Sophie Agnel
Pianist
Sophie Agnel has been playing the piano since she was a child, improvising and sculpting the material for some twenty years, combining encounters with a large number of international musicians with long-term work with others. She has performed alongside 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, Lebanon, Poland, Germany, Quebec, and more.
If you want to immerse yourself in Sophie Agnel's sound universe, you have to abandon some preconceptions about what it means to "play the piano" and accept that the keyboard is only the tip of the iceberg. It's not that complicated, and once you've made that small effort, the world that opens up is astounding. The rubbing of strings, the resonances, the light touches of the dampers evoke a musical landscape where time follows a very singular course and where space is filled with unheard-of sounds.
Sophie Agnel was a member of the ONJ and in recent years has also performed alongside Steve Noble, John Edwards, Andrea Neumann, Bertrand Gauguet, Thurston Moore, Arnaud Rivière, Joke Lanz, and others.

Angelica Castello
Composer, sound artist
Born in 1972, Angelica Castello studied music in Mexico City, her hometown, before continuing her studies in Europe. Now based in Vienna, Austria, she composes and improvises using cassettes, radios, electronics, and a contrabass Paetzold flute. With a growing interest in electroacoustic composition and the recording of natural phenomena, she traveled to the far north for her latest composition, "Sonic Blue," to listen to the ice and the whales.
Her music is released on labels such as Mosz, Instertellar Records, Orlando Records, Mikroton Recordings, Monotype Records, and she works or has worked with a number of composers, including Hilda Paredes, Daniel de la Cuesta, Katharina Klement, Burkhard Stangl, and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong.

Isabelle Duthoit
Clarinetist
Born in 1970 and classically trained, Isabelle Duthoit turned her attention to contemporary music at a very early age. She played contemporary music while working with various ensembles such as the Atelier Instrumental du XX° siècle directed by Gilbert Amy, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and then the ensemble L'Itinéraire, meeting many composers (G. Aperghis, K. Huber, G. Amy, K. Toeplitz, D. D'Adamo, V. Globokar, G. Crumb, P. Dussapin, and others). She then found her niche in the world of free improvisation. In 1997, she joined forces with David Chiesa and Laurent Dailleau in triolid and created Rose and stomach, a quartet of clarinets and other instruments, with Xavier Charles, Jacques Di Donato, and Tim Hodgkinson. Since 2005, she has been playing with 4 walls + 2 (Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Mickaël Vatcher, Luc Ex, Gail Brand).
She has developed a unique and highly personal singing technique, drawing on primitive sounds and cries, sounds that predate language, and employing an extremely wide range and dynamics. Her training as an instrumentalist has led her to use her voice more as an instrument than for lyrical singing, seeking out sounds and effects that lie far outside the bounds of conventional vocal practice.