1 ELMS WILLDICK

Karen Willems + Stijn Dickel

“Elms Willdick is a musical live duo that explores sounds, rhythms and harmonies in an intuitive way. Occasionally they flirt with musical genres and traditions, but once they get too close, they quickly run away from it. They also leave their instrument, which they feel most at home, to help shape their musical zoo with the metronome, bicycle chain and megaphone. Their performances are infectious and exude an ode to play, improvisation and imagination.” (Concertgebouw Brugge)

Elms Willdick has a fundamental interest in the borders of music and sound in a performative context. A recurring question in their research (Q-O2, N9, De Werf / KAAP) is when and how does sound empowers (or not) what we see, and vice-versa. How to perform a sound without sounding a performance?

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2 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. He also works for dance shows.

For live performance, he collaborates with Stéphane Garin (Dénombrement), Jean-Luc Guionnet (Angle), Axel Dörner, eRikm, Marc Baron, Francisco Meirino, Jérôme Noetinger, John Hegre (Black Packers), Clare Cooper (Nevers) … and as this list of partners expresses it so well, his music can be as much sound embroidery than some tank skidding on a wet field. Never locked into any systematism, Jean-Philippe Gross allows himself extremes – taking  advantage of a wide field of possibilities and pays particular attention to the timbre, grain and quality of sound, even rough.

Founder of the association Fragment in 2001, programmer from 2001 to 2010.

He created in 2019 the label Eich