural, accidental ..& intuitive, minimalist) ..

each of these disciplines can occupy the architectural space,place par excellence of the gesture and the shape _'the gesture in the shape' ..

storage stolen images in the form of paint traces the human migrations mental and physical ..who can inspire my path or express my disagreement .."

-Pierre Gerard Website (https://pierregerard.eu/)
11/12/2026

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"Bruno Duplant is a composer, improviser and multi-instrumentist (double bass, percussion, electronics, phonography...) living in the north of France. He has collaborated with lot of instrumentalists around the globe and has also made solo works for such labels as B-Boim, Engraved Glass, Peira, Ilse, Impulsive Habitat, Con-v, Unfathomless, Et le feu comme matière formatable technologiquement, Audiotong, Insubordinations and his own label curated with Pedro Chambel, Rhizome.s...

For him, composing, playing, improvising music is like imagining, creating and sometimes decomposing new spaces/realities, new entities. But it is also a reflection on 'memory', not the historic one, but a memory of all things, spaces & moments.

His new works, mostly based on phonographies & graphic scores, perfectly reflect that."

-Another Timbre (http://www.anothertimbre.com/az8.html)
11/12/2026

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