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published in Libération the 22/06/2002
"A delirium of electric household appliances settles on
Sunday under the windows of the BNF(...) Over twenty(*) washing
machines, peeled will be installed on the four corners of the
quay. Managed by computer and controlled by Jacques Rémus,
this ensemble of sound sculptures will offer an orchestral and
bruitist concert ".
* There was in fact thirty two
Tausend Augen December 2001-February 2002 "Enchanted hand " by Sebastien Hoët "
" (...) a merry-go-round (named Leon, andowner of the company
A Chahuter) turns at variable speed, starting percussions laid
out on its circumference, while the musicians, of whom Jacques
Rémus, run, dance, move around " vociferate "
in microphones, inside the merry go round, or, sound a chime
while playing with their hands under the invisible beam of a
camera. Notes - of such purity that reminds one of the wind harp-fly
away slow, fast, alone or by sets, consonnantes or dissonantes,
on of an often tribal, bloody percussion background which makes
one feel like embodying a frenzied dance. We regain our past
youthfulness of body, breath and crying out loud, in the vertiginous
magic of the merry-go-round which does not cease to turn and
loose control at times. A total show which would call upon the
insane spectrum of Artaud - its will to use all the components
of show-dancing on rhythmic frenzy but ô how calculated,
by Steve Coleman."
Le Journal du Dimanche24/09/95 Emmanuelle Chantepie "the musical camera "(...)
"He places himself in front of his last project: "the
musical camera". He kneads the notes with his fingers, unrolls
arpegio with his arm and as by magic, each one of his moves becomes
music".
Revue et Corrigée , sept 93
"It is because REMUS has a need for other sounds that cannot
be satisfied with the standard instruments, because he has specific
ideas of shows that he needs to develop objects which are his
own with lively settings and interventions on the machines which
are not exclusively automatic. Because REMUS could have this
vast project - teaching? to lead us by the ear and eye and to
carry us towards the sources of the sound, rignt into the sound."
France Soir June 91
" machines that restore the emotion, the beauty, but also
the sclumsiness of the genuine musical instruments "
Jazz
magazine 1983 Bombyx
" Bombyx can give you the need to for play the blues, the
free, or to deliver yourself to a wise quasi-mathematics fight
to precede, counter, thwart this mysterious, feeric machine.
Each musician, whatever his style or his feeling of the moment,
must be able to work out an original music with this (in the
singular for the moment) infernal tower ".