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Pierre Bastien (France, 1953), a long-time member of Pascal Comelade's
Bel Canto Orquesta, who appears on
Bel Canto Orchestra (Ding Dong, 1984),
Detail Monochrome (DSA, 1984),
Bel Canto (1986),
El Primitivismo (DSA, 1987),
33 Bars (Wave, 1990),
Danses et Chants de Syldavie (1993),
Traffic d'Abstraction (1993),
and Un Samedi sur la Terre (1996),
and who had already released two collaborations with Bernard Pruvost under the moniker Nu Creative Methods, Nu Jungle Dances (Dav05, 1978) and Le Marchand de Calicot (Dav05, 1981),
and composed music for dance pieces and for string
quartet, became famous when (1986) he built his first mechanical orchestra,
"Mecanium", an ensemble of musical automata capable of playing traditional instruments.
Mecanium (ADN, 1988), Musiques Machinales (SMI, 1993),
Eggs Air Sister Steel (InPolysons, 1995)
and Mecanoid (Rephlex, 2001) document these robotic experiments.
Musiques Paralloidres (Lowlands, 1998) added a sampler to the arsenal.
Oblique Sessions (1997) is a collaboration with Comelade, Berrocal & Liebezeit.
Mecanologie Portative (1999) is a collaboration with the duo Klimperei.
Musique Cyrillique (SoLyd, 2001) is a collaboration with Alexei Aigui.
Mots d'Heures (InPolysons, 2002) is a collaboration with Lukas Simonis.
Pop (Rephlex, 2005) is his most varied and ebullient set of
mechanical symphonies yet. The common factor is a hypnotic rhythm that comes
from the fact that these are players fueled by motors.
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