Sig Valax
sound artist

Sigolène Valax plays the Persephone, an analog synthesizer controlled by a ribbon, amplified on a guitar amp. These are granular masses, insolent spectral vibrations, hissing, muffled beats, levitating waves, and so many textures both terrestrial and very cosmic, that she reveals through her touch.

Léo Dupleix
sound artist

Léo Dupleix, when he doesn't play saturated grains or lines via maxmsp, manipulates a theater of things endowed with vibratory and tactile mechanisms, sensors on modest objects: plastic cups, cans, springs, marbles, tambourine... that he amplifies, or not, via nomadic vibratory speakers. He plays and breaks with agility the iteration of the gesture or the persistence of an unspecified sound, by the means of temporal constraints, of partitions, or deviating and bringing out of frontality the presences: his physical presence, that of his game, that of the object. The low-tech and the acoustics meet with conscience, with the relevance of the ordinary.

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= Sig Valax, Anna Gaïotti, Léo Dupleix

vierge noir e is a musical chimera, a body with 3 noisy heads, which knot, untie and retie the coils of sound improvisation. The music argues and abysses as much in space as in time, the nothing or the surplus are performative choices; and on the playground, the 3 musicians do not unite in prey to the frontality of a concert, but wear out the spaces that one gives them. It is in the interaction of their 3 presences and their singular and proper corporalities that the sound arises and listens and breaks. Also black virgin works the relation or the friction between the discipline of the musical movement and the staging of the space-time sound gesture. Beyond a stake in the contingencies and their acuity of listening, vierge noir e visits their work of improvisation by the constraining systems, imagining protocols of duration and repetition, playing of the partitions of Taku Sugimoto, Manfred Werder and Karlheinz Stockhausen using the physical censure or the sound censure, or by speaking to themselves, dictating themselves or playing on the temporalities. So many tasks or almost writings which are digested tools to better explode the abandonments and regrets in live. In their reflection on improvisation and improvised music, silence appears as a necessity: it can be considered as a musical object, a subject, a tendency, a shared soul, a musical gesture: a resistance, an insistence, a rendezvous, a stop or a note... Since their formation in 2016, vierge noir e has explored various relationships and scenic formats, using the spaces that are within their reach (interiors and exteriors) and temporalities (concerts ranging from 5 minutes to 4 hours non-stop). Under the choreographic direction of Anna Gaïotti, they create the pieces BAL DES LAZE (2019), LES ANTÉCÉDENTES (2020) and A Kiss Without Lips (2021). - www.vierge-noir-e.org