After a first residency in Prague (Czech Republic) a few weeks earlier in a school with teenagers, we organise a second residency in October in Lille (France) with seven artists that will experiment in the desacralized church Sainte Marie Madeleine in the old part of the city.
During an entire week, the 7 artists will experiment to create one or several artistic pieces that will be presented during 2 concerts at the end of the week. A show gathering all the musicians participating to this residency will also be organized.
To meet the challenges of Access, the artists will pay particular attention to the listening experience they will be offering to the audience, and will seek to exploit the different playing, movement and listening possibilities offered by the church different spaces. They will also focus on proposing a participating experience to the audience, who will be invited in one way or another to participate in the artistic creation.
Apart from this, they are given complete freedom to experiment as they wish, sharing their different experiences, approaches and inspirations to create together artistic proposals offering a more opened experience to the audience.
Thur. 10 Oct. 2024 – Concert
Sat. 12. Oct. 2024 – Concert
Sun. 13 Oct. 2024 – Concert
Discover the artistic team :
João Almeida is a Portuguese trumpet player, improviser and composer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His solo, HOCUS, is focused on creating freezing sound layers, with drastic changes of scenery. He has shared the stage with some of the most relevant musicians in the international music scene, such as Peter Evans, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Brandon Lopez. He has played in festivals such as OUT.FEST, Guimarães Jazz, Festa do Jazz, has toured extensively through Europe and is part of Robalo Association, releasing music, organizing concerts, festivals and events. […]
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Born in 1978 Beirut Lebanon, Tony Elieh is a self taught musician, composer and photographer.
He is one of the pioneers of rock and experimental music in Lebanon, founding member of the first post-rock group of post-war Lebanon, Scrambled Eggs, one of Beirut’s most prolific and talented rock bands of the early 2000’s, and remained with the group from its beginnings until its demise in 2015.
He has recorded many acclaimed albums, and composed music for several movies including an award winning movie soundtrack.
At the same time, he has started developing his own sound, expanding his approach to electric bass performance, allowing him to shift from punk rock and pop rock to improvisation, jazz and experimental music.
Nowadays a member of the improvising groups Karkhana, Calamita, and Wormholes Electric, Elieh is part of the Lebanese experimental music scene where he has collaborated with Lebanese musicians such as Sharif Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin, Charbel Haber, Tarek Atoui, Jad Atoui, Fadi Tabbal, Youmna Saba, Cynthia Zaven, Rabih Mroue, Jerusalem in My Heart a.o.
International collaborations include Tony Buck, Saadet Türköz, Roger Turner, JD Zazie, Chris Corsano, The EX, Elliott Sharp, Magda Mayas, Jean Francois Pauvros, Hassan Khan, Mike Cooper, Michael Zerang, Jean Marc Montera, Sam Shalabi, Kayyam El Lami, Julian Santorios a.o.
Elieh has performed solo and with his own projects at renowned international festivals and venues such as the Berlinale, Ruhrtriennale, Berlin Biennale, Frankfurter Buchmesse, DAAD Mikromusik Festival Berlin, Konfrontationen, Austria, Klangspuren Festival, Austria, Le Guess Who?, Cannes Film Festival, Printemps de la Danse Arabe, Paris, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Roskilde Festival a.o.
His interdisciplinary projects are numerous. He has composed and performed music for cine-concerts, as a homage to classic renowned silent movies with live improvised music.
He has also composed and performed live music for different plays and dance performances which have toured internationally.
On January 2021, Elieh received the Weltoffenes Berlin, a one year residency supported by Akademie Der Künste. […]
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Patrick Guionnet offers a unique carreer into the world of performing arts. Pure autodidact, it is both clown (for circus Joseph Bouglione (1999-2000), since 1999 in the hospital with the association “Clowns of Hope”, in improvised street wanderings with companies “Les Pas Sages of Clowns” and “Articho” in April 2009 he moved to the Philippines with “Clowns Without Borders”), singer or rather “voice player” in Lille different formations (“One DPI” or “Princes of the Universe”) and dancer, or rather “body player” for companies “Intro Visu” (Jean-Luc Caramelle), “Spiral Carolina” (Olivia Grandville) and “Hop We Live Here” (Corine Petitpierre and Yvan Clédat)…
Without proper technique but with true energy, Patrick Guionnet sees himself primarily as a performer improviser always seeking to develop and highlight the intimacy that can exist between improvisers and as far as possible, move the audience. […]
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Arnold Haberl, aka noid (b. 1970), studied cello and mathematics, and currently teaches MultiMediaArt. As a composer, sound artist and performer, his work spans cello solos, ensemble pieces, electronic music, and sound installations. His approach is fundamental research, challenging conceptions of music and performance. He collaborates with various artists across genres and performs at international festivals such as musikprotokoll Graz, tuned city Messene, and Wien Modern. He is a member of Künstlerhaus Wien and organizes the concert/performance series ‘DerBlödeDritteMittwoch’. […]
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Paulina Owczarek – saxophonist and improviser, graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow. She plays the alto and baritone sax. Interested mainly in free improvisation, she also performs contemporary chamber music, having premiered numerous new works for saxophone in Poland.
She is an active member of improvised and experimental music scene, curating and taking part in Krakow free improv projects (such as Institute Of Intuition, Muzykoterapia) and international festivals of contemporary and improvised music (Ad Libitum, Sacrum Profanum, Berlin Jazz Festival, Hurta Cordel, Musica Electronica Nova, Ostrava Days, Lublin Jazz Festival, AudioArt, Sound Exchange, Krakow Jazz Autumn, Mirror Mirror, Discordian Community Riot, No Woman No Art, Unsound, Soundance, Saalfelden Jazz Festival).
The founder and conductor of Krakow Improvisers Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to conducted improvisation. Currently she is also involved in groups such as Morświn, Cranky Ego, WOO, Quadrilateral Exchange, Human.error, Dust Mite Paradise, Figa, Open House, Ute von Bingen and Sambar.
She has been a member of Stare Taśmy, OCHO, London Improvisers Orchestra and Satoko Fuji Orchestra; she has worked with theatres and has improvised with poets, dancers and painters. […]
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Lucie Páchová is a sound artist and composer specializing in contemporary composition, experimental music, and improvisation. She often incorporates voice, objects, field recordings, and physical movement into her work.
Lucie holds a PhD from JAMU, focusing on live conducted improvisation. In 2011, she founded the quintet Talaqpo, performing compositions inspired by her experiences in Asia and Africa. Additionally, she composes for jazz orchestras such as Concept Art Orchestra and JazzDock Orchestra, as well as chamber groups including Arará, Love_me, Dunami ens., Paliome and Jungle Debris.
Lucie collaborates with organizations like Continuo Theatre, Prague Improvisation Orchestra and Stratocluster. Through her sound installations like Imaginary garden, VoiSineAgge, and Voisphere, she explores the physical aspects of sound, voice, and space. Lucie has participated in various music residencies worldwide including AIR Krems in Austria, A4 space in Bratislava, Slovakia, OneBeat in the USA, TAM in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, All about music in India, and workshops in Poland and Uganda. She is actively involved in educational and organizational activities focusing on voice, movement and collective improvisation. Recently, she has been organizing workshops on African folk songs, field recording, conducted improvisation and electronic music within the community. […]
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Clara Saleiro is a flutist specialized in the interpretation of contemporary music who loves the constant new experiences and challenges that music brings to her life.
She’s interested in the creative process of pieces and performances, the possible interactions between interpreter and composer and between music and other artistic areas, the symbiosis with electronic music and digital technology, and the interpretation of notated music as well as improvisation.
As the founding member of Noviga Projekto (AT) as well as flutist of the ensembles Vertixe Sonora (ES), Barcelona Modern (ES) and SUPERNOVA (PT), she debutes every year dozens of pieces from composers with whom she works directly and participates at several international music festivals.
Clara Saleiro is regularly invited to collaborate with different ensembles, orchestras and in different chamber formations, ranging from classical to contemporary repertoire, as well as with exploratory and improvised music groups. She is the flutist of the Pedro Melo Alves’ Omniae Large Ensemble (PT).
Clara began to play the flute when she was eight years old at Academia de Música S. Pio X de Vila do Conde, in her hometown in Portugal. Throughout her musical career she studied at renowned institutions of Portugal such as Artave, ANSO-Metropolitana and Universidade de Aveiro. Additionally, she completed a master’s degree at Royal Academy of Music in London, specialized in contemporary music at the flute studio of Stephanie Wagner (Remix Ensemble), completed postgraduate studies in contemporary music at Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), with the Klangforum Wien, and was part at the Lucerne Festival Academy (Switzerland), being a member of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. Furthermore, she studied improvisation at the Interferência’ courses. […]
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