This collaboration is the fruit of great friendship and exchange. In this dialogue between two of today's most exciting musicians, we question sounds and words, the erasure of the latter, the appearance of lines and their dissipation, memories, writing, their hypotheses, new furrows to be explored.
Clara and Alexis have decided to call their duo Dispars.
The term comes from Gilles Deleuze's Différence et Répétition .
"We call Dispars the dark precursor that relates heterogeneous and dispa-rate series (...) Dispars is differential and discordantial."
"The dispars is all at once (...) a point of contact or indiscernibility, distinguished in a fog of "neighborhood" or "extreme contiguity", and on whose edge, for it is also a deep fault, "swarm" (in the sense of anthill) small differences."
Coproduction
Météo, Abbaye de Noirlac and Murailles Music
Support
CNM ; Drac Auvergne Rhône-Alpes
Clara Lévy
Violinist, improviser
Clara Lévy is a French violinist and improviser whose career has focused mainly on so-called "creative" music. For several years now, she has been developing solo projects, questioning in turn the conditions of listening and the dramaturgy of the concert(Outre-Nuit), or the sometimes blurred boundaries between interpretation and composition(13 Visions). Her musical trajectory oscillates between collaborations with European ensembles (ONCEIM, Ensemble Ictus, HanatsuMiroir, Contemporary Insights...), composers (Erika Vega, Eva-Maria Houben, Clara de Asis, Jurg Frey, Karl Naegelen, Kaija Saariaho, Szymon Brzoska, Klaus Lang) and one-off projects such as l'Oriole with Stéphane Clor, Dispars with Alexis Degrenier and C IME an ensemble of 6 female improvisers with Pom Bouvier-B, Célia Jankowski, Hanna Kölbel, Audrey Lauro and Ségolène Neyroud.
Equally active in dance and performance, she has performed alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui(Sutra) and worked with choreographers such as Vera Tussing, Jan Rohwedder and more recently Billy Bultheel and James Richards(Workers In Song).
All these experiences have enabled her to work in a variety of contexts, including: Wiener Modern (AT), Donaueschinger Muziktag (DE), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Biennale Di Venezia (IT), Archipel (CH), Oscillation (BE), Bayreuther Festspiele (DE), Ozasia Festival (AU), Meteo (FR), Senghor (BE), Kaaistudio (BE), Théâtre de la Monnaie (BE), Café OTO (UK) Lille Opera (FR), Xornadas de Musica Contemporanea (ES), Opéra de Strasbourg (FR)...
Alexis Degrenier
Percussionist
Alexis Degrenier lives and works near Clermont-Ferrand.
After studying classical percussion and composition, Alexis Degrenier decided to take a path that was as varied as it was remote. Ligeti, the metric systems of Maqam and Middle Eastern music, the pulsations of everyday mechanics, the music of Central France and the study of oblique listening to sound spaces.
He draws his inspiration from literature and philosophy to extract what he wishes to transform: the concept into affect.
So he learns as much from oral tradition as from written music in his instrumental practice, and decides to combine forms for his solo for percussion and objects Mouvements fantômes, membres miroirs where time is transformed into durations to become an (in)exhausted beat, a solo he wishes to move according to spaces and possibilities.
Today, he collaborates with La Tène, La Nòvia's In C project, and has played with the group Tanz Mein Herz, the ensemble Minisym, the insub. Meta Orchestra, the percussion trio Cerbère, co-composes OutreNoir (with Golem Mécanique) and produces the music for Rose Lowder's films, as well as composing the music for choreographer Olivia Grandville's show À l'Ouest.
In 2022, he became a music teacher at ESACM (Clermont-Ferrand art school).
His first solo album La mort aura tes yeux was released by Standard in-fi and Murailles Music in 2022.
Clara Lévy
violin
Alexis Degrenier
percussion, mechanics, amplified objects, skins, resonators, stones, wood, rubbing, beating, bodies, hands, controlled alarm clocks, circles and metronomes, drone boxes
Étienne Foyer
sound