{"id":43203,"date":"2015-12-06T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seekvilcabamba.com\/press\/?p=43203"},"modified":"2015-12-06T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T17:28:07","slug":"pierre-volter-belgian-songwriter-living-in-loja-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbxmusic.com\/press\/2015\/12\/06\/pierre-volter-belgian-songwriter-living-in-loja-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Volter – Belgian songwriter living in Loja Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am a composer before I am a musician. \u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cI often compare music with painting.\u00a0 Nobody asks a painter to paint live.\u00a0 A painter takes all the time in the world to produce his masterpiece for the world to admire.\u00a0 Many musicians claim that there is no real music outside of live music. I find that intolerant.\u00a0 In the studio, I create music like a painter creates his painting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierre was born in Brussels, Belgium, he studied at the \u201cUniversite Libre de Bruxelles\u201d to become a chemical engineer.\u00a0 After working in the field of engineering for a number of years, he went back to study for a doctorate in Biomedical Sciences which lead him to work at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Brussels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is here that I bumped into my first computer\u2026. I loved it.\u00a0 It was clean, dry and did not stink like chemistry\u201d.<\/p>\n

This in turn lead to Pierre forming his own company, called BBX Ltd, which to this day provides software development services to a number of international companies.<\/p>\n

Pierre\u2019s love for music started when he was only a lad.
\n\u201cI started music at a very early age.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t even born that I was tapping my little embryonic foot on my mum\u2019s bladder\u201d.\u00a0 Well maybe he wasn\u2019t that young when he started learning to play the piano.<\/p>\n

Studying classical piano at the Brussels School of Music and then with a private teacher.\u00a0 Lots of scales and, of course, the mandatory inescapable Bach fugue to practice over and over.\u00a0 \u201cThe fugue is tricky. Neither hand knows what the other is doing\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was good for the learning process of developing the independence of the hands, but it wasn\u2019t his future, too classical.
\n\u201cI wanted to play my own compositions but the teacher was not interested. There was the program and the program was the program.\u00a0 Composing was probably perceived as arrogance\u201d. <\/em>
\nThese pieces are now part of the Nouveau Piano album and among the most liked.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2026. It makes for a breezy and refreshing style from the urgency of Full Steam to the resonant Boom, Boom Piano, to the sheer, floating beauty of Born in Aquarius.\u2019
\nStewart Hunt, Nelson Mail, October 2002<\/p>\n

Through his teenage years Pierre studied guitar, voice and saxophone.<\/p>\n

For the guitar, his method was simple: get a record from say, Bob Dylan, or Simon and Garfunkel and try to do exactly what they do, without cheating.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not need a teacher for that, just a good pair of ears and lots of practice\u201d<\/em>.
\nFriends also helped him a lot by showing him tips and techniques.\u00a0 One breakthrough in Pierre\u2019s guitar playing was when he learnt finger picking.\u00a0 It opened new vast territories.<\/p>\n

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