Sarah Kenchington (Scotland)
sound artist

100% unclassifiable, Sarah Kenchington is an artist-maker, composer and performer who is interested in abandoned objects and obviously fights against obsolescence ... programmed or not! Between kinetic art and sound art, all her instruments and sculptures are made with her own hands from recycled objects: bicycle wheel, typewriter, air chamber, etc. Conceived almost as anti-automats, his objects remain inert without the humans who activate them. Humanizing the machine and/or mechanizing the human: Sarah Kenchington takes care of the missing link! We can place her work in the lineage of these artists of the machines, from Leonard de Vinci to Jean Tinguely by way of Frederic Le Junter or Pierre Bastien. The powers in question in her works are on the scale of nature and, in her proposals, Sarah Kenchington brings into play energies such as the human force, the movement of the ocean or the air flow of a giant bellows. There is nothing old-fashioned about this approach: if her installations could have worked before the invention of electricity... they can also still be played when electricity is lacking!

Jean-Philippe Gross (France)
sound artist

At the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music, Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena. He has worked for the theater with Léa Drouet, Gaël Leveugle and regularly for dance with Marie Cambois. He also composed the piece "Cutting Lines" for the Dedalus ensemble, and "Sécante" for the Phonoscopie project of Thierry Madiot and Yannick Miossec (supported by Sonic Protest). In concert, he collaborates with John Hegre (in duo with Black Packers and in quartet with Greg Pope and Xavier Quérel), Clare Cooper (Nevers), Jean-Luc Guionnet (Angle), Jérôme Noetinger, Axel Dörner and as this list of partners expresses so well, his music can be as much lacey sounding as the skidding of a tank on wet ground. Never locked into any systematism, Jean-Philippe Gross allows himself the extremes to take advantage of a wide field of possibilities and pays particular attention to the timbre, the grain and the quality of the sound, even rough. On a sound system, on an amp, or on the computer... it's nice ! Gotfertami !