Bérangère Maximin’s music engages the listener in considerations of space and textures. Working out of her personal studio in Paris, she has gradually developed a hyperpersonal style, creating sensual, hypnotic, sultry pieces with immediate impact. The electroacoustic composer's repertoire is marked by encounters that have inspired her writing in various degrees. She studied under the musique concrète composer Denis Dufour (a member of the famous GRM and a pupil of Pierre Schaeffer) and then came to the attention of John Zorn who released her debut album, Tant Que Les Heures Passent on Tzadik (2008). Taking inspiration from the New York improv scene and her European tour in solo and in duo with the likes of Fred Frith, Fennesz or Rhys Chatham, her work then developed towards live practice, her playing with laptops and midi controllers delivering what she likes to call her digital chimeras. This work led her to compose No One Is An Island (Sub Rosa, 2012), the second and only collaborative album so far, and the confirmation of the respect Bérangère had started to get from established artists. The minimal series Infinitesimal (Sub Rosa, 2013) describes a slow transformation, a deep introspection far removed from the convention of the genre, very special imaginary areas where only matters the physicality of the moment. Dangerous Orbits out since May 2015 is her first album for Crammed Discs' Made To Measure series.
“A menacing silvery growl runs through this record, where dysfunctional spaceships meet the memories of Solaris... a muffled dubby pulse ungrounds and untethers... Maximin's cinematic soundworks are discomforting reminders that the universe does not at all belong to us” – The WIRE, May 2015.
