Grch
Improvisation ensemble
Clarinet, electric and classical guitars, violin, saxophones, voice, sound objects
A circle in the middle of an audience. Four musicians face each other, oppose each other, forge bonds, work on the material, the masses, the momentum. A ritual circle, a metaphor for the spiral flow of creative thoughts, a circle of listening, a symbolic circle of acephalous functioning.
Grch was born in 2022 when a core group gradually emerged from within an experimental research ensemble. It was not a shared aesthetic that first brought the members of Grch together, but a passion for improvisational processes and a desire to play music based on multiple personalities. It was from this desire that Grch's identity gradually developed. The four musicians of this core group, with their diverse musical personalities, have been meeting every week since then to take the time to experiment and let the group's identity emerge, that little extra soul that cannot be summed up by the sum of their four identities.
Performers :
Irene Rossetti — composer and improvising clarinetist with a classical background —
Aquila Lescene — noise improviser forged in metal, visual artist, guitarist and singer —
Alexis Tedde — multi-instrumentalist at ease in both noise and metal, in both classical and contemporary repertoire —
Olivier Duverger Houpert — improviser with a contemporary music background and multiple influences —
