Claudine Simon
Pianist, artist

Claudine Simon is a pianist and artist, developing a body of sound creation that experiments with the construction and capabilities of her instrument. A versatile musician, she has a taste for writing at the boundaries between music, dance and visual art. Trained at the CNSMD in Paris with Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, her many encounters have nourished her career and artistic practice. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at the Opéra de Lyon, La Roque d'Anthéron, Opéra Comique, Cité de la Musique, Hôtel National des Invalides, Tautavel and Aix-en-Provence festivals, as well as abroad (tours of India, China, Europe, etc.).
She is committed to defending the works of the repertoire as well as those of today's composers. At the same time, her creative work focuses on the conception of scenic forms that allow her to question her relationship with the instrument.
In 2021, she will create "Pianomachine", a choreographed solo in which the musician-instrument relationship is replayed with a piano hybridized by machines. An electromechanical device intervenes at the heart of the piano and its structure, enabling her to work in its entrails.
In 2023, she created "Anatomia" at the Musica festival in Strasbourg, a sound and visual piece in which a piano and a scene from a romantic recital are decomposed.
She is a laureate of the French Ministry of Culture's "Mondes Nouveaux" call for projects, and receives writing grants from the Fondation Beaumarchais-SACD, as well as commissions from the GMEM in Marseille and Césaré - CNCM in reims. His creations have been performed at Les Bouffes du Nord, Scènes Nationales (Orléans, Chambéry, Vandœuvre), Operas (Lyon, Reims, Dijon), the Musica festival in Strasbourg, and CNCMs.  

Rudy Decelière
Visual artist

Born in 1979 in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune (France), Rudy Decelière lives and works in Geneva.
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Genève with Carmen Perrin (1999-2003), and explores sound art primarily through the medium of installation, proposing both outdoor and indoor spaces, in perpetual relation to their situations, architectural components and native soundscapes (Abbatiale de Bellelay 2012, Musée Jenisch 2013, Bex & Arts 2014, Lausanne Jardins 2014, CERN 2016, Ural Biennial 2017).
His parallel role as sound recordist for cinema and sound designer for interdisciplinary pieces (Alexandre Doublet, Maya Bösch, Nicolas Leresche & Anne Delahaye, Jean-Louis Johannides) has given rise to multiple reflections on sound, its space and the relationship or limits these have with music, occasionally giving rise to performances or multi-track pieces broadcast for the occasion.
Enriched by his cinematic experiences (Donatella Bernardi, Marco Poloni, Samantha Granger), Rudy Decelière works mainly with concrete sounds rendered variably abstract, bringing into play the perceptive limits of the listener.

Thomas Garçin
Piano maker

After studying piano and obtaining his diplomas from the CRR de Chambéry, Thomas Garcin turned to the technical discovery of the instrument, apprenticing with the Institut Européen des Métiers de la Musique, as well as with an approved Steinway & Sons concert service company. After graduating from the Brevet des Métiers d'Art, he set up the company Accord & Co to follow an ideology, a quest for precision and quality; an encounter between artists, music and technique.
It's in his workshop that he breathes new life into historic pianos dating from 1843, as well as modern pianos by leading brands such as Steinway and Sons, Bösendorfer and Fazioli: structural work, varnishing, tuning, sound work... As a concert technician, he works with a number of recording studios, record companies and artists such as Katia and Marielle Labèque, Alexandre Tharaud, Ibrahim Maalouf...
In his quest for research, he now turns his attention to unique projects that take instrument making to a new level; a different kind of sound and musical research.

Pau Simon
Choreographic artist

Pau Simon is a protean choreographic artist. He trained at the CNR de Lyon before entering the Conservatoire supérieur de Paris (CNSMD) in the contemporary dance program. Iel gradually broadened his practice to include martial arts, contact dance and music.
Graduating in 2007 from the DE program at the CND de Pantin, Iel attended workshops with Odile Duboc, Loïc Touze and Mathieu Bouvier, Fanny De Chaillé, La Ribot, Vincent Dupont, Jennifer Lacey, Elisabeth Lebovici, Noé Soulier, Jeremy Wade and Julyen Hamilton. Since 2012, Iel has been developing multidisciplinary work through the Suprabénigne association, including "Exploit" (first prize and audience prize in the Danse Elargie competition at Théâtre de la Ville), "Sérendipité, Perlaborer, Pendulum, et Postérieurs, Lo-fi dance, Per que Torcut Dansan Lo Monde" in collaboration with Ernest Bergez (Sourdure).
His various works have been created at the Ménagerie de Verre, Théâtre des Abbesses, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, in Avignon as part of the sujets à vifs series, and at the Centre Pompidou as part of the Museum ON / OFF exhibition.
He is invited as a "collector" of sound documents for the Encyclopédie de la Parole, or in research groups at the FAR festival in Nyon and at the international meetings of the Festival Transamériques (Montreal).

Lucien Laborderie
Lighting design

Strongly influenced by contemporary dance, Lucien Laborderie seeks simple, abstract lighting, close to the body and performers. After completing a DMA in lighting design, he graduated from the Lighting Design Master's program at ENSATT.
Based in Paris, he designs for a number of young companies, in parallel with his work as lighting director, notably for choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou and the Théâtre du Peuple in Bussang.