Erwan Keravec is a French, Brest-based experimental bagpipe player and composer, known for his arrangements of Terry Riley’s iconic In C and Philip Glass’ early works for an ensemble of (amplified) bagpipe players, as well as his Luft duo with sax player Mats Gustafsson, his duo with drummer Hamid Drake, and his White Sands trio with guitarist Julien Desprez and percussionist Will Guthrie.
There will be no miracles here borrows its title from British artist Nathan Coley’s installation presented at the Sound Festival in Aberdeen in 2016, consisting of a neon sign with a single sentence, with no artifice. Keravec’s 48-minute work (2019) avoids sonic miracles, and there is nothing miraculous or spectacular in it. It is comprised of seven amplified bagpipe players, arranged in
