Note of intent​

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When I began collaborating with composers on pieces combining writing and free improvisation, I was a performer of contemporary music on the one hand, and a “free” improviser on the other. I was looking for ways to combine the meticulous elaboration of musical universes - compositional work - with the thrill of the moment of improvisation. To express my music in a confrontation, a dialogue with the musical intimacy of a composer. To be able to rediscover these universes with each performance, to offer a different face to them, to take these musics where they themselves had not planned to go and let them take me where I would never have been without them, to let myself be surprised by the moment.

Allēlōn consists of four pieces for solo saxophone and installations and one piece for the musicians of Grch. Our ways of improvising are deployed within compositional constraints. This guarantees the identity conferred on the piece by its author and the durability of these musical universes. At the same time, they encourage the individual improvisers to express their own music.

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Allēlōn's music draws its vitality from encounters. In the dialogue of ideas, the teeming of creativity. As in a biotope where unity depends on diversity and nourishes it in return, Allēlōn's unity depends on the multiple links forged in experimental collaborativity. From Javier Muñoz Bravo's random electronics that distort our post-atonal languages, to Sérgio Rodrigo's micropolyrhythmic noise. From Mathias Berthod's drones and polytemporalities to Stéphane Clor's quasi-acoustic poetic cartography and Nan Zhang's DIY machinery, each piece resonates with the subtle imprints of others, their sometimes fleeting traces. The multiplicity of approaches and aesthetics mobilized melt into a common form, chiseled by Maïlys Trucat's sound, Romain Gneouchev's direction and Lino Pourquié's lighting. From moment to moment, all our voices mingle, in atmospheres that are sometimes dark and cinematic, sometimes luminous and ethereal, with noise, post-rock, ambient and minimalist contours... Between virtuosity and fragility, between exaltation and intimate meditation, controlled mastery and performative trance.

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Here, we create models that meet our ideals of society, we invest in ways of working that say something different. We stand in a breach that opens onto other ways of thinking about performance, work and music, in an artistic manifesto that celebrates the liveliness of improvisation and the writing of the moment.