Jean-Luc Guionnet & Jean-Philippe Gross / Louis Laurain / Vicky Sparrow

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Jean-Luc Guionnet
"My musical work subdivides itself into as many ways as occasions arise for me to think and act with sound and forms. Those occasions have always to do with a strong meeting with an outside element : an instrument (saxophone/organ), a theoretical idea (what is "rumour"?), and mainly a collaborating friend (Lotus Edde Khouri, Éric La Casa, Thomas Bonvalet, Seijiro Murayama) ... or the long term adventure of a team (Hubbub, Ames Room, Jupiter Terminus ...). There then follows a collection of themes which, in turn, influence the evolution of the musical work and define the direction of meetings to come: the thickness of the air, the pidgin, the musical instrument considered as affective automaton, sound as a signature of space, signature of objects, signature of what it is not... The coming emotion is made out of all these strata and the sliding of one over the other during the act of listening. When music is giving time."

Jean-Philippe Gross
At the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music, Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena. In concert, he collaborates with Stéphane Garin, Marc Baron, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Clare Cooper (Nevers)… He works with the choreographer Camille Mutel.
Never locked into any systematism, Jean-Philippe Gross allows himself the extremes to take advantage of a wide field of possibilities and pays particular attention to the timbre, the grain and the quality of the sound, even rough.
Recent works include “Structure incidences” (2022), “Ailsa Craig” (2025) commissioned by Ina/GRM (Radio France) and “Effet d’empreinte” (2023) commissionned the Musica festival and Onceim orchestra.
In 2019, he started the record label Eich.
https://tanzprocesz.bandcamp.com/album/angle

Louis Laurain
Cornet solo that combines repetitive rhythm, DIY mutes, small percussion and bird calls stuck into the pipes. I started working on this new set during the first months of the pandemic, mostly outdoors because I couldn't work at home. The idea caught on and I made a first live version in August 2020, in forest. Since then I've been playing this set in all types of places : bars, nature, parties, large resonant spaces, people's homes, and hip places of the experimental music scene such as Café Oto, Sonic Protest, Echos, Instants Chavirés...
"There are no animations to accompany Louis Laurain's solo but the extended technique lends itself to imagined visual equivalent in its synchronicity with the noise of everyday life. At some point the battlefield gameshow come to mind. With cartoon explosions as the cornet enters his death throes "
Deborah Nash, The Wire.
http://www.louis-laurain.com

Vicky Sparrow
Vicky Sparrow makes poemy performance pieces that play with looping textures, echoey tensions and uneasy repetitions, producing a liveness that ambivalently unsettles itself between poetry, sound performance and experimental music, in the service of a re-sounded horizon. She works across poetry, sound, performance and criticism, and teaches in Nottingham.