Jacques Demierre

Jacques Demierre (4 January 1954 in Geneva) is a Swiss improvisation musician and composer.[1]

Life and works

Demierre studied at the university of Geneva at the Conservatoire Populaire (piano, jazz piano, electroacoustic music) and at the Konservatorium Geneve (music theory). Soon, he gave up the classic piano and tended to the avantgarde Rock and improvised Jazz. As a pianist, he played with Dorothea Schürch, Radu Malfatti, Hans Koch and also with Martial Solal, Han Bennink, Joëlle Léandre, Carlos Zingaro and Ikue Mori. He performed regularly solo concerts and worked also in trio with Lucas Niggli and Barry Guy and also with Urs Leimgruber and Barre Phillips. Sylvie Courvoisier, Malcolm Braff and Michel Wintsch were his students.

Demierre changed his way as a composer to the border of jazz, free improvisation and contemporary music, because he was interested in mixing the improvised music tradition with notated music.

gollark: Also the fact that most stuff, even if it uses DC internally (most things probably do), runs off mains AC and has some sort of built-in/shipped-with-it power supply, and there aren't really common standards for high-powered lower-voltage DC connectors around. Except USB-C, I guess? That goes to 100W.
gollark: I guess it depends on exactly what you do, and the resistance of the wires.
gollark: Which is as far as I know more an issue of low voltages than DC itself, but DC means you can't change the voltage very easily.
gollark: There is the problem that low-voltage DC loses power more quickly over longer distances.
gollark: Yes, you're right, let's just replace our lightbulbs with idealized magic visible light emitters.

References
  1. http://brahms.ircam.fr/jacques-demierre
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