IMPROVISE
This “Improvising” meeting with musicologist Clément Cannone and musician and composer Isabelle Duthoit will provide an opportunity to explore a form of creation and production that invents and establishes its own way of operating in the very moment of the action.
Although improvisation has long been considered a major fact in the field of music, the individual and group implications of improvisation are also striking for the social construction effects they generate, concerning many other creation spaces and customs.
Clément Canonne | is a musicologist who specialises in contemporary musical improvisation practices. His approach combines ethnographic methods, experimental procedures and philosophical analyses that explore such subjects as joint coordination and action mechanisms in collective musical improvisation situations.
He is a researcher at the CNRS within IRCAM. He has published numerous articles in such journals as “La Revue de Musicologie”, “Cognition”, “Psychology of Music” and “Journal of New Music Research”. With Pierre Saint-Germier, he produced a French translation of Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music by American professor of philosophy Jerrold Levinson (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is also conducting a long-term study on the stringed instruments of improvisors.
Isabelle Duthoit | is a musician and composer. Her approach involves free improvisation (particularly singing and clarinet)—she is one of its most audacious representatives—but also includes new forms of composed music.
After receiving classical training and graduating from CNSMD Lyon, Isabelle Duthoit turned to creating contemporary music. She collaborates with the Atelier instrumental du XXe siècle, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Itinéraireensemble. She has developed an extremely singular improvised singing technique, linked to cries and prelingual sounds, in which the voice is mainly used for its instrumental value.
The many others with whom she has collaborated include Anne James Chaton, Jacques Demierre, Jacques Di Donato, Bertrand Gauguet, Keiji Haino, Franz Hautzinger, Daunik Lazro, Phil Minton and John Tilbury. She is a member of the groups Triolid with David Chiesa and Laurent Dailleau, Krizda with Gunda Gottschalk and Christine Wodrascka, and Rose and Stomach with Jacques Di Donato, Xavier Charles and Tim Hodgkinson. Since 2005, she has been playing with 4 Walls + 2 alongside Gail Brand, Luc Ex, Phil Minton, Mickaël Vatcher and Veryan Weston. She was the singer in the experimental rock group Fogo.
For her free improvisation work, she has earned international recognition and many prizes and awards. She actively participates in creating French and European festivals in the field of improvisation. She also composes music for theatre and dance, such as for Camille Mutel and Stéphane Olry.
