Swiss violinist and composer known for solo violin improvisations and recordings on ECM; notable for the album 'Chartres', recorded in Chartres Cathedral.

Chartres was recorded in Chartres Cathedral on the summer solstice of 1988 and released on ECM; reviews note Giger's improvisatory technique, use of overtones and percussive effects on the instrument and the album's high sound quality.

The available review praises Paul Giger's Chartres — a solo, improvised violin recording captured in Chartres Cathedral on the summer solstice 1988 and released on ECM. The review emphasizes the cathedral acoustics, Giger's technique, overtones and percussive effects on the instrument. It recommends focused listening and notes the high sound quality typical of ECM.

For:Listeners of contemporary classical and improvised music, fans of solo violin and ECM recordings, people interested in sacred-space acoustics.

 Paul Giger's improvised music is sometimes cyclical and minimalist, sometimes oriental and ancestral, rich in overtones and percussion on the body of the instrument, with trills and resonances intended to awaken hidden echoes within the stone—a beautiful and absorbed music, absolutely 'private,' if not for the fact that these sounds are marvelously captured in their purity and transferred onto the sound medium so we can listen to them in our homes, as if we were sitting in the nave and choir, hearing him play.

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