ACCENTED MEASURES SERIES
INDEPENDENT LABEL ARCHIVE / VINYL / DIGITAL / DIRECT MATERIAL
HARDWARE-DRIVEN MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
EST. 2020
AMSD / AMSV
AMS NETWORK
AMSD / AMSV
AMS NETWORK
South of France / Berlin
A wider conversation about influences, process, limitation and what comes next.
AI001 opens the interview side of AMS Network through Pierre Marty: a conversation moving through formative club experiences, discipline, limitation, hardware, online culture and the slower process of building a personal artistic language.
“My earliest memories go back to the end of high school. I was already playing music (guitar and bass), mostly in rock and punk-rock bands. My friend Vincent, a drummer, had...”
“When I was around fifteen to seventeen, my guitar teacher Alex was extremely demanding. Instead of simply teaching me songs, he had me learn the basics of jazz improvisation which...”
“Completely. the process is constantly evolving. With time I developed more discipline, and learned not to depend on the perfect mood or a sudden flash of inspiration to start...”
“Hardware has always been at the center of the process for me, with the digital side there as support. I think it comes from my background as an instrumentalist because I need...”
“I don’t think I could create anything without limitations, whether they are physical or self-imposed. My best tracks often came from very concrete ones: the eight-track structure...”
“The further I go, the more I compartmentalize. My sampling sessions are separate from my sound-design sessions, which are separate again from composing or arranging. These days I...”
“When I am really focused on a project (preparing a live set, finishing an EP, starting a new track…) I want to be sure that nothing in the day can break the creative flow. So I...”
“Staying grounded. Keeping good relationships with the people around me; my family, my girlfriend Yana, my cat, my friends. I am quite sensitive, and the moment one part of my life...”
“I see a paradox. On one hand, we have never been so connected, and never had so many tools to express ourselves. On the other, the sad part is that the music itself often does not...”
“I am grateful for every club and festival I have had the chance to play, but my favorite live experiences have always been at Le Chant des Oiseaux, the festival run by Atipik....”
“People probably wouldn’t expect how much structure sits behind the scenes. From the outside, electronic music can look purely spontaneous, and a big part of it really is built on...”
“If we stay strictly within electronic music: ADMO is already my musical partner in our project Alpyren, but he is too important not to mention. Beyond that, DJ Immortal aka Paul...”
“Unrest by Rei Harakami. I never stop returning to...”
“I have learned that everything worth seeing, hearing or living takes patience and time. I am not afraid anymore of taking all the time a project needs, even if it means being...”
“For the first time in my life as an artist, I have finished a lot of different projects, and now I am just impatiently waiting for them to come out, whatever the reaction may be....”
“I think Lunch Break in Mitte connected with audience because it was groove-focused, colourful and easy to listen to, but still a bit abstract and slightly melancholic...”