Bastien Boni
Double bass player, composer and improviser
Bastien Boni is a double bass player, composer and improviser, with degrees from the École Nationale de Musique d'Avignon and Aix-Marseille University. He composes for theater, film, audiovisual and contemporary dance, and creates sound installations. His career has taken him to perform in France and abroad (Europe, Asia, Middle East).
He has collaborated with numerous artists and ensembles, including Joe McPhee, Hamid Drake, Raymond Boni, and dance and theater companies such as MEAARi, Incidence and Théâtre de Cuisine. An active member of several bands and the Gand8 collective, he explores musical improvisation and innovative projects.
He also runs artistic workshops for children and students (Université Clermont Auvergne, Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence). Trained at the ISTS in Avignon, he is also a stage manager.

João Fernandes
Composer and improviser
João Fernandes is a composer and improviser of electroacoustic and mixed music. He develops his musical universe using digital instruments of his own design. Fascinated by the interaction between acoustic and digital instruments, he collaborates with various instrumentalists such as Raymond Boni, Catherine Jauniaux, Bastien Boni, Amir El Saffar, Emmanuel Cremer, Nicolò Terrasi and Gabriel Peraza. He also participates in several free improvisation ensembles, notably the Grand8. His musical training is based on a long instrumental career, including flute, guitar, voice and organ, with which he has performed since the age of 5. As a composer, his instrumental and electroacoustic works have been performed in many countries, including his piece Epítome, performed by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and M, for which he received the Erasmus Prize.João Fernandes is also a teacher-researcher in music, musicology and new technologies. His research focuses on the analysis and development of digital instruments for free musical improvisation. He currently teaches at the University of Lille.