John Wall + Claire Gapenne & Julien Desprez + C Folle

John Wall

John Wall is a London-based electroacoustic composer and improviser who first began to make music at the age of 40 when he acquired his first sampler. Between 1993 and 2005 he released seven albums on his own Utterpsalm label to considerable critical acclaim. Beginning with samples appropriated from his CD collection, he gradually refined his music away from his early collage approach to create a highly individual music using tiny fragments of sounds specifically recorded for him, which were then processed and refined in his home studio. Known for his meticulous attention to detail and the considerable length of time each piece of music takes to make, his releases sound like the most finely crafted audio sculptures, somewhere between the contemporary composition of Lachenmann and the experiments of the early laptop musicians of the mid 90s. After struggling for months to complete 2005's stunning twenty-minute work Cphon, Wall went quiet, only to re-emerge a couple of years later as an improviser standing behind a laptop, a role that seemed to fly in the face of everything expected of him as a musician.

https://johnwall.bandcamp.com/

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Claire Gapenne & Julien Desprez

A meeting between Julien Desprez on guitar and Claire Gapenne on drum machine. Textured patterns from repurposed instruments. Semi-permanent improvisation. Who’s doing what...?

Terrine, aka Claire Gapenne, has been performing solo since 2012. She makes radical and spontaneous electronic music, somewhere between no-techno and surgical noise. Originally from Amiens, she was an active member of the industrial rock group Headwar and is currently involved in Jazzoux (with Amédée de Murcia) and Yves St Rocher (with David Bausseron). Her recordings are available on numerous labels such as No Lagos, Tanzprocesz, Bruit Direct, and Third Type Tape. Terrine advocates for music that is free and unlabelled.

Although free jazz and rock were his first musical loves, Julien Desprez was quickly drawn to more liberated artistic forms that disregard aesthetic boundaries and make room for improvisation. Today, he approaches the guitar more like a drum, an organ, a modifiable and expandable instrument. He recently created "Arc," a sound and choreographic performance where different mediums of expression succeed one another to explore and reveal the relationship between human emotions, love, and electrical intensity.

Julien Desprez is the co-director and founder of the Coax collective, with numerous collaborations including Mette Rasmussen, Farida Amadou, Audrey Chen (Mopcut), and others.

https://www.terrine.bandcamp.com
https://www.juliendesprez.com/

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C Folle

https://soundcloud.com/cfolle