Angle is an improvising duo of Jean-Luc Guionnet, alto saxophonist, and electroacoustic composer and Jean-Philippe Gross, who performs using a custom-built acoustic feedback system.
Jean-Philippe Gross : electroacoustic devices
Jean-Luc Guionnet : saxophone
With ‘ANGLE’, we put our trust in the possible rejuvenation of the relationship binding electrical and acoustic instruments and their relationship to a transmission system. There is a part of immeasurable between the two, and this is something that we not only accept, but we want to deepen this divide to see what stays before starting off from what is left, which will indicate the direction we need to take, whether it be a cut, interaction, non-reaction, exaggerated guards, or pause at the worse possible moment. The experience is one to endlessly recommence. What is left should endlessly be re-evaluated. We depend on the situation as much as we can, as we are thus working on this dependency. When the research is made to music, when protocols are awakened by a situation, when relationships are organised according to that which is supposed to muddle them, a hairy forest of hertz that sometimes resembles the most arid of deserts, a grey over grey that encompasses as many rainbows as we want… the opposite ?
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Jean-Philippe Gross
Composer and improviser, Jean-Philippe Gross is a self-taught musician. In concert, he plays with a dedicated feedback system (no input mixing). In the studio, he continues his research with a “Serge modular system”.
At the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music, Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena. Never locked into any kind of systematism, he allows himself extremes to take advantage of a wide range of possibilities, and pays particular attention to timbre, grain and sound quality, even when rough.
He has composed music for dance and performance, as well as for contemporary ensembles such as Ensemble Dedalus. In concert, he collaborates with Marc Baron, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Clare Cooper (Nevers), Stéphane Garin… He works for dance with the choreographer Camille Mutel.
In 2019, he created the record label Eich.
Jean-Luc Guionnet
“My musical work subdivides itself into as many ways as occasions arise for me to think and act with sound and forms. Those occasions have always to do with a strong meeting with an outside element : an instrument (saxophone/organ), a theoretical idea (what is “rumour”?), and mainly a collaborating friend (Lotus Edde Khouri, Éric La Casa, Thomas Bonvalet, Seijiro Murayama) … or the long term adventure of a team (Hubbub, Ames Room, Jupiter Terminus …). There then follows a collection of themes which, in turn, influence the evolution of the musical work and define the direction of meetings to come: the thickness of the air, the pidgin, the musical instrument considered as affective automaton, sound as a signature of space, signature of objects, signature of what it is not… The coming emotion is made out of all these strata and the sliding of one over the other during the act of listening. When music is giving time.”
