Michel Delville (born 1969) is a Belgian musician, writer and critic. Delville teaches literature at the University of Liège.[1] He is the author of books about comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies.[2] He was awarded the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation,[3] the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold[4] I (2009), and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances.[5]
In 2009 he created the trio douBt with Alex Maguire and Tony Bianco. Their debut album, Never Pet a Burning Dog, included ex-Camel, Caravan and Hatfield and the North member Richard Sinclair on guest vocals and bass.[6] In 2010 he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando,[7] a tribute to the music of Robert Wyatt whose line-up includes Dagmar Krause, Richard Sinclair, Annie Whitehead, Gilad Atzmon, Alex Maguire, Chris Cutler, John Edwards, and Cristiano Calcagnile. In 2011 the band toured Europe and Canada as a sextet in 2011.[8] In 2012, Delville collaborated with the international collective 48 Cameras and Robin Rimbaud.[9] In 2018 he was voted one of the 3 best electric guitarists of the year by Arnaldo DeSouteiro's Annual Jazz Station Poll.[10]
Selected bibliographyedit
As author
Le roman de la faim: du Hungerkünstler au schizoflâneur (Rome/Macerata: Quodlibet, 2021)
Tutto quello che non-avreste mai voluto leggere—o rileggere—sul fotoromanzo. Una passeggiata (w. Luciano Curreri and Giuseppe Palumbo; Bologna: Comma22, 2021)
Jim Hendrix: Are Your Experienced (Paris/Rouen: Editions Densité, 2019)
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust (w. Andrew Norris; New York/London: Routledge, 2017)
Undoing Art (w. Mary Ann Caws; Roma/Macerata: Quodlibet, 2017)
Ali e t o lo ss (w. Elisabeth Waltregny; Stockholm: Trolltrumma, 2017)
Anything & Everything (trans. Gian Lombardo; Niantic, CT: Quale Press, 2016)
Radiohead: OK Computer (Paris/Rouen: Editions Densité, 2015)
Crossroads Poetics: Text, Image, Music, Film & Beyond (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia/Charles University Prague, 2013)
Entre la poire et le fromage (Lyon/Marseille: Editions Kirographaires, 2013)
Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History (w. Sascha Bru and Ben de Bruyn; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
Il grande incubo che mi son scelto: prove di avvicinamento a Profondo Rosso (w. Luciano Curreri; Piombino: Edizioni Il Foglio, 2015)
Le thriller métaphysique (w. Antoine Dechêne; Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2015)
Marc Atkins (Liège: Collections artistiques de l'Université de Liège, 2015)
Le dégoût: Histoire, politique et esthétique d'une émotion plurielle (w. Andrew Norris and Viktoria von Hoffmann; Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2015)
Boucle et répétition: musique, littérature, arts visuels (w. Livio Belloï, Christophe Levaux and Christophe Pirenne; Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2014)
L’œuvre en morceaux : Esthétiques de la mosaïque (w. Livio Belloï; Paris : Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006)
Le Rossignol instrumental : Poésie, musique, modernité. (w. Jean-Pierre Bertrand and Christine Pagnoulle; Leuven, Paris, Dudley, MA : Peeters/Vrin, 2004)
Sound as Sense: US Poetry &/In Music (w. Christine Pagnoulle; Brussels, Bern, Frankfurt, New York : Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes-Peter Lang, 2003)
Postwar American Poetry: The Mechanics of the Mirage (w. Christine Pagnoulle; Liège: L3, 2000)
Selected discographyedit
The Wrong Object, The Wrong Object feat. Ed Mann – Zappanale 2004 (Maximalist Records, promo CD, 2004)
^"Michel Delville". Cipa.ulg.ac.be. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^Équipe de recherche Fabula. "M. Delville, Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption. Eating the Avant-Garde". Fabula.org. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^"BAEF 2001 Alumni Award". Baef.be. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^"Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold". Staatsbladclip.be. 26 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^"CAS Academics specialized in American subject matter". Kbr.be. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^John McGuire, Digital HD Productions, for Leonardo Pavkovic, and MoonJune.com. "douBt". Moonjune.com. Retrieved 7 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Comicoperando". Exb.it. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^"Comicoperando Live in Amsterdam". YouTube. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^"48 Cameras". 48cameras.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^"40th Annual Jazz Station Awards". 31 December 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2019.