Julien Desprez
PPerformer
After a year of self-taught guitar lessons, pursued alongside his studies in cabinetmaking, Julien Desprez trained for four years at the École Nationale de Musique et de Danse de Yerres, then continued his studies for two years at the Conservatoire de Montreuil. 
While jazz and rock were his initial influences, he quickly turned toward more open musical forms, free from aesthetic constraints and placing improvisation at the center. His relationship with the instrument, music, and space was profoundly transformed as a result. The guitar ceases to be a mere melodic tool and becomes an extended drum kit, a sound organ, a modular device that can be adapted and deployed according to the situation.
His encounter with Grégory Edelein plays a decisive role. It opens up a field of reflection and practice centered on the musician’s body, now fully engaged in the act of playing. This work places the body at the heart of each of his performances. 
At the intersection of sound art, performance, and contemporary improvised music, Julien Desprez’s work today explores the relationships between body, space, and light on the stage, while maintaining sound as the central axis. His performances, situated halfway between choreography—without being danced—set design, and concert, shift the musician’s position: he is no longer merely a producer of sound, but a full-fledged physical performer.
From this approach emerge hybrid artistic forms, fostering permeability between disciplines. His recent creations are part of this dynamic: Coco exploresthe boundaries between sound and choreographic practices by playing with identities, whileAcapulco Redux developsa musical form capable of accommodating and bringing together sounds from all fields and aesthetics. 
At the same time, Julien Desprez is a co-founder of Collectif Coax, a Paris-based musicians’ cooperative founded in 2008. — juliendesprez.com 

Terrine(aka Claire Gapenne) 
Performer 
Claire Gapenne has been performing solo since 2012. Her radical and spontaneous electronic music lies somewhere between no-techno and surgical noise.
A native of Amiens, she is a former active member of the industrial rock band Headwar. Currently, she performs with Jazzoux (with Amédée de Murcia) and with Julien Desprez. In 2018, she conducted the Orchestre Inharmonique de Nice. Today, she is working with poet-artist Amandine Testu on an art brut puppet theater piece. She collaborates with numerous labels such as No Lagos, Tanzprocesz, Bruit Direct, and Third Type Tape… She has performed at numerous venues and festivals such as Instants Chavirés, Cave 12, Café Oto, Ateliers Claus, Schiev, UH Fest, and LUFF. Terrine advocates for free, genre-defying music.