Grch

Improvisation ensemble

Clarinet, electric and classical guitars, violin, saxophones, voice, sound objects

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A circle in the middle of an audience. Four musicians face each other, oppose each other, forge links, work on matter, masses and momentum. A ritual circle, a metaphor for the spiral circulation of creative thoughts, a listening circle, a circle symbolic of an acephalous functioning. Before each concert, Grch takes elements found around the venue to recreate this ephemeral scenography, the keystone of their musical process.

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Grch was born in 2022, when a core group of fifteen students from the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg gradually emerged from a research ensemble. It wasn't a shared aesthetic that initially bound the Grch members together, but a passion for improvised processes and a desire to play music with multiple personalities. It was from this desire that Grch's identity and aesthetic gradually developed. The four musicians in this core group, with their heterogeneous musical personalities, have been meeting every week since then to take the time to experiment, to let the group's identity emerge, that little extra soul that can't be summed up by the addition of their five identities.