Microvolumes 4.48

Concert with dinner offer: 6 sonos

Rua de Silva Porto 217

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Éric Normand

Improviser, bassist, instrument designer, composer, singer and music and concert producer.

As an improviser, he develops a personal and radical performance on a homemade electric bass equipped with microphones and objects that re-power and vibrate small electronic devices, creating an electric flow interrupted by the instrumental gesture.

With this ensemble he favours duets with Jim Denley (flute and sax), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet and sax), Xavier Charles (clarinet), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola de gamba and electronics), Jean-Luc Guionnet (saxophone), as well as various spontaneous encounters.

He also composes for ensembles and multidisciplinary projects.

Interested in collective creation and orchestral improvisation, he led the Grand groupe régional d'improvisation libérée (GGRIL) for seven years, a 15-piece band that worked with composers such as Evan Parker, Jean Derome, Robert Marcel Lepage and Michael Fischer.

Their music has been programmed or performed at various festivals in Canada, Australia and Europe. It has also been broadcast by Radio-Canada, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, Radio Grenouille and various university radio stations.

https://actuellecd.com/.../norman.../eric-normand/biographie

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Xavier Charles

The work of clarinettist Xavier Charles ranges from noise to electroacoustics to sound poetry. He has played at various new music festivals in France and abroad. Charles collaborates with Jacques Di Donato and Frederic Le Junter. In his work with groups and collectives, he has also collaborated with Martin Tétreault, The Ex, Peirre Berthet, Étage 34, Axel Dörner, Jérôme Jeanmart, John Butcher, Jean Pallandre, Marc Pichelin, Chris Cutler, Martine Altenburger, Camel Zékri, Emmanuelle Pellegrini, Michel Donéda and Frédéric Blondy. The artist has composed for theatre, mainly for the Compagnie François Lazaro. Currently, his musical research ranges from performance on clarinet and bass to the installation of vibrating loudspeakers, on the edge of improvised music, noise rock and electroacoustic sonorities. He is deeply involved in the world of music as the organiser of the Densités festival.

https://electrocd.com/.../charl.../xavier-charles/biographie

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