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Pierre Favre
(September 2005 Issue)
Their Own Little Orchestra Swiss drummers Pierre
Favre and Fredy Studer brought their duo, Drum
Orchestra, to the States
for a rare four-date tour this past November (including a stop at the
Percussive Arts Society
International Convention in Dallas). While
Fredy is a frequent visitor to this side of the Atlantic, it's been
fifteen years
since Pierre was last here.
In the duo, Pierre writes most of the music, though Fredy has
contributed one piece.
"It's a lot of unison playing," Pierre says.
"But whereas a singer and pianist have different voices, that's
difficult to
achieve on drums. So we work to play the unison parts and
find the space to allow us to improvise more. We have to listen so
the
theme stays with us when we improvise. This creates a stream in the
music, especially with the
phrases'there's a tension and dynamic."
"We learn the parts by ourselves," Fredy offers, "and then
play
together, which is so different. You have to listen to how the
other guy plays and listen to yourself. We play as physically
close
together as possible. We did a concert in Switzerland last fall where
the stage was large. We set up one meter apart,
and it was too much!
We're always watching and feeling each other."
Michael Bettine
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