Maxime de la Rochefoucauld
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Maxime De La Rochefoucauld is the stage name of Montreal-based musician and performance artist Maxime Rioux.
Rioux (October 29, 1959) is best known for his compositions produced on musical instruments that are homemade and often built specifically for a single live performance. Most instruments (usually string or percussion) of his Système Ki, as Rioux calls it, are not played directly by a musician. Instead they are mechanically linked to a woofer that is driven by an inaudible, extremely low frequency electrical signal. The signal, in the range of 1-10 Hz, is most often generated on a synthesizer and prerecorded, but may be played live or be generated from other electrical sources.
The name “Ki” refers to the Japanese translation of Qi, the notion of a vital energy that animates all things.
Rioux is the brother of French-Canadian stage and film actress Geneviève Rioux.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Automates Ki, Plastique Records, 1997 [1]
- Collection Somnambule, Disques Pout Pout, 2002 [2]
- Orchestraki, Storyboard Records, 2006 [3]
[edit] References
- Citations
- ^ "Browse by Label: PLASTIQUE RECORDS". Forcedexposure.com. http://www.forcedexposure.com/Labels/plastique.records.html. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
- ^ "Maxime de la Rochefoucauld: Collection somnambule ›› Description — actuellecd.com — La boutique des nouvelles musiques". Actuellecd.com. 2004-09-01. http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/cat/mx_02/. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
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[edit] External links
- Music for Solo Performer (performance art video illustrating brain waves as a source for Système Ki signals)
- Automates Ki in Senegal (live performance)
- Article in British music magazine The Wire
- References to several online articles about Maxime De La Rochefoucald
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