Ensemble Ictus
Instrumental ensemble

Ictus is a contemporary music ensemble from Brussels, which has been cohabiting since 1994 with the dance school P.A.R.T.S and the company Rosas (directed by Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker), with whom it has already staged fourteen productions, from Amor Constante to Vortex Temporum. The ensemble has also worked with other choreographers: Wim Vandekeybus, Maud Le Pladec, Eleanor Bauer, Fumiyo Ikeda. Ictus is a fixed collective of about twenty co-opted musicians (including the conductor Georges-Elie Octors). From the outset, Ictus has gambled on the irreversible mutation of ensembles towards the mixed status of an electric orchestra, for example by hiring a regular sound engineer as an instrumentalist. Each year, Ictus builds a season in Brussels, in partnership with the Kaaitheater and Bozar. This season allows us to experiment with new programs for a cultivated but non-specialized audience, which is a fan of theater, dance and music. Since 2004, the ensemble has also been in residence at the Opéra de Lille. Ictus works on the question of formats and listening devices: very short or very long concerts, hidden programs (the Blind Dates in Ghent), commented concerts, concert-festivals where the public circulates between the podiums (the famous Liquid Rooms presented throughout Europe). Finally, Ictus runs a course of study: an Advanced Master's degree dedicated to the interpretation of modern music in collaboration with the Ghent School of Arts.

Pierre-Yves Macé
Composer

Pierre-Yves Macé's music is situated at the crossroads between contemporary writing, electroacoustic creation, sound art and a certain rock sensibility. An important part of his work is based on the notions of recycling, appropriation or citation. Begun in 2010, the in-progress cycle Song Recycle for piano and loudspeaker takes and transforms a selection of amateur vocal performances collected on YouTube. His music is published on the Tzadik, Sub Rosa, Brocoli labels. It has been performed by the ensembles Cairn, l'Instant Donné, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, les Cris de Paris, the collective 0 ("zero"). He collaborates with artists Hippolyte Hentgen, writers Mathieu Larnaudie, Philippe Vasset, Pierre Senges, Julien d'Abrigeon, composes music for the shows of Sylvain Creuzevault, Christophe Fiat, Joris Lacoste, Anne Collod, Fabrice Ramalingom. In 2014, he was awarded the Hors les murs residency (Institut Français) for the project Contreflux. Defended in 2009 at the University of Paris 8, his doctorate in musicology was published by Presses du réel in 2012 under the title Musique et document sonore.

Sébastien Roux
Composer

Sébastien Roux composes experimental music that he gives to hear in the form of records, listening sessions, installations or sound routes, radio works. He works around the questions of listening, sound space and composition from formal constraints. Since 2011, he has been developing an approach based on the principle of sound translation, which consists in using a pre-existing work (visual, musical, literary) as a score for a new sound piece. He works with the Dedalus and GEX ensembles. In parallel, Sébastien Roux regularly collaborates with artists from different disciplines. He works with the author Célia Houdart and the scenographer Olivier Vadrot on transdisciplinary and in situ projects. He works with the American choreographer DD Dorvillier on the dance-music relationship. He has received commissions and residencies from EMPAC, Deutschlandradio Kultur, WDR, ZKM, RSR, GRM, Scène Nationale de Montbéliard, La Muse en Circuit, CESARE, and GMEM. He was laureate of the Villa Médicis hors-les-murs (USA, 2012) and of the radio art competition of La Muse en Circuit. He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2015-2016).

Joris Lacoste
Director

Joris Lacoste has been writing for theater and radio since 1996 and has been directing his own performances and shows since 2003: 9 lyriques for actress and snare drum in 2005, Purgatoire in 2007, Le vrai spectacle in 2011. In 2004, he founded the collective research project W. He was an associate author at the Théâtre de la Colline in 2006-2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was co-director of the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers. In 2007, he founded the collective Encyclopédie de la parole, within the framework of which were created the shows Parlement (2009), Suite n°1 (2013), Suite n°2 (2015), Suite n°3 (2017), Suite n°4 (2020), blablabla (2017) and Jukebox (2019).
The pieces in the Encyclopedia of Speech have been shown worldwide and were the subject of a Portrait at the Festival d'Automne in Paris in 2020.
Joris Lacoste has also created numerous performances and participated in several exhibitions in museums and art centers. He has also translated three plays by Shakespeare for the director Gwénaël Morin.