Jessica Ekomane 
Electronic musician and sound artist 
An electronic musician and sound artist born in France and based in Berlin, Jessica Ekomane creates situations where sound acts as a transformative element for both the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical impact, seek to achieve a cathartic state through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures, and the alternation between noise and melody. Her immersive and ever-evolving soundscapes explore questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics, or the study of listening expectations and their societal roots.
Her debut LP, *Multivocal*, releasedin 2019 on Important Records, emerged from a musical nap project at Ars Electronica, organized by Shu-Lea Chang and Matthew Fuller. Since then, her work has been widely presented at festivals, concert halls, contemporary art spaces, and museums around the world, including Hamburger Bahnhof, Reina Sofía, Kanal Pompidou, Art Basel, Villa Massimo, CTM Festival, Café OTO, and Gedächtniskirche.... She was among the composers selected by Natascha Sadr Haghigian to collaborate on her installationAnkerzentrum at theGerman Pavilion of the 2019 Venice Biennale, alongside Maurice Louca, DJ Marfox, Jako Maron, Tisha Mukarji, and Elnaz Seyedi. She is currently one of the artists-in-residence for the 2023 Villa Romana Prize in Florence. — www.jessicaekomane.com 

La Nòvia
Collective 
Founded in 2009, La Nòvia is a collective based in Haute-Loire. Now comprising some fifteen artists, teachers, and theorists (from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, Île-de-France, and elsewhere), this collective has come together to coordinate its efforts and reflections on traditional and/or experimental music. Thanks to the support of local governments, civil society organizations, and several other partners (the Scène Nationale de Nantes, the Centre Pompidou, AMTA, the MMC, Les Instants Chavirés, and others), La Nòvia has produced several works:La Baracande, the Trio Puech Gourdon Brémaud, Flux, In C, l’Autre, Maintes Fois, Au Seuil du Vent, La Harde, Sand, Frêne, Biais, La Trêve, De l’Errance l’Oubli... joining the collective’s existing ensembles that perform throughout France, Europe, and internationally. La Nòvia benefits from a grant agreement with the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and support from the Onda for its innovative approach. — www.la-novia.fr 

Perrine Bourrel 
Violin 
Perrine Bourrel is a fiddler. She received a unique violin education from traditional Irish musicians and studied the music of fiddlers from the Southern Alps and the Dauphiné region under a farmer-fiddler in the mountains of Lure. Far removed from the academic conventions of violin playing, her work explores the intersections between traditional and contemporary experimental music. Collaborating with artists from diverse backgrounds reveals facets that broaden her playing, her practice, and her concepts. Encounters with specific sites and landscapes become the focus of her research and lead to sound experiments, where the violin serves as a medium of exploration that extends beyond the realm of music. As a soloist and in various groups within the La Nòvia collective, she performs repertoires of traditional music from the Hautes-Alpes, works by contemporary composers (Terry Riley, Guilhem Lacroux, Yann Gourdon...), and solo compositions. — www.perrinebourel.com 

Basile Brémaud
Violon
Basile Brémaud performs traditional music from the Massif Central (Auvergne, Limousin, Languedoc). He is deeply moved by the power of this art form, where singing, dancing, and instrumental performance tend to become one. Today, he explores the sound and energy present in this music. He experiments daily with how these elements translate into movement through the dance groups he has founded (Duo Artense, Tornamai, Tres, La Cleda, Fai Petar). He contextualizes his practice through historical music (participation in Les Musiciens de St Julien, under the direction of François Lazarevitch) and experimental music within the La Nòvia collective (Trio Puech / Gourdon / Brémaud, La Baracande, Flux). Basile draws inspiration for his music from field recordings made with folk musicians and singers. He has also met the musicians and collectors who have kept this music alive for 40 years, such as Jean-Marc Delaunay, Jean-Pierre Champeval, and Oliver Durif... From 2000 to 2003, he taught violin at Les Brayauds-CDMDT43. In 2003, he earned a DEM in traditional violin (CNR of Limoges) and, since 2005, has held a DE in traditional music education. — www.basilebremaud.bandcamp.com 

Antoine Cognet 
Banjo 
Antoine Cognet has been playing guitar since the age of seven with the association Les Brayauds-CDMDT63. He quickly began taking lessons outside the world of traditional music, exploring very different styles. Around 2010, he set the guitar aside and began seriously studying the tenor banjo. Playing this instrument, combined with various encounters, opened up possibilities for experimentation he had never imagined with the guitar. The world of electrification and the exploration of sound through the possibilities offered by effects, amplifiers, and pickups steered his music in new directions. Still a dance band musician, Antoine plays in various groups (Super Parquet, Dordogne, Jéricho, Komred), where the need to question the repertoire and performance styles within the Les Brayauds-CDMDT63 association is an integral part of the development of his artistic practice. Alongside his activities as a musician, he also puts his video editing skills to work for music, through the production or editing of music videos (Super Parquet, CRIMI, Les Brayauds). 

Pierre-Vincent Fortunier 
11-hole Béchonnet bagpipes, violin 
Pierre-Vincent Fortunier has performed in various traditional music ensembles open to contemporary and/or improvised practices, notably La Petite Pérole (1994–1999) andLe Syndrome de l’Ardèche (1998–2009). In recent years, he has focused his work on an electroacoustic approach to the bagpipes, both in terms of its implementation and its vocabulary. And, as a museographer/sonographer, he reflects on the meaning and use of sound in exhibitions. He is a member of the groups Toad, La Baracande, Tanz Mein Herz, and Pied Gauche. 

Nina Garcia
GElectric guitar
Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been conducting research and creating work centered on the electric guitar, straddling the line between improvised music and noise. Her setup is stripped down to the bare essentials: a guitar, a pedal, and an amp, with which she sculpts the sound and delves into chaos to bring forth the unheard. For her solo performance, Mariachi, the focus is on the gesture and the exploration of the instrument—its resonances, limits, extensions, imperfections, and audible nooks and crannies: going with or against it, containing it or letting it ring out, supporting it or assaulting it. More of a duo than a solo, it astounds with this blend of technical mastery and total freedom. Nina Garcia also performs with Arnaud Rivière in Autoreverse; in a duo with Danish trombonist Maria Bertel; in a duo with percussionist Camille Émaille; and as part of the group mamiedaragon. Since 2019, she has been a member of the improvisation ensemble Le Un, which brings together 25 European improvisational musicians. In 2020–21, she is in residence at the GRM for a commission for the Présences Électroniques festival. She has also been involved in organizing concerts and promoting and sharing experimental music for nearly 10 years. Until 2021, she was in charge of cultural programming for Instants Chavirés, then served as co-programmer for concerts in 2020 and 2021. She is dedicated to education in this field, leading workshops for art students (EsadHar, Le Havre) and for children in schools (Le DOC, Saint-Germain d’Ectot). — www.parabailarlabamba.fr

Clément Gauthier
Chant, chabrette
A former Egyptologist, Clément Gauthier became a professional musician and singer in 2010. He has been singing since childhood, but it was in 2005 that he rediscovered the traditional music of the Occitan region and the French countryside. Guided by encounters and regular contact with instrument makers, dancers, and traditional musicians, he received an empirical education characteristic of traditional oral transmission. 
Since 2015, he has been exploring the concepts of musical modes and microtonality in Occitan vocal music through a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates classical and folk traditions—including Byzantine, Gregorian, Hindustani, Iranian, and Arab—with Occitan traditions. He also studies and performs the repertoire of Occitan troubadours, a true melting pot of Mediterranean cultures. He performs, both vocally and instrumentally, experimental and contemporary pieces composed by artists such as Yvan Etienne, Phil Niblock, Yann Gourdon, and Guilhem Lacroux, and notably, TerryRiley’s *In C*for voice. He shares his approach to traditional singing in various venues and has been offering workshops since 2013. He has also served as an instructor within the FAMDT/ADAMI mentorship grant program. A member of the La Nòvia collective, he collaborates on several projects ranging from balèti to concerts, and from early to contemporary music, within various ensembles: Serr / Sere, Serr, Jéricho, Au seuil du vent, L’autre, Frêne, Sorgues... — www.clement-gauthier.com 

Yann Gourdon 
Composition, direction, hurdy-gurdy, electronics 
Yann Gourdon views vibrational fields and sound perception as a medium. His work focuses on observing acoustic phenomena in dynamic relation to the environment: architecture and landscape. Concurrently, he performs traditional music from the Massif Central on the hurdy-gurdy, which he approaches by listening to field recordings, and works on this repertoire within the collective La Nòvia. Yann is actively engaging in artistic collaborations (Basma Alsharif, Ben Russell, Kazu Makino, Olivier Mellano, Jambinaï, Širom, Yvan Etienne, Marie Richeux, Erwan Keravec, Grégoire Orio, Esher Mysius & Camille Rouaud, Delphine Reist, Antez, Jérôme Noetinger, Pascal Broccolichi...) and deepens his personal research into sound and experimental music. He is also a member of the group France, an experimental and minimalist rock trio featuring hurdy-gurdy, bass, and drums, and performs in a duo with Portuguese guitarist Filipe Felizardo. In 2003, he earned a DEM in electroacoustic composition at the ENM in Villeurbanne, then enrolled at the ERBA in Valence. Since 2009, he has taught at art schools (HEAD in Geneva, ESAD in Saint-Étienne, HEA du Rhin...) and led workshops exploring the role of sound in the visual arts. In 2010, he received an individual creation grant from the DRAC Auvergne. In 2020, he was a SHAPE artist, a European platform for innovative music and audiovisual art. — www.ygourdon.net 

Guilhem Lacroux 
Songwriting, conducting, electric guitar 
Whether playing guitar, lap steel, or archlute, or composing vocal, instrumental, and electroacoustic music, Guilhem Lacroux offers instinctive music imbued with mysticism, moving from intimate lightness to universal gravity. He develops his work around motif and melody as drivers of memory and the alteration of temporal perception. 
He studied composition with Denis Dufour at the CNR in Lyon, and with Robert Pascal and Jean-Louis Florentz at the CNSM in Lyon. In 1999, he earned his DEM in music analysis with a thesis on the work of Conlon Nancarrow. 
He regularly composes for musicians and ensembles, including Calliope Voix de Femmes (conducted by Régine Théodoresco), Spirito, and Résonance Contemporaine. He also writes music for films and museum exhibitions. Following residencies at the Conservatories of Château-Gontier and Voiron and a master class at the Pôle Supérieur in Rennes, he is currently in a composition residency at the CRR in Annecy through 2024. He is a member of the groups Faune, Toad, La Baracande, Tanz Mein Herz, and La Tène...

Clara Lévy 
Violin 
Clara Lévy is a violinist and improviser whose career focuses primarily on so-called “contemporary” music. She regularly collaborates with European ensembles such as L'ONCEIM, HanatsuMiroir, and Ictus, as well as composers Erika Vega, Eva-Maria Houben, Clara de Asis, Jürg Frey, Karl Naegelen, Kaija Saariaho, Szymon Brzoska, and Klaus Lang... In recent years, she has been developing solo projects, exploring in turn the conditions of listening and the dramaturgy of the concert (Outre-Nuit), or the sometimes blurred boundaries between performance and composition (13 Visions). Passionate about contemporary dance and performance, she performs on stage alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Sutra) and works with choreographers such as Vera Tussing and Jan Rohwedder. — www.clara-levy.com 

Jacques Puech
Cabrette
A native of Cantal, Jacques Puech has been interested in traditional music since childhood. He began playing the cabrette—the bagpipe of the Massif Central—at the Aurillac music school and quickly learned to dance at local dances. He came to understand the connection between these various practices by getting involved with the community education association Les Brayauds-CDMDT63 as a volunteer, musician, and instructor for the music school. After earning a DEM at the CRR in Limoges with Françoise Etay and Philippe Destrem, he continued his studies at CEFEDEM Rhône-Alpes with Jean Blanchard, where he was exposed to other musical styles and musicians from diverse backgrounds (including Ernest Bergez, with whom he would later perform in the Sourdurent project ). In 2008, his meeting with Yann Gourdon and his joining the La Nòvia collective led him to reexamine his approach to traditional music, particularly in terms of its contrast and complementarity with experimental music, and its relationship to timbre, sonic challenges, and space. In 2017, he performed as a soloist in a piece for cabrette written by Thierry Pécou and performed in Clermont-Ferrand by the Auvergne Orchestra (conducted by Roberto Forés Veses). He trained in field research and ethnography and worked in this capacity with José Dubreuil (anthropologist) and Luc Mazuel (geographer), traveling throughout the Auvergne region to meet with residents and learn about their knowledge and skills, and serving as the primary contact for the creation of sound atlases and the production of films and web documentaries.

David Fauroux 
Sound Engineer 
As a child, David Fauroux studied for several years at the conservatory. He then learned to play the guitar and bass, performing with various bands. This experience sparked a passion for sound engineering and recording: beginning in 2003, he trained in sound techniques. A professional technician since 2006, he has worked at traditional dances, festivals, and shows, collaborating with numerous musicians. At the same time, he resumed his studies at the CRD in Le Puy-en-Velay (CFEM and graduate studies in double bass). Since 2008, he has also been a bassist (James Van Deek, Da Capo…) and double bassist (Lo Radzouka). In 2013, he joined La Nòvia as the sound engineer for the group Jéricho. David serves as sound engineer for several festivals (notably Les Basaltiques). Since 2019, he has handled sound for the group Sourdurent, thenSourdure (Ernest Bergez’s solo project), and has managed the sound production for numerous projects by the La Nòvia collective.

Grégoire Orio
Sset design, video, lighting
Originally from Tours, Grégoire Orio lives and works in Paris as a director, cinematographer, editor, set designer, and photographer. Interested in poetic and experimental forms, after studying languages and film, he began working as a videographer, which led him to collaborate with numerous musical artists and to reflect on the connections between music and image. At the same time, he developed a scenographic approach to lighting design, notably in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Hélène Rocheteau, as well as with various musical artists. Part of his work focuses on documentary forms, with the aim of exploring how to film sound: *Empreinte*, *Verdaillon*... He subsequently undertook a project in Lebanon with the band Oiseaux-Tempête and co-directed with Grégoire Couvert the film Khamsin, producedby Stank (Jury Prize at the Turin Film Festival, 2019; Best Feature-Length Documentary Award at Les Nouveaux Alchimistes at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal 2020; selected in the “Expériences du Regard” category at the Etats Généraux du film documentaire, Lussas 2020. At the same time, he collaborated as a director with various artists from the La Nòvia collective and directed the short film Mathilde withmusician/collector Jacques Puech, produced by AMTA and selected for the “Les Mondes Paysans” retrospective at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival 2020. — www.gregoireorio.com