Jacques Demierre

 
Jacques Demierre (born 1954 in Geneva) is a pianist, composer and improviser, author of solo and group concerts and sound performances, radio plays, collaborative performances and site-specific installations. He has collaborated with artists (Chris Mann, Caroline Bergvall, Christian Kesten), choreographers (Cindy van Acker, Noemi Lapzeson) and numerous musicians (Axel Dörner, Jonas Kocher, Fritz Hauser, Sainkho Namtchylak, Irène Schweizer, John Butcher, Brandon LaBelle, Jason Kahn, Butch Morris, Roger Turner, Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans, Carlos Zingaro, Gunter Müller, Jaap Blonk, Barry Guy, Sylvie Courvoisier, Han Bennink…).
 
Jacques Demierre - BarDem - Bar & Dem & (5 CD box set)
2025
various
forthcoming
A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.
Jacques Demierre - Engamblant
2021
French edition
various
This edition, printed in serigraphy, delivers the reworked transcription of a recorded interview between musicians Jacques Demierre and Louis Schild, in which the notion of surveying and measurement is examined, among other things and in a conversational manner (with a musical transcription and a contribution from the playwright Michèle Pralong).
Jacques Demierre - ABC-Book (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
(last copies available!)
An ABC book with which the pianist, composer and improviser recounts his experience of sound (with the score and recording on CD of an unpublished piece).
Jacques Demierre - Listening - Carnet de route LDP 2015
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Lenka lente
sold out
In 2015, musicians Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips gave a series of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic with their band LDP as part of the “Listening” Tour. Listening is their tour's logbook and gathers memories, anecdotes, thoughts and pictures.


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