Valentin Clastrier

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Valentin Clastrier (* 1947 in Nice ) is a French improvising musician, he plays electro-acoustic alto hurdy-gurdy and lives in Ennordres in the Cher département .

life and work

Clastrier played from 1968 to 1969 in the musical Der Mann von La Mancha ( L'Homme de la Mancha ), with Jacques Brel in the title role, and around 1970 for several years with the French singer and music comedian Ricet Barrier .

The musician with classical training on the trumpet switched to the hurdy-gurdy around 1970. In doing so, he approached the instrument without using the traditional repertoire usually associated with the hurdy-gurdy in France. In 1987 he became "the other hurdy-gurdy player"; Together with the instrument maker Denis Siorat , he worked on a significant further development of the hurdy-gurdy. Since 2006 Clastrier has been developing another prototype with Wolfgang Weichselbaumer . The new instrument opens up completely new possibilities in sound dynamics and playing technique, especially in the acoustic area.

His early music was shaped by Asian influences ( La vielle à roue de l'imaginaire , 1982 - Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles-Cros ) and developed towards more experimental sounds ( Hérésie , 1992). Clastrier primarily combines the playing technique of the hurdy-gurdy with elements of jazz .

In his book La vielle & l'univers de l'infinie roue-archet , he develops a new perspective on the hurdy-gurdy, he describes his technique of the keyboard and the line or the right hand, as well as a writing system for complete notation. This “non-methodical method” is the result of many years of development, while the Clastrier, in contact with contemporary music (for example by Olivier Messiaen ), developed a new practice of the instrument.

Thanks to his virtuosity and technical innovations, Valentin Clastrier is now considered the undisputed master of the instrument. Since 1984 he has been the holder of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres order awarded by the French Ministry of Culture .

Discography

  • La vielle à roue de l'imaginaire (1982)
  • Les esprits de la nuit (1987, Auvidis), with the Philarmonistes de Châteauroux et Migrations
  • Grands maîtres de la vielle à roue (1987)
  • Hérésie ( Silex 1991) with Michael Riessler , Louis Sclavis , Michel Godard , Jean-Louis Matinier , Gérard Siracusa
  • Nos amis les hommes 423 (1992), with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet (Un drame musical instantané, Opération Blow-Up )
  • Michael Riessler: Héloise (1993), with Michel Godard, Rabih Abou-Khalil , Brigitte Sylvestre, Gaston Sylvestre, Jean-Louis Matinier, Renaud Garcia-Fons , Gérard Siracusa, Carlo Rizzo
  • Le bûcher des silences (Silex 1994), with Godard, Matinier, Riesler, Siracusa
  • Michael Riessler: Tentations d'Abélard (1995), with Godard, Marco Ambrosini , Brigitte and Gaston Sylvestre, Matinier, Garcia-Fons, Siracusa, Rizzo, Robby Ameen
  • Palude (1995), with Michael Riessler and Carlo Rizzo
  • Holl a-grevret (2002), live, with the ensemble of Denez Prigent
  • Irvi (2002), with the ensemble of Denez Prigent
  • Sarac'h (2003), with the ensemble of Denez Prigent
  • Le Roman de Renart (2004) with Jean Rochefort as narrator
  • Baldo Martínez Projecto Miño (2007), with Maite Dono, Germán Díaz , Chiaki Mawatari , David Herrington, Antonio Bravo, Alejandro Pérez, Pedro López, Carlos Castro
  • Les chants de Mandrin (2010) Soundtrack to a film by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
  • Valentin Clastrier (2013, Innacor Records)

Book publications

  • La vielle & l'univers de l'infinie roue-archet , Modal, coll. "Etudes" (2006), with DVD, ISBN 2-910432-36-X

Lexigraphic entries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.valentinclastrier.com ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biography @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.valentinclastrier.com
  2. ^ Ricet Barrier
  3. ↑ La vielle & l'univers de l'infinie roue-archet , see publications

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personal data
SURNAME Clastrier, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice