Jean-Jacques Perrey

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Jean-Jacques Perrey (born January 20, 1929 - † November 4, 2016 in Lausanne , Switzerland ) was a French composer and a pioneer of electronic music , who had his greatest success as a musician in the United States in the late 1960s .

Life

In 1953, Jean-Jacques Perrey graduated from the Paris Faculty of Medicine after four years. He then turned to music in particular, after he was enthusiastic about the possibilities of the ondioline , a new type of electronic instrument based on electron tubes . Although without any musical training, apart from playing the accordion as a hobby, he was discovered by Georges Jenny, the inventor of the ondioline. At the time, he was looking for a musician who could demonstrate the capabilities of his instrument.

Perrey performed in Europe to promote the ondioline. He made the acquaintance of the singer Charles Trenet and Édith Piaf and accompanied them to concerts. The latter also wrote some of his compositions and recommended him to the New Yorker Carroll Bratman, who invited him to the United States.

In 1960 Perrey traveled to New York. The world novelty of the Ondioline and the accompaniment by Bratman brought him a very quick success. Bratman provided him with a modern studio with which he was able, among other things, to produce advertising jingles and accompanying music. During that time he began working on the LP The Happy Moog . He produced pieces of music and focused specifically on a special recording with organ parts by Rimsky-Korsakov .

In 1964 he made the acquaintance of the composer Gershon Kingsley , whose piece of popcorn later became world famous. Together they produced two albums The In Sound From Way Out and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations . The latter included the song Baroque Hoedown , which was used by Disney for Main Street Electrical Parade in 1972 . In 1968 he released the album The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean-Jacques Perrey , Moog Indigo in 1970 . Then he returned to France and did particular research in therapeutic music .

After a long break, Perrey was again musically active in public from the late 1990s. With Gilbert Sigrist he published Circus of Life in 1999 , with David Chazam in 2000 Eclektronics . Further collaborations and publications followed, as well as concert appearances. In 2016 he met the Australian musician Walter Andre de Backer, better known as Gotye . He founded the Ondioline Orchestra in 2016 to preserve Perrey's musical legacy. de Backer also founded the record label Forgotten Futures in 2017. Its first publication was Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline , a compilation of rare and previously unpublished recordings by Perrey.

Discography

Albums with Kingsley

  • 1966: The In Sound From Way Out
  • 1967: Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight on the Moog

Albums and pieces of music

  • 1957: Prelude au Sommeil [in France]
  • 1959: Cadmus, Le Robot de l'Espace [in France]
  • 1960: Mr. Ondioline [maxi single]
  • 1962: Musique Electronique Du Cosmos
  • 1968: The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey
  • 1969: The Happy Moog
  • 1970: Moog Indigo
  • 1971: Moog Sensations
  • 1972: Moog Expressions
  • 1972: Quadraphonic Demonstration Album - Program 2
  • 1973: Moog Generation
  • 1974: Mig Mag Moog
  • 1978: Dynamoog (with Gilbert Sigrist)
  • 1999: Circus of Life (with Gilbert Sigrist)
  • 2000: Eclektronics (with David Chazam)
  • 2001: Moog Sensations
  • 2006: The Happy Electropop Music Machine (with Dana Countryman)
  • 2007: Moog Acid (with Luke Vibert)
  • 2008: Destination Space (with Dana Countryman)

Compilations

  • 1998 Good Moog - Astral Animations & Komputer Kartoons
  • 2017: Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline

Web links

Commons : Jean-Jacques Perrey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic musical pioneer, dies at 87 in: The Guardian , November 5, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Options Irwin Chusid: Playlist from November 16, 2016 Options . Retrieved March 30, 2020
  3. ↑ Gotye Makes His Return with an Ondioline. Sorry, a what? . Broadsheet (Australia), January 12, 2018, accessed March 30, 2020
  4. ^ Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline . Bandcamp , accessed March 30, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Perrey, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and a pioneer of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1929
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2016
Place of death Lausanne , Switzerland