SHARP CLAWS CATS

Mathieu WERCHOWSKI: Violin and Viola
David CHIESA: Double bass

The duo of cats with accelerated claws was born in Geneva. It is also from the local press that the duo's name comes from a concert given in Cave 12. Lyric, always in sound, the music unfolds a long landscape, sometimes expressive, sometimes abstract. There is however a certain pleasure in playing the place, the music itself ...
This duo has performed at the Festival Fruits de Mhère, Meeting Festival de Tours and in many places in France and Europe, in the USA.
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OORT

Jean-Sébastien MARIAGE: guitar
David CHIESA: Double bass

After numerous collaborations within several groups (Nodal, Suck not your thumb ...) Jean Sébastien Mariage and David Chiesa meet to create a music of the intimate. Far from sound research on the instrument that both have practiced for a long time, this duo plays with surprising simplicity. It is the time, the space which are played, and not textures even if these are not totally rejected.
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NOISE POETRY

Didier LASSERRE, Mathias PONTEVIA: Drums
David CHIESA: Double bass

Noise Poetry is a fine example of a concrete attitude of improvisers musicians more concerned with building sound complexity collectively than letting a so-called free-bodied body language express itself. All three of them immerse us in the world of a Japanese garden (where the space between the stones is more important than the stones themselves), in the invention of an acoustic synthesizer, in a series of layered objects that act like a giant mobile.
- Jérôme Noetinger -
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SODA

Sophie AGNEL : Piano
David CHIESA : Double bass

Sophie Agnel is one of those artists with whom we like to provoke regular reunions, as the artistic universe of the pianist is vast and the field of her aesthetic research in constant flux. We find her today alongside double bass player David Chiesa. Both explore the extent of the possibilities of their instruments of wood and strings: rubs, touches, scrapes, caresses and blows ... The sound gesture draws the lines of an abstract landscape where the intellect quickly gives way to the poetic and sensitive. (Anne Montaron - France Musique)

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Le UN

Sophie AGNEL: piano • Pascal BATTUS: rotating surfaces • Claire BERGEREAULT: accordion and voice • Benjamin BONDONNEAU: clarinet • Etienne CAIRE: 16mm projectors • Christophe CARDOEN: light device • Patrick CHARBONNIER: trombone • David CHIESA: double bass • Michel DONEDA: saxophone • Simon FELL: double bass • Anna GAÏOTTI: voice and tap • Nina GARCIA: electric guitar • Bertrand GAUGUET: saxophone • Anouck GENTHON: violin • Benoit KILIAN: percussion • Joyce LAINÉ: 16mm projectors • Didier LASSERRE: drums • Soizic LEBRAT: cello • Lionel MARCHETTI: electronic • Michel MATHIEU: actions • Jérôme NOETINGER: electronic • Jean-Luc PETIT: double bass clarinet and sopranino • Christian PRUVOST: trumpet • Aude ROMARY: cello • Mathieu WERCHOWSKI: violin and viola

Le UN is an improvisation society. Each of us is engaged in artistic achievement as much as in the social, non-hierarchical organization of the whole. Le UN brings together 21 musicians, depending on the context, 2 filmmakers and 1 lighting artist, 1 performer.
It is the individual and his practice that are at the center of this orchestral experiment and not its dilution in the collective. It is important for us to preserve its singularity within a protean mass without obstructing collective space.
The UN improvises (Unity Nodale), invents play devices (Tense space, Mottes), works with the cinematographic image (Unkino).

SOLO

David CHIESA : double bass

A soundscape with very sharp outlines. Very good performance in the overall form: multiple twists and turns without gratuitousness or anecdotes, these Phonemes slide from the bow or the fingers carrying an energy, sometimes of rage contained in the service of a clear and intelligible musical word. This direct sound, this rejection of artifice (in spite of a compositional complexity, even if it is a question of work in real time) evokes the position of the big ones of the jazz, although, it should perhaps be remembered, we we are here at places of this idiom. Dino in R&C 67.
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PIDGIN

David CHIESA : double bass • Jean-Luc GUIONNET : saxophone alto

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GROUP4

Lionel MARCHETTI : electronics • David CHIESA : double bass • Didier LASSERRE : drums • Jean-Luc GUIONNET : saxophone alto

"If time was to be seized on the palm of each hand
if space, directions - the wind rose -
could alternately draw even larger space and directions
here is a musical proposal: a quartet
... games open to all winds, notice of strong storm or great calm ...
whatever the weather, we follow them, like a ship smashing sounds over the ocean - to these regions where the currents, the territories and even the intentions, from now on, are without name. "

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Non-exhaustive list of meetings with other musicians during concerts :

Aude Romary: cello, Arnaud Paquotte: electric bass, Richard Bokhobza: electric bass, Bhob Rainey: saxophone, Greg Kelly: trumpet, Louis Michel Marion: double bass, Thierry Madiot: trombone, Rodolphe Loubatière: drums, Frédéric Blondy: piano, Pierce Warnecke : electronic, Jean-Léon Pallandre: phonography, Christian Pruvost trumpet, Xavier Charles: clarinet, Martine Altenburger: cello, Michel Doneda: soprano saxophone, Marc Pichelin: analog synthesis, Alain Savouret: piano, Mathieu Werchowski: violin and viola, Mickael Radke : drums, Saga Yuki voice, Matsumoto Kenichi alto saxophone, Yamaguchi Koichi piano, Oshina Teruyuki guitar, Hideo Ikegami: double bass, Shintarou Takasugi: double bass, Naoto Yamagishi: drums and percussion, Shoji Hano: drums, Takuji Kawai: piano, toy piano, Shinjiro Yamaguchi: electronics, Moussa Dioum: Peul violin, Abbas Dialo: percussion and Peul flute, Anne-Julie Rollet: device electroacoustics, Clayton Thomas: double bass, Domenico Sciajno: computer, Jean Philippe Gross: analog synthesis, Jérôme Noetinger: electroacoustic device, Eddie Prévost: drums, Paul Lovens: drums, Camel Zekri: guitar, Didier Lasserre: drums, Géraldine Keller: voice, Isabelle Duthoit: clarinet and voice, Jacques Di Donato: clarinet and drums, Laurie Batista: voice, Tanguy Bernard: tuba, Eric Camara: double bass, Thomas Dubois: trumpet, Thomas Lachaize: saxophones, Juliette Lacroix: cello, Delphine Lafon: voice, Guillaume Laidain: analog synthesis, Bruno Laurent: double bass, Johann Loiseau: flutes, small percussions, Johann Mazé: drums, Mathias Pontévia: percussions, Kristof Ratier: bass clarinet, Jean-Marc Reilla: analog synthesis, electronics, Jean Rougier: double bass, Frédéric Roumagne: electric and video guitar, Yan Saboya: electric guitar, Claude Saubole: acoustic guitar, Julien Se llam: violin, Carole Rieussec, electro acoustic, Jean-Christophe Camps electroacoustic, John Tilbury: piano, Keith Rowe: guitar, Ute Volker: accordion, Lê Quan Ninh: percussion, Jack Wright: saxophones, Nakatani Tatsuya: percussion, Steve Robins: saxophones, Guillaume Blaise: percussion, Delphine Barbut: guitar, Philippe Debet: guitar, Pierre-Olivier Boulant: drums, David Lataillade: guitars, Philippe Besse violin, David Lataillade guitars, Emmanuel Larangé: oboe, Delphine Fraval voice, Vincent Geais: synthesizer analog Serge, Laurent Dailleau: analog and digital synthesis, Fabrice Charles: trombone, Agusti Fernandez, piano, John Edwards: double bass, Simon Fell: double bass, Peter Jacquemyn: double bass, Alexander Franguenheim: double bass, Ulrich Phillipp: double bass, Ron Anderson: guitar , Vic Rawlins: cello, Mike Bullock, Jane Rigler: flutes, Wade Mathews: flutes, bass clarinet and computer, Leonardo Pellega ta: photo, Felicie Bazelaire: cello, Deborah Walker: cello, Bertrand Denzler: tenor saxophone, Cyprien Busolini: viola, Fabrice Bernard: trombone and saxophones, Pascal Battus: rotating surfaces, Claire Bergerault: accordion and voice, Patrick Charbonnier: trombone, Anna Gaïotti: voice and tap, Nina Garcia: electric guitar, Bertrand Gauguet: saxophone, Anouck Genthon: violin, Benoit Kilian: percussion, Loic Lachaize: sound, Soizic Lebrat: cello, Lionel Marchetti: revox, Jean-Luc Petit: double bass clarinet , Dominique Répécaud: guitar, Fabrice Charles: trombone, Laurent Charles: saxophones, Natacha Muslera: voice, Vincent Geais: analog synthesis, Mathieu Chamagne: digital synthesis, Laurent Hoevenaers: cello, Richard Antez: percussions,
This list is not intended to be a catalog but rather to reflect the immense diversity of these practices. Sorry for those I forgot, I will add you without problem if you send me an email!