WHY PATTERNS?
Repetitive music group

At the end of 2017, Morgane Carnet (saxophone), Luca Ventimiglia (prepared vibraphone), Jean-Brice Godet (clarinet) and Alexandre du Closel (prepared piano) met at the initiative of the latter in a café in Ménilmontant to improvise together inspired by American repetitive music. FANTôME was born. As their meetings progressed, the project became clear: to play repetitive music in the footsteps of Terry Riley or Steve Reich, adding sounds, timbres and forms from improvised music and free jazz. Thus, loops, shifts and repetitions-variations coexist with a work on sound and a certain expressiveness. The music becomes matter in perpetual movement. The few beginnings of dialogue are soon swallowed up by the totality because, in this group, no voice prevails over the others, and, on the contrary, all are intimately interdependent. Creators of a vibratory and sensitive experience, the musicians are the transmitters of a flow that comes from elsewhere and goes beyond them.
Winner of Jazz Migration in 2021, FANTôME becomes WHY PATTERNS? in 2022 following the departure of Jean Brice Godet. He is replaced by the saxophonist Théo Nguyen duc Long.

Morgane Carnet
Saxophonist

After classical studies in clarinet at the Conservatory of Caen, Morgane Carnet studied jazz and improvised music at the Conservatories of the 13th and 9th districts of Paris, then graduated from the Conservatory of Montreuil in 2016. Musician, saxophonist, clarinetist, singer, she co-leads and/or plays in various projects like Qonicho Ah! and Qonicho B!, Selen Peacock, 4L, Infernale Momus, Dilo Roman. She can also be heard in Futura Experience with, among others, Jean-Francois Pauvros, Sylvain Kassap, Michel Edelin, Sophia Domancich, in Healing Orchestra, a project by Paul Wacrenier, and in the Bibendum ensemble. She collaborated with the storyteller Muriel Bloch in the musical novel Le Souffle des Marquises. For two years, Morgane has been passionate about improvised encounters and regularly organizes them in Paris, notably at the Petit Balcon. She has played with many talented musicians such as Magic Malik, Fred Briet, Sylvaine Hélary, Eve Risser, Simon Henocq, Aymeric Avice, Yann Joussein, Yoram Rosilio, Benjamin Sanz and many others. She is also co-founder and member of the recent and dynamic collective of improvising musicians 2035. In 2019, she joins Fred Maurin's new National Jazz Orchestra. In 2020, the saxophonist will participate in The Bridge - a transatlantic network for creative music with Jozef Dumoulin, Fanny Lasfargues, Damon Locks and Macie Stewart.

Théo Nguyen duc Long
Saxophonist

Théo Nguyen duc Long began studying the saxophone at the Ceyzériat association school. He then went through the CRD of Bourg en Bresse where he discovered jazz, the CRR of Lyon, the CRR of Paris, the Pôle supérieur of Boulogne Billancourt and finally the CNSMDP where he obtained his DNSPM in 2019. Throughout his studies, he has the chance to participate in many workshops and masterclasses of international musicians (Jacques Di Donato, Dave Liebman, Mark Turner, Craig Taborn, John Patitucci, Tim Berne ...) He joins in 2019 the orchestra of the ONJ youth. In Paris he is active in several groups like Nahima, Vol de nuit, and other ephemeral formations. He performs in cellars like Le Zorba or Le Café de Paris. He is currently part of the Orchestra 2035, Jean Machin and Ckraft.

Luca Ventimiglia
Vibraphonist, improviser and composer

Luca Ventimiglia is a vibraphonist, improviser and composer active on the improvised music scene in Paris.
He studied classical percussion at the National Conservatory Benedetto Marcello in Venice. In the field of classical and contemporary music, he has played as a percussionist with several orchestras and ensembles. He moved to Paris in 2014, and actively anchored himself on the French improvised music scene. Since 2017 he contributes to the organization of concerts in Paris (Le Zorba, Le Café de Paris). In 2018 he is co-founder of the Parisian collective 2035. He also participates in the upcoming Franco-American artist exchange program The Bridge with which he will tour in France and the United States with French (Simon Henocq, Erik Em) and Chicagoan (Julian Kirshner, Peter Maunu) musicians. Currently Luca is pursuing numerous projects on the Parisian scene such as Where is Mr. R ? (trio with Basile Naudet and Augustine Bette, two albums (2017 and 2020) released on 2035 records), Club Sieste (noise band, album released at Instants Chavirés, vinyl on Gaffer records and Coax records), Tu Préfères (with Thomas Zielinski and Benoît Joblot, album released on 2035 records), Tribalism3 (with Yann Joussein and Olivia Scemama, two albums released on Coax records, tour in Thailand, China, Taiwan and Japan), Fantasia nel Dessert (with Simon Henocq, concert Festival Sonifère, Festival Sons d'Hiver), Camoufleur (with Johan Saint, Louis Prado and Basile Naudet, album released on Planisphère records in 2020), Phanes (with Augustin Bette), l'Orchestre 2035, his prepared vibraphone solo and his electronic solo and will multiply the encounters Richard Comte, Thimothée Quost, Eve Risser, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Bertrand Denzler, Francesco Pastacaldi, Tom Malmendier

Alexandre du Closel
Pianist, composer and improviser

Alexandre du Closel is a pianist, composer and improviser.
After studying with Peter Giron, Rick Margitza, Franck Amsallem and Hélène Tysman, he turned to improvised music and invested himself in the technique of prepared piano. This has led to a number of collaborations in which experimental aesthetics prevail, such as the groups Strie, Dicht, the solo for piano frame and lithophone Astrophore, or the repetitive music quartet WHY PATTERNS? which won JazzMigration#6 for the year 2021. At the same time, he participates in the creation of the collective and label 2035, whose orchestra is in residence at the Dynamo des Banlieues Bleues during the 21/22 season. Active on the French improvised music scene, he has played with Toma Gouband, Jean Brice Godet, Philippe Lemoine, Morgane Carnet, Frederic Maurin, Timothée Quost, Rafaelle Rinaudo.