Gilbert Quélennec, A few influences
in a few words
(version augmentée le 09.03.2025)
Gilbert Quélennec
Influence 14: Les Anomalies
À côté de mon intérêt musical pour les faits connus, je travaille également sur ce qui est imprévu, étonnant (insolite), étrange, invisible, improbable, impossible, incompréhensible, incohérent, impensable , ce qui se dévoile..
Les Anomalies dans l'environnement ( phénomènes à la cinématique étrange, etc. ), Experienceurs expériencés, phénomènes entre le naturel et l'artificiel, etc
Les Anomalies dans la politique avec par exemple les algocrates qui veulent généraliser l'IA dans la société, ou l'absence d'une politique écologique, etc
Et d'autres Anomalies..
Gilbert Quélennec
Influence 14: Anomalies
Alongside my musical interest in known facts, I also work on the unexpected, the surprising (unusual), the strange, the invisible, the improbable, the impossible, the incomprehensible, the incoherent, the unthinkable, what reveals itself..
Anomalies in the environment (phenomena with strange kinematics, etc.), experienced experiencers, phenomena between the natural and the artificial, etc.
Anomalies in politics with, for example, algocrats who want to generalise AI in society, or the absence of an green politics, etc.
And other Anomalies..
voir également: Quelques influences
Gilbert Quélennec
Influence 13: Allan Holdsworth
Ce qui m'a le plus influencé chez Allan Holdsworth, c'était sa volonté d'être libre, d'aller en dehors des approches conventionnelles..
Extrait de l'un de ses entretiens, à propos de Tesla : "It's about this particular tower and Nikola Tesla. I was intrigued when I read the big book with his patents and everything. He seemed to be a guy who was doing things, being really creative and it seemed he wasn't in the right time to be doing what he was doing. Although what he did contributed to everyone and everyone benefited, not many people actually know he was responsible for all the things he did. When I started working on that track Wardenclyffe Tower, I had this idea of Tesla in his workshop. So, when I finished that piece, I thought well, that would be a good title for the whole record." https://www.innerviews.org/inner/holdsworth-1
J'ai donné un entretien autour de l'envie d'Holdsworth d'aller le plus loin possible dans ses improvisations: entretien avec Gilbert Quélennec sur les improvisations d'Allan Holdsworth, dans l'émission Guitare passion de David Marnay , Radio fidélité, septembre 2019
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What influenced me most about Allan Holdsworth, was his willingness to be free, to go beyond conventional approaches...
Extract from one of his interviews, about Tesla: “It's about this particular tower and Nikola Tesla. I was intrigued when I read the big book with his patents and everything. He seemed to be a guy who was doing things, being really creative and it seemed he wasn't in the right time to be doing what he was doing. Although what he did contributed to everyone and everyone benefited, not many people actually know he was responsible for all the things he did. When I started working on that track Wardenclyffe Tower, I had this idea of Tesla in his workshop. So, when I finished that piece, I thought well, that would be a good title for the whole record.” https://www.innerviews.org/inner/holdsworth-1
I gave an interview about Holdsworth's desire to go as far as possible in his improvisations: interview with Gilbert Quélennec on Allan Holdsworth's improvisations, in David Marnay's Guitare passion program, Radio fidélité, September 2019
voir également: Quelques influences
Gilbert Quélennec
Influence 12: Christian Prigent
J'ai découvert la poésie de Christian Prigent par l'intermédiaire des propos de Pierre Bourdieu, lors d'une émission ou conférence (dans mon souvenir , il avait parlé de Cadiot et de Prigent)
Par la suite, j'ai lu avec beaucoup d'enthousiasme ses essais, poésies et chroniques et je l'avais invité à présenter ses chroniques Le monde est marrant (vu à la télé) et à lire des textes de son choix (comme Demain je meurs), le 30 mai 2009, voir plus bas pour des vidéos. ( Lire mon compte rendu de ses chroniques Le monde est marrant (vu à la télé) sur le blog de Médias Critique )
Voir le groupe FB: Autour de Christian Prigent que j'avais créé pour soutenir son travail (groupe toujours actif)
Vidéos: extraits de l' intervention de Christian Prigent
présentation par Gilbert Quélennec
Christian PRIGENT autour de son livre «Le monde est marrant (vu à la télé) »
(à l'invitation de Gilbert Quélennec pour Kraken Art). La Maison de quartier du Moulin Vert , Quimper, dans le cadre du Forum Social de Cornouaille samedi 30 mai 2009
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9g4zf
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9g67b
voir également influences
Gilbert Quélennec
Influence 11: Carlo Rovelli
Après plusieurs années à chercher des avancées en physique qui pouvaient m'intéresser, j'en suis arrivé comme d'autres à la Loop quantum gravity
L'approche de Rovelli qui consiste à décrire les systèmes physiques les uns par rapport aux autres, rejoint mes pensées musicales
Plusieurs de ses recherches m'ont permis d'aller plus loin dans mon travail et peuvent se retrouver dans certaines de mes avancées
After several years of looking for advances in physics that would interest me, I came to the Loop Quantum Gravity like others.
Rovelli's approach, which consists in describing physical systems in relation to each other, joins my musical thoughts
Several of his researches allowed me to go further in my work and can be found in some of my advances
voir également: Quelques influences
Gilbert Quélennec
Influence 10: Jean-Claude Risset
Les musiques & recherches du grand Risset influencent indirectement mes explorations. J''ai eu la chance qu'il passe me voir en 1998, après des échanges par courrier, on a eu une discussion très intéressante sur la musique et l'histoire des sciences, on a également parlé de ce que je nomme des Ailleurs et Anomalies..
The music and research of the great Risset indirectly influence my explorations. I was lucky enough to have him visit me in 1998, and after some correspondence, we had a very interesting discussion about music and the history of science, as well as about what I call Elsewhere and Anomalies...
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In recent years, there have been a number of scientific publications on archaeoastronomy.
I generally record music based on field work, but since my field is the imaginary, I take liberties...
I regularly evoke the link between music and the cosmos in radio broadcasts (Gilbert Quélennec, interviewed by Jeff Lagoutte, for his Flèche Sensible program (a radio program about creative music)).
This influence can be found in my project UniverS
to accompany this interest in the cosmos, I created a dedicated group on fb Musique et Cosmos
for music about archaeoastronomy, see Bandcamp: Gilbert Quélennec, musiques autour de l'archéoastronomie
The influence of his paintings can be seen in various experimental improvisations, such as the recent Lumières et Villes Submergées. Lumières and Villes Submergées (and some older ones).
His impulsive, self-reflexive practice could not but resonate with my improvised work.
His impersonal approach is also reflected in my idea of Assemblages impersonnels
I began reading and re-reading Jacques Bouveresse after the publication of his book of interviews with Jean-Jacques Rosat , Le philosophe et le réel (The Philosopher and the Real).
I integrate certain contributions of his philosophy into my sounds and texts, or use them in a musical way.
The importance of his philosophical research is at the origin of a blog about his work and a group on FB.
It was after reading a few articles by Inès Champey (Art Critic) that I took another look at the work of Saytour, Devautour, Piffaretti, Laurette, Rouvillois, Fraser, etc. (see Inès Champey 's publications).(consult Inès Champey's publications)
One evening in January 1994, I heard Bourdieu and Haacke on a television program (Pierre Bourdieu et Hans Haacke à propos de Libre échange , Le cercle de minuit - 20/01/1994), and I thought they had understood everything...
Bourdieu and Haacke can be found as influences in my work at l'Atelier, for example in the experimental improvisation Correspondances (directly related to sociology).
Much later, in 2007, I founded the Pierre Bourdieu network , a tribute to the virtual world of Second Life.
I keep coming back to Mallarmé's research, his “total theater” (1876-1877) and Le Livre (1885-1898), which helps me think ...
(read Pascal Durand, Mallarmé. Du sens des formes au sens des formalités, Seuil, coll. “Liber”, 2008)
It was while reading Anna Boschetti 's great book (La poésie partout. Apollinaire, homme-époque (1898-1918), Seuil, coll. Liber, 2001) that made me want to return to Apollinaire and delve deeper into the links between poetry and the other arts (e.g. Correspondance avec les artistes. 1903-1918. Ed. by L. Campa and P. Read. Gallimard, 2009)
Michel Décaudin has written a very useful Apollinaire (Livre de Poche, coll. “Réfèrence”, 2002).
Le flâneur des deux rives is one of my readings for my project on the city Gilbert Quélennec, music for the Villes project
