Biais

Matèu Baudoin / violin, vocals, feet
Basile Brémaud / violin, vocals, feet
Yann Gourdon / violin, vocals, feet

Biais explores the edges of trad ball dance music, investigating and questioning how sound, the vibration of a mass of air and a space, can mutate into the movements of a dancer. Harnessing the sound possibilities offered by instrumental amplification, musical experimentation is enhanced via different means, through percussive use of the feet and the resonance of the kickboard, connecting the physicality of the musicians and the dancers. To fuel their investigation, the musicians exploit the heritage and practice of dance music that has flourished in their territories, namely in the Massif Central and in Gascony.

Les Géantes

Ernest Bergez : samples, electronics
Yann Gourdon : samples, electronics

As Les Géantes, Ernest Bergez and Yann Gourdon come together at the intersection of dance music, the DJ set, musicircus and the plunderphonic, making musical worlds collide: weaving a sound continuum formed of a multitude of quotes, borrowings and pastiche, creating a danse in patchwork form, they make audible the perpetual repetition and mutation of popular music as it moves, dances and sings around familiar refrains.

In C

Basile Brémaud / violin
Yvan Etienne / EMS Synthi + pedals
Mathieu Baudoin / violin
Perrine Bourel / violin
Antoine Cognet / banjo
Jacques Puech / cabrette
Clément Gauthier / vocals, string tambourine
Yann Gourdon / hurdy-gurdy
Alexis Degrenier / hurdy-gurdy
Guilhem Lacroux / 12-string guitar
Pierre-Vincent Fortunier / Béchonnet bagpipes 11p
David Fauroux / sound engineer

Created in 1964, Terry Riley’s In C is one of the foundation works of minimal music. With a score composed of 53 motifs, In C is a pioneer of the radical use of the repetition process: limitless in potential, the piece has been played in many interpretations.
The version that La Nòvia collectif offers is centered around the instruments which typify its field of research in traditional music: hurdy-gurdy, cabrette, chabrette, Béchonnet bagpipes, violins, string tambourine and banjo, shedding a different light on the work of Terry Riley. This interpretation questions the formal and acoustic similarities between traditional and contemporary music, creating a richness of timbres and disorientating the listener in time and space.

Perrine Bourel : des montagnes

Perrine Bourel / fiddle

Perrine Bourel dives into the sound of the traditional fiddle that she has been playing for twenty years, and equally into the sounds of experimental and contemporary music more recently discovered. She approaches her fiddle as a medium of
Exploration, to travel beyond the field of music.

Compositions by Yann Gourdon and Guilhem Lacroux, traditional rigodons and aubades.

Flux

Yvan Etienne / hurdy-gurdy, electronics
Clément Gauthier / cabrette, string tambourine, vocals
Jacques Puech / cabrette, vocals
Basile Brémaud / violin
Yann Gourdon / hurdy-gurdy, drone box

By adopting a non-hierarchical approach to style, these composers have enabled a diffusion of repertoires which have a notable influence on the contemporary approach to traditional music. Despite the various formal and aesthetic exchanges, these compositions rarely appealed to the organology associated with traditional music and indeed the use of instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy, the bagpipes (chabrette, cabrette...) and the qualities of traditional singing and violin have not really been explored and used in such contemporary repertoires.
With these very singular sound registers and heading towards contemporary experimental musical practices, we in the FLUX project have as our object to study, re-interpret and invest in compositions from these contemporary repertoires using instruments generally reserved for the field of traditional music.

Le Verdouble

Yvan Etienne / hurdy-gurdy
Yann Gourdon / hurdy-gurdy

Yvan Etienne and Yann Gourdon question musical duration and the states of mind induced by length of sound. Neither composed nor improvised, governed only by process, their sound emerges only from the phenomena inherent in that process.

La Cleda

Basile Brémaud / violin, vocals
Matèu Baudoin / violin, string tambourine, pandero, vocals
Yann Gourdon / hurdy-gurdy
Nicolas Rouzier / cabrette, vocals 

La Cleda is an old chestnut dryer where chestnuts were formerly smoked and preserved. Now disused, this building has changed purpose: musicians gathering from Béarn, Auvergne, Limousin and the Cévennes have used it as a refuge, a shelter, a place to develop a musical discourse, serving as a rallying point to unite them in expression. Beyond the formal identities and particularities which shape each of these musical traditions, it is the relationship forged between musicians and music that forms the basis of this musical community, committed to expressing all the poetic and sound intensity present in traditional musical material.

Duo Gourdon/Mauchand

Stéphane Mauchand / bagpipes
Yann Gourdon / hurdy-gurdy