C.V., contact

Pierre Berthet

(Photo : F. Le Junter)

e.mail :pierre.berthet_@_mail.be (enlever les _)

Studied percussion with André Van Belle and Georges-Elie Octors. Improvisation with Garrett List. Composition with Frederic Rzewski. Music theory with Henri Pousseur.

Designs and builds sound objects and installations (steel, plastic, water, magnetic fields,…). Presents them in exhibitions and solo or duo performances with Brigida Romano (C.D. "Continuum asorbus" on the label Sub Rosa) or Frédéric Le Junter (C.D. "Berthet Le Junter" on the label Vandœuvres).

Collaborated with "13th tribe" (C.D. "Ping pong anthropology"). Played percussion in Arnold Dreyblatt’s "Orchestra of excited strings" (C.D. "Animal magnetism", label Tzadik ; C.D. "The sound of one string", label Table of the elements).

Personnal CDs :
 "Un cadre de piano prolongé", label Sonoris
 "Two continuum pieces", label Sub Rosa
 "Extended loudspeakers", label Sub Rosa

Exhibitions (among others) :
 Galerie O.S.C.A.R. (Carsten Nicolai), Chemnitz
 Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin
 Plan K, Bruxelles
 Stichting Intro, Maastricht
 Festival des sons secoués, Strasbourg
 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
 galerie Surge,Tokyo (aide du C.G.R.I.)...(2003)
 Klankenbos,Neerpelt, Belgium, permanent since 2004
 Chateau de Seneffe, Belgium 2008 Solo performances (among others) :
 Kl. Theater O.N. am Kolwitzplatz, Berlin
 Galerie A, Liège(1988)
 Roulette, New-York (1996)
 Audio Art Festival, Krakow
 Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
 ExperimentaIintermedia,New York (2007)

(Photo : Maria Blondeel)

Duets with Fr. Le Junter
 Festival Musique Action, Nancy
 Festival Densités, Verdun
 ...

Other collaborations :
 Manu Holterbach et Sophie Durand (Festival Why Not 2004, Dijon)
 Pierre Bastien (Centre Pompidou, festival Octopus 2005)
 Frances-Marie Uitti (Festival Happy new ears 2006)
 Xavier Charles (Festival Musiques de rues 2006, Besançon)

(Photo : F. Le Junter)

Other documentation available : book : "les chercheurs de sons by Gerard Nicollet.He also has an interesting blog

book :pocket Klankenbos catalogue edited by "Musica",Neerpelt 2008.(info@musica.be)