Using a rudimentary electroacoustic device built around a repaired turntable,a prepared-mixer and other primitive
equipement that need manipulation - to make it brief -, Arnaud Rivière practises free improvisation, playing solo, in groups and through collaborations, since the late 90s.
Traffic in the DIY area : metal pieces, wires and stuff stuck into the mixing board. Put the "out" in the "in".
It is not at all made for this, but why not.
A pick up, rather a plastic one, an explosion is required, but re-enforced to resist.
It has to take it.  Not necessarly using records on the turntable, sometimes even metal disks or other materials.
Also contact-mics, they go where they fall, or don't fall, often through and via metal springs.
Well, otherwise and unshamedly, (but with both hands), Arnaud Rivière is making his own music with curves and accidents.
PRESENTATION BY TAKURO MIZUTA LIPPIT
(Steim curator / Amsterdam-NL)
Arnaud's performance is far from subtle. He will attack you
with raw sounds of objects rotating on the turntable and
dangerous wires stuck directly into his mixer. His sonic
intervention is ecstatic but he is also detached enough to
hint at sarcasm moments before he moves on to destroy
another objects for auditory pleasure. For me, Arnaud is
an important turntablist that extends the practices of
Yoshihide Otomo and Martin Tetreault, where the raw
sound of the material overwhelms any sort of reference
or functionality that the medium was originally intended to
have.
 
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