In the middle of the dark room stood a giant structure of wood and moving wires, between which a small, barefoot man moved. What seems an incomprehensible jumble to the viewer makes sense to Pierre Gordeeff, on dashboard controls that trigger sound elements, springs and belts, gurgling fountains, hissing light bulbs… A looping musical factory that finally turns on by itself after many adjustments and has a power so enchanting that we don’t even realize that the man has disappeared, until we hear it explode. with shrill laughter behind us: It’s burning! Hilariously, he rushes towards the smoking belt to strip elements from its vast master structure, fiddles with a few wires, tramples sparks on the ground, then slowly begins, layer by layer, the metamorphosis of the machine towards the next set of music.
This passionate DIY genius who studied fine arts in Nantes lives and works in a hamlet in Ille-et-Vilaine where sound architecture takes shape in the images of his tortured brain. If you have to see, feel and hear the machine working in real time to understand the scale of his work (we had this opportunity in September), Pierre Gordeeff has for the first time recorded a work that will be released in December on record with La Belle Brute, a structure dedicated to outsider music.
