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There seems no doubt that American minimalist music had flourished in the aftermath of loops and sonic reinjections of Pierre Schaeffer's French studio where he invented ‘musique concrete’ in 1948, composing his famous 'Études de bruits'.
It is from one of them, Étude pathétique, that Denis Dufour renews his experience of a transcription of a singular sound world. In Spot, offering a careful and accurate translation, not in letter but in spirit, he transposes the ineffable of ingenuity, of the nonchalant instant, of the movement captured in the ‘closed groove’.

• Premiered on 11 April 2014 at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), during the ‘Palais de Glass’ event by Nicolas Horvath
• Dedicated to Nicolas Horvath

With his morphological and expressive approach to sound, Denis Dufour works on pieces in a state of constant renewal, on ideas that are specific to each piece. The resultant work is like a large fresco in which no themes sound alike, one goes through varied and breathtaking soundscapes, appreciating the sheer imagination though the consistency of his style. By deliberately but effortlessly having his music open to all sounds, Denis Dufour’s approach is that of liberty, independence and diligence. His craftsmanship, very French, is exquisite and mastered; every second of sound is enveloped by a supra-conscious ear, so that his work contains no trace of automatic tools.

Find his complete works at Maison ONA —nearly 200 instrumental, vocal, mixed music and electroacoustic works released successively.