Research Action 1 / Lille

Research Action 1 / Lille
Date
7 October 2024 – 13 October 2024    
Location
27 rue du Pont Neuf, Lille

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 – 8 pm – Concert Access + Jack Wright & Raoul Van Der Weide (infos)
Sat. 12 Oct. 2024 – 4 pm – Concert (infos)
Sun. 13 Oct. 2024 – 4 pm – Concert (infos)

Discover the artistic team :

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. […] Read more…
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. […] Read more…