Sophie Agnel has been playing piano for as long as she can remember, improvising and sculpting material for some twenty years, combining encounters with a large number of international musicians with long-term work with others. She has played with Jérôme Nœtinger, Daunik Lazro, eRikm, Ikue Mori, Phil Minton, John Butcher, Catherine Jauniaux and many others. She has performed at festivals such as Banlieues Bleues, Musique Action in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, Parthenay, Grenoble, Mulhouse, in Lebanon, Poland, Germany, Quebec...
If you want to immerse yourself in Sophie Agnel's world of sound, you have to abandon a few preconceptions about what it means to "play the piano" and accept that the keyboard is only part of the picture. It's not that complicated, and once you've made the effort, the world that opens up is astonishing. The rubbing of strings, the resonances, the brushing of dampers, evoke a musical landscape where time follows a very singular course and space is filled with unheard-of sounds.
Sophie Agnel was a member of the ONJ and in recent years has also been heard alongside Steve Noble, John Edwards, Andrea Neumann, Bertrand Gauguet, Thurston Moore, Arnaud Rivière, Joke Lanz...

Born in 1972, Angelica Castello studied music in her native Mexico City before continuing her studies in Europe. Now based in Vienna, Austria, she composes and improvises using cassettes, radios, electronics and a double-bass paetzold flute. Increasingly interested in electroacoustic composition and capturing natural phenomena, her latest composition, "Sonic blue", finds her in the far north, listening to ice and whales.
Her music is published on labels such as Mosz, Instertellar Records, Orlando Records, Mikroton Recordings, Monotype Records... And she works or has worked with many composers: Hilda Paredes, Daniel de la Cuesta, Katharina Klement, Burkhard Stangl, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong...

Isabelle Duthoit was born in 1970 and trained as a classical musician. She played contemporary music with various ensembles, including the Atelier Instrumental du XX° siècle directed by Gilbert Amy, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the ensemble L'Itinéraire, and met a number of composers (G. Aperghis, K. Huber, G. Amy, K. Toeplitz, D. D'Adamo, V. Globokar, G. Crumb, P. Dussapin...). Then she found her preferred terrain in the world of free improvisation. In 1997, she joined David Chiesa and Laurent Dailleau in triolid, and with Xavier Charles, Jacques Di Donato and Tim Hodgkinson formed a quartet for clarinets and other instruments, Rose and stomach. Since 2005, she has been playing with 4 walls + 2 (Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Mickaël Vatcher, Luc Ex, Gail Brand).
She has developed a singular and highly personal singing technique on her own; a relationship with primitive sounds and cries, sounds before language, handling very extreme tessitura and dynamics. Her training as an instrumentalist has led her to use the voice in an instrumental rather than a lyrical way, seeking games and sonorities far removed from the usual vocal practice.