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Claire Bergerault

Jean-Sébastien — 2022-04-25T15:56:48Z

Accordion, voice

Singer, accordionist and conductor, Claire Bergerault takes part in numerous projects in the fields of improvised, experimental and contemporary music. She is part of the UN ensemble, founded by David Chiesa. During her various projects, she notably met Pascale Criton, François Rossé and Simon Steen-Andersen. She produces performances combining the visual arts (Alexandre Burton, Christophe Macé, Patrick Dekeyser), dance (Alea Citta company) or sound poetry (Édith Azam). Claire Bergerault founded in 2010 Le Lobe, an orchestra made up of 22 improvising musicians, and in 2011 the company Hors Laps. In 2016, she was an actress-singer for the theater in Œdipe à Colone directed by Jean-Christophe Blondel. His discography includes more than ten records released under the Orkesme, Nocturne and Cathnor labels.

View online : Hors Laps

Benjamin Duboc

Jean-Sébastien — 2022-01-03T09:02:09Z

Contrebasse

Benjamin Duboc, double bass - improviser and composer of electroacoustic music, multiplying the contexts of play (music, dance, theater, image), with a pronounced taste for literature and particularly poetry, works around notions of the present, of air, limit, fluidity and dilution, complexity and simplicity, developing a game of remarkable expressive, telluric intensity. "Music as sharing the air. To play music is to play to listen." He considers the form, in improvisation, as a result of the relationships brought into play, a form in perpetual birth, through work around the state of presence and Act-ualisation. But also, form, in writing, prior to the relationship. No aestheticism then, no marked route to follow, but open to the expanse, above all.

He began his family jazz on his own, before working with Jean-François Jenny-Clarke and Bernard Cazauran, and thinking of the instrument, like our own voice, as an extension of the body, a simple resonator, amplifier of our interiority. , privacy. A virtuoso approach therefore, in the etymological sense of the term, as well as his obsessive attention to autonomous otherness, his pleasure of the game being in this positioning, have made him one of the living forces of the experimental scene today as well. that a partner of choice for many musicians in Europe and beyond.

View online : Benjamin Duboc's website

Catherine Jauniaux

Jean-Sébastien — 2021-12-31T11:35:01Z

Voice, objects

Starting out as an actress at the age of 16, Catherine Jauniaux has participated in numerous theatrical and film productions in Belgium and France (Topor, Ledoux, Kayat, Berckmans). She is often described as “the woman-orchestra” or “the human sampler”, she has collaborated with an impressive list of outstanding figures from the improvised scene, cinema, avant-garde rock and dance, including Marc. Ribot, Tom Cora, Ikue Mori, ErikM, Fred Frith, Heiner Goebbels, Zeena Parkins, Louis Sclavis, Barre Phillips, Sophie Agnel, Ned Rothenberg, Ken Jacobs, François Verret, David Moss, Aksak Maboul etc ...

His always fascinating performances combine gravity and humor, sound explorations and emotions, abstractions and melodies

View online : Biography

Frédérick Galiay

Jean-Sébastien — 2021-12-31T11:33:02Z

Electric bass

Self-taught, Frederick Galiay improvises, writes and conducts a wide range of instrumental ensembles. An electro-acoustic composer, he is also a visual artist. On the electric bass, his playing modes are the result of extensive research into expanding the acoustic and timbral possibilities as well as the traditional scope of the instrument. His instrumental writing is unclassifiable and reflects the freedom with which he approaches creation. He regularly collaborates with the composers Kasper T. Toeplitz and Christian Zanési and has been setting up various projects for twenty years with musicians such as Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Edward Perraud and Jacques Di Donato. Frederick Galiay is defined by the poetry he writes, like the painting of Soulages, he knows how to melt and illuminate the darkest universes.

View online : Frédérick Galiay's website

Yuko Oshima

Jean-Sébastien — 2021-12-31T11:27:40Z

Drums

Japanese drummer and composer. Lives in France since 2000. Yuko develops his musical language in drums through improvisation and composition with musicians, dancers, and actors. As a drummer, Yuko focuses on finding sounds with his instrument and metal accessories while keeping his passion for rhythm and groove. As an artist, Yuko enjoys creativity and humanity.

In 2015, Yuko formed the duo ‘bishinkodo' with Eric BROITMANN (Motus) in acousmonium (speaker orchestra) to realize his idea of creating drum music for drums and electronics; true mixture of acoustic and electronic sounds forming a vast soundscape. This project shows her affection towards the search for new sounds and a new musical approach that she has kept since the beginning of her musical life having crossed rock, jazz, contemporary and pop music.

In 2018, she asked Samuel Colard (piano) and Vincent Robert (modular synth, from the “summer camp”) to create an improvisation trio “Hiyoméki” in order to realize and concretize the music she had imagined; focus on the group's singular sound work with vast influences from rock, jazz, pop and contemporary and also on instant composition work in improvisation to create a unique musical journey in depth.

She is a founder of the duo 'DONKEY MONKEY' with Eve RISSER (piano), of the drum duo with Hamid DRAKE, of the trio with Isabelle DUTHOIT (voice, clarinet) and Soizic LEBRAT (cello), of another trio 'LAUROSHILAU' with 2 Brussels girls Pak Yan LAU (piano, electronics) and Audrey LAURO (alto saxophone), and also groups from Japan, notably from the trio 'GAKUSEI JIKKEN SHITSU' with Ryoko ONO (saxophone) and Hiroki ONO (electronics) who released their album in July 2017 under the French label Bam Balam Records. In addition, she regularly collaborates with dancers, notably "SOURDRE" with Damien BRIANÇON (from "the collective species"). She also plays in a play SCÉNES DE VIOLENCES CONJUGALES 'directed by Gérard WATKINS since 2016 as a musician and actress.

View online : Yuko Oshima's website

Xavier Charles

Jean-Sébastien — 2021-12-30T19:12:08Z

Clarinette

Clarinetist, he mainly practices improvisation, and multiplies collaborations with many musicians in France and abroad. He has developed techniques on the instrument inspired by matter, the sounds of everyday life, of living things. and contemporary musical languages. His sound research also directed him to a system of vibrating speakers. His experiences take him to the frontiers of improvised music, noisy rock, electroacoustics, jazz, traditional music. His improvisational work involves the question of listening and how to reinvent it.

View online : Site de Xavier Charles

Jean-Sébastien Mariage

Jean-Sébastien — 2021-12-30T15:43:25Z

Electric and acoustic guitars

Guitarist improviser and composer since 1990, Jean-Sébastien Mariage develops new techniques and materials which make his instrument evolve, transcend it, open it up to unexpected sounds, to unsuspected music. He performs solo and in numerous free improvisation groups on the international scene (Hubbub, ONCEIM, etc.). He is also a performer of contemporary composers (Elianne Radigue, Rhys Chatham, Eric Abecassis, Frederick Galiay…). He works regularly with dance, poetry, theater… (Carole Armitage, Michel Gendarme, company Hop-là Nous Vivons…). Recently, he has directed his research towards the idea of "commonplace", including in his music referenced objects (patterns, sounds) that he proposes as so many pivots which subliminally arouse the common memory in order to dig new articulations. sound. Giving particular importance to transmission, he has been a regular speaker since 2015 at the Philharmonie de Paris for various workshops.

View online : Jean-Sébastien Mariage's website