Saturday 01 March 19h-22h
Gabriel Valtchev, Nicolas Collins & John Menoud, DQTÇ (Duktus)
Réalités allitérées
Concert
three acts
Reality is a trap that takes no one by surprise (Clément Rosset), and yet we are surprised to fall into it again and again .
In the field of altering reality, sound plays a special role. What we hear manifests a presence in itself, strangely familiar, that exists without necessarily owing anything to an understanding of what provokes it. The state of abandonment to which it gives us access, once accepted, allows us to live through an overwhelming experience, of the order of the distortion of space and time.
Each of the three projects presented here takes a different approach to the musical side-step towards its acoustic fringes. Alliteration, a process of partial resumption and deformation, asserts an aestheticisation of repetition through displacement. It evokes trance and free music in a way that is imperfect, drunken and chaotic.
Gabriel Valtchev / drums, electronics, objects, voice
Gabriel Valtchev plays in almost ten different ensembles, exploring a variety of genres from traditional Balkan music to contemporary improvised music, jazz, noise, drone and ambient. As a staggering, dazed soloist under the name UBLO, he arms himself with his drums, a few percussion elements and a minimal synth to deliver dense worlds where the narrative is eaten up by the en decà, from satellite parasites to compressor fury.
Nicolas Collins / !trumpet + John Menoud / saxophone
Nicolas Collins and John Menoud share a passion for detours. The work of these two musicians sees composition and performance as a way of opening up to a wild music that gives pride of place to rubbish and ruins. The trumpet played by the American artist is a composite instrument whose electronic prostheses cause the sound of the instrument to drift towards random productions. Here it meets John Menoud's saxophone, revisited in an extended palette of sounds, a hybrid in its own way.
DQTÇ (Duktus) / vocals, electronica, synthesiser, drums
Throwing themselves headlong into the chaos of electronic rhythms and accidents, DQTÇ create motifs whose stubborn repetition produces a moving framework. Intense and sunny, the trio formed by Lionel Friedli, Antoine Läng and Vincent Membrez shape an organic and asymmetrical material, unpredictable and fractured, that intrudes into the interstices of sound and its multiple shards.
In the field of altering reality, sound plays a special role. What we hear manifests a presence in itself, strangely familiar, that exists without necessarily owing anything to an understanding of what provokes it. The state of abandonment to which it gives us access, once accepted, allows us to live through an overwhelming experience, of the order of the distortion of space and time.
Each of the three projects presented here takes a different approach to the musical side-step towards its acoustic fringes. Alliteration, a process of partial resumption and deformation, asserts an aestheticisation of repetition through displacement. It evokes trance and free music in a way that is imperfect, drunken and chaotic.
Gabriel Valtchev / drums, electronics, objects, voice
Gabriel Valtchev plays in almost ten different ensembles, exploring a variety of genres from traditional Balkan music to contemporary improvised music, jazz, noise, drone and ambient. As a staggering, dazed soloist under the name UBLO, he arms himself with his drums, a few percussion elements and a minimal synth to deliver dense worlds where the narrative is eaten up by the en decà, from satellite parasites to compressor fury.
Nicolas Collins / !trumpet + John Menoud / saxophone
Nicolas Collins and John Menoud share a passion for detours. The work of these two musicians sees composition and performance as a way of opening up to a wild music that gives pride of place to rubbish and ruins. The trumpet played by the American artist is a composite instrument whose electronic prostheses cause the sound of the instrument to drift towards random productions. Here it meets John Menoud's saxophone, revisited in an extended palette of sounds, a hybrid in its own way.
DQTÇ (Duktus) / vocals, electronica, synthesiser, drums
Throwing themselves headlong into the chaos of electronic rhythms and accidents, DQTÇ create motifs whose stubborn repetition produces a moving framework. Intense and sunny, the trio formed by Lionel Friedli, Antoine Läng and Vincent Membrez shape an organic and asymmetrical material, unpredictable and fractured, that intrudes into the interstices of sound and its multiple shards.