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Documenting the expansive collective practice of the French improvising ensemble Le UN across three CDs recorded between 2021 and 2022, this large-scale set brings together 25 performers working in shifting formations through free improv unconstrained by score or direction, exploring acoustics, public spaces, environmental interaction, and richly textural electro-acoustic interplay.
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Sophie Agnel-piano
Pascal Battus-rotating surfaces
Claire Bergerault-accordion, voice
Benjamin Bondonneau-clarinet
Christophe Cardoen-light apparatus
Patrick Charbonnier-trombone
David Chiesa-double bass
Michel Doneda-soprano saxophone
Camille Emaille-percussion
Nina Garcia-electric guitar
Amanda Gardone-double bass
Bertrand Gauguet-alto saxophone
Anouck Genthon-violin
Rozemarie Heggen-double bass
Benoit Kilian-percussion
Soizic Lebrat-cello
Lionel Marchetti-electronics
Michel Mathie-actions
Natacha Muslera-voice
Jerome Noetinger-electronics
Jean-Luc Petit-bass clarinet, sopranino saxophone
Christian Pruvost-trumpet
Dominique Regef-hurdy gurdy
Aude Romary-cello
Mathieu Werchowski-violin, viola
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Includes a 20-page 18cm x 12 cm color book with images, liner notes and essays in French and English.
Label: UnRec
Catalog ID: 253
Squidco Product Code: 37374
Format: 3 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: France
Packaging: DVD size box cardboard gatefold 8 panels w/booklet
CD 1 recorded in Gradignan, France, on July 29th, 2021, by POB.
CD 2 recorded in Le Havre, France, on May 12th, 2022, by Emmanuel Lalande.
CD 3, track 1 recorded at Cluny, France, on November 6th, 2022, by Alban Guillemot.
CD3, track 2 recorded at Cluny, France, on November 6th, 2022, by Jerome Noetinger.
CD 3, track 3 recorded at Bordeaux, France, on October 21st, 2022, by Lionel Marchetti.
"3 CDs providing an overview of Le UN's work through improvisation in large ensembles (CD1 and 2) in different acoustics, improvisation in small and medium-sized ensembles (PME), and outdoor performances in public spaces (brigade d'intervention legere).
Le UN was started in 2012 at the initiative of David Chiesa. In 2019, the team was renewed to concentrate solely on what is known as free or non-idiomatic improvisation. Key principles being: no recourse to any sort of score or direction, and improvisation considered not as a style or genre but rather as an attitude to music making.
Improvisation also poses questions about the ephemeral and impermanence: the music leaves traces, and not proof. There are 25 of us, including a light artist and a performer. We play on different stages in different venues or theatres, and we also adapt to exhibition spaces, and we sometimes even invent "devices" that bring improvisation to the fore. We are increasingly attracted to playing with ideas beyond that of the traditional stage, to where the ensemble can be conceived as an ecosystem, taking as starting points ethical notions (the links between us, our rapport with the world and the environment, our choices of self-organisation...) and aesthetics (accepting or taking responsibility for the contradictions in our own practices, interrogating improvisation in all its components, and questioning the practice of the frontality of performance...).
We venture into contexts that throw us, like playing on the street, on a river, in caves, in acousmatic situations with speaker projections, etc. We confront our sounds, our ephemeral discourses with all manner of surveying. Without quite knowing where we are going, we think that walking, breathing, feeling, looking, also speaks to a place that is rightly musical."-unrec
Includes a 20-page 18cm x 12 cm color book with images, liner notes and essays in French and English.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Sophie Agnel "If it's in Paris that Sophie Agnel was born in 1964, it is towards other sounding islands in the heart of a reinvented temporality that she dwells today, at the stern of a grand piano, an instrument that she turns into a real living & vibrating organism. Classically trained, escaped from jazz (drawn away by the too strict treatment of harmony), Sophie Agnel boards the piano from every sonic angle this musical vessel can offer : keys, strings & board are simultaneously apprehended, in a mixed procedure (as we say of painting techniques) that would be understated if it was reduced to the cagian definition of the prepared piano. Considering the instrument - that she extends with several accessories, paper cups, balls or strings - as a poetic supplier of anamorphic textures, the musician takes it to be an equal match to the wider diversity of musical systems, whatever the craft they where conceived in (from physiological to electro-acoustic) ... We would then no longer be surprised to notice her understandings with Michel Doneda and to find her to the side of the wet saxophone of Alessandro Bosetti, of the acoustified electric guitar of Olivier Benoit, of the voices of Catherine Jauniaux and Phil Minton, or the keyboard of Christine Wodraska... The same seal of esthetic evidence marks all of her musical companionships, with this same taste, beyond the narrative, for the delicate sonic quests and blossoming of dimensions to which the auditor takes part through an active listening : in the heart of Jean Pallandre's phonographic worlds, of Jerôme Noetinger & Lionel Marchetti's small scale cinema, John Butcher or Axel Dörner's crimpy tissues, by the lovely machines of Erik M or Ikue Mori, the harmonico-stratospheric rustling of Stéphane Rives... The originality of the research conducted by Sophie Agnel today leads her to develop, in solo or with significantly chosen companions, a most refined and highly poetic approach to sound that makes each of her concerts a moving construction filled with chiseled musical gestures, a soft and sumptuous irradiation."-Guillaume Tarche ^ Hide Bio for Sophie Agnel • Show Bio for Pascal Battus "Sound artist, improviser, composer Pascal Battus develops a practice of sound more attentive to the sound gesture, the listening and the situation which determines them than to a defined instrument: the pickup of guitar (guitar pickup without guitar) , rotating surfaces, the guitar "environnée" (electric guitar on table + micro contact + various objects + electronics), percussion (objects amplified or not), ... His work is regularly broadcast on international airwaves (France Musique, Resonance FM, ...) He has played in Europe, United States of America, Canada, Asia, Middle East, Australia, ... solo or more frequently with other musicians. he often works with dancers, visual artists (video, light, sculpture, ...). He creates Graphones (sound drawings) and co-invents Massages Sonores. His records are published by Potlatch, Corpus Hermeticum, Amor Fati, Another Stamp, Cathnor, Organized Music From Thessaloniki, Herbal International ..." ^ Hide Bio for Pascal Battus • Show Bio for Claire Bergerault French singer, accordionist, composer and conductor who works in improvised, experimental and contemporary music. She performs with voice and/or accordion internationally, collaborates with many improvisers (e.g., Jean-Luc Guionnet) and founded the company Hors Laps in 2011, exploring the voice/accordion in relation to sound and space. ^ Hide Bio for Claire Bergerault • Show Bio for Benjamin Bondonneau Benjamin Bondonneau is a French artist involved with Jazz, Spoken Word, Classical and Electronic music. He was born in 1975 in Sarlat. He obtained a DNAP and DNSEP from the Fine Arts of Bordeaux where he attended from 1993 to 1998. He also is active as a painter, and teaches visual arts and musical improvisation to different audiences: amateurs, professionals, schools, music schools, conservatories. He is a member of Quatuor Cassini. ^ Hide Bio for Benjamin Bondonneau • Show Bio for Christophe Cardoen A self-taught visual and installation artist working with light, movement and sound. His practice uses electromechanical devices, shutters or reflective surfaces to provoke variations of rhythm, scansions of bright light in deep darkness, and to test our perception of time and space. ^ Hide Bio for Christophe Cardoen • Show Bio for Patrick Charbonnier A French trombonist active in free jazz, heavy rock, improvised music and traditional music. He performs in several collectives and has developed his own creative structure called "pépète lumière". ^ Hide Bio for Patrick Charbonnier • Show Bio for David Chiesa With particular focus on improvisation since 1997, David explores the relation with other artistic practices such as dance (with Fine Kwiatkowski, Valérie Métivier, Véronique Albert, Yukiko Nakamura), poetry (with Ly Thanh Tiên) or experimental films ( with Xavier Quérel, Christophe Auger, Etienne Caire, Gaêlle Rouard)... Due to his interest in reality as the subject-matter for play, he met a group of artists by the name of Ouie/Dire (Marc Pichelin, Jean Pallandre, Laurent Sassi, Xavier Charles, Isabelle Duthoit, Kristoff Guez) with whom he developed links between "musical" improvisation and phonography. As an improviser, he has participated in numerous meetings and developed several long-term collaboration with musicians such as Jean Luc Guionnet, Frédéric Blondy, Michel Doneda, Isabelle Duthoit... He has played in Europe, the United States, Lebanon, Africa, Estonia, Japan... He is a co-founding member of Le Clou, a Dordogne-based association which seeks to review and disseminate improvisation practices." ^ Hide Bio for David Chiesa • Show Bio for Michel Doneda "Michel Doneda (F) soprano saxophone, born in 1954, comes from the French South-West. He is a self-taught musician. In 1980 he founded in Toulouse a reed trio: HIC ET NUNC, a group that toured quite a lot in France, playing mostly improvised music. At the same time he founded with musicians, dancers and actors a place called IREA (Institute for research and exchange between arts of improvisation). In the following years, he participated in music projects with other artists and he became a regular guest of the Chantenay-Villedieu festival. Meeting other artists he developed a very personal approach with his music and his instrument in improvised music. During this period he played with Europeans musicians: Fred Van Hove, Phil Wachsmann, Max Eastley, Steve Beresford and Americans: John Zorn, Eliott Sharp, Elvin Jones In 1985 he made his first record under his own name: TERRA (Nato record). At the same time he started playing regurlarly with Lê Quan Ninh, Daunik Lazro, Benat Achiary, Martine Altenburger, Barre Phillips, Paul Rogers, Tetsu Saitoh, Kazue Sawai. More recently he developed his work with Keith Rowe, Gunter Muller, Bhob Rainey, Giuseppe Ielasi and dancers as Masaki Iwana, Yukiko Nakamura, Valérie Métivier and poets, actors. Since then, he has been very involved in the international improvised music scene, toured in Africa, Japan, Asia, USA, Canada, South America, Russia and with a lot of improvisers in Europe. In 1992 he founded in Toulouse with musicians, actors, poets, dancers the association: La Flibuste. As of today he recorded almost 50 records for European, Americans and Japanese labels." ^ Hide Bio for Michel Doneda • Show Bio for Camille Emaille "Camille Emaille is a French percussionist born in 1993 in Nice. She is studying at the Musik-Akademie of Basel (Switzerland) with Christian Dierstein on contemporary music and with Fred Frith on free improvisation. She considers music a part of everything, part of everyday life. That's why she began to improvise, to feel music more as a flux, as something which is already here, something that we (the musician and the audience) just jump into... She works with many artists from varying fields, such as video, muppet theatre, shadow theater with the show Divines Bovines and plays in the musical projects Oxke Fixu (duo with clarinet), Defibrillator (electronic, e-trombone, perc.) and Ratax (d-b., cl., perc.). She used to organize and play in " wild " events, happenings that took place in unusual locations such as closed tunnels, abandoned hospitals, highway bridges, old synagogues (festival Myosotis); events where people go without any knowledge of what will transpire... She worked during workshops and master classes with Lee Quan Ninh, John Butcher, Benat Achiary, Roscoe Mitchel, Gunter Baby Sommer et Zina Parkins. She played with Fred Frith, Fritz Hauser and William Winant among others. In fond of persian music, she studies tombak with Pedram Khavarzamini and tabla with Sankar Chowdhury as well as traditionnal music from midle est. With davul/tapan (turkish or bulgarian instrument) in Duna Orkestar (balkanic brass band) or tombak, daf and req with Koâni (trio with hurdy gurdy, harmonica and percussions) she played concerts in France, Switzerland, Germany and Turkey." ^ Hide Bio for Camille Emaille • Show Bio for Nina Garcia French electric-guitar improviser and composer active since ~2015, mixing noise and guitar, and member of Le UN since 2019. Her approach uses minimal gear and extreme zoom-in on sound details (e.g., mic'ing one-inch zones on the guitar) and she also teaches experimental music. ^ Hide Bio for Nina Garcia • Show Bio for Amanda Gardone French double bassist/improviser whose practice spans free improvisation and musics at the border of jazz, tradition and contemporary creation. She has been active in ensembles like Grand Chahut Collectif and Le UN and her playing emphasises body, interiority, rhythm and timbre. ^ Hide Bio for Amanda Gardone • Show Bio for Bertrand Gauguet "Bertrand Gauguet is a musician trudging through a practice without hierarchy involving sound and music: as an improvising saxophonist, electronic music composer and as a sounds collector. He plays since the early 2000s the alto saxophone in contexts of solo and group improvisation. His approach takes part in research on the technical areas of the instrument by which precise exploration of a sound language consists of materials produced by the breath, multiphonics and microphony. Collaborations with John Tilbury, Robin Hayward, Franz Hautzinger, Xavier Charles, Sophie Agnel, Pascal Battus, Eric La Casa, Michel Doneda, Insub Meta Orchestra, Seijiro Murayama Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, John Butcher, Axel Dörner, Isabelle Duthoit... Many festivals about new and experimental music (Europe, USA, Japan ...). As an electronic music composer, he composes original music and original soundtracks with dance, movies and radio broadcast. He produced the LP The Torn Map in 2013. In 2011, he was a resident of the villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. He studied the shakuhachi while learning to Honkyoku directory with Mr Yoshio Kurahashi. Since 2004, he taught at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in the Sonic research program he co-founded in 2007. He leads the generative improvisation workshop at CFMI in Sélestat since 2012 and conducted educational workshops at the Cité de la Musique in Paris from 2002 to 2012." ^ Hide Bio for Bertrand Gauguet • Show Bio for Anouck Genthon "Anouck Genthon is a French violinist and ethnomusicologist involved in the improvised music scene in an approach particularly sensitive to sound. Enriched by her double stance as musician and researcher, she guides her ear by improvised gestures through the surrounding sound-environment." ^ Hide Bio for Anouck Genthon • Show Bio for Rozemarie Heggen Dutch double bassist/composer specialising in contemporary music and free improvisation. She studied at conservatories in Maastricht, Amsterdam and The Hague, has played with ensembles including The Ex and is a member of Le UN. ^ Hide Bio for Rozemarie Heggen • Show Bio for Benoit Kilian "Benoit Kilian, plays the drums from a concert in the west of La Grosne, with the late Jacky Barbier.... who did not want his shit (set of percussion biggest rotten case of the time) on his small scene !! Thanks Jacky! The sound, the sound matter never ceases to attract it, and thus improvisation imposes itself as the evidence of its practice. And that's why, the idea to electrify a BERIMBAU, then to make one boxwood..... it will be BrmB, played in GHOTUL, and sometimes solo. No more codes, no definite place, no accompanist, no soloist, no leader, no performer, just fraternal Utopia and spirit. It finds itself fully in the creation and the life of the collective GEX, it is good for the new experiences! He collaborates with Laborintus, creates sustainable unions, plays with Jean-Luc Petit, Jérôme Noetinger, Benjamin Duboc, Jean Marc Foussat (Red Hammer...) rides NÜK, NÜK ELEKTRIK, KOD B, and embarks on an ambitious project and exciting around HDThoreau: LAND SURVEYOR. More recently, the solo, on a bass drum of 36 ": GCH36 " ^ Hide Bio for Benoit Kilian • Show Bio for Soizic Lebrat Born 1976 in Lyon and now based in Nantes, she is a classically-trained cellist (with multiple conservatory prizes) and holds a doctorate in cultural history of music. She develops work as improviser, composer and researcher-exploring sound, bow friction, installations and electroacoustic performance. ^ Hide Bio for Soizic Lebrat • Show Bio for Lionel Marchetti "Lionel Marchetti is a composer of concrete music. First self-taught, he then explores the repertoire of concrete music, as acousmatic art, with the composer Xavier Garcia 1 from 1989 at COREAM (Collective for electroacoustic research and musical action) in Fontaine ( Isère ). He then composed in the studios of the Musical Research Group in Paris, of the Living Music Group of Lyon, of La Muse en circuit in Alfortville, of Césaré in Reims, of Gmem inNational center for musical creation in Marseille, at the training center for intervening musicians (CFMI) in Lyon and in his personal studio. At the same time, Lionel Marchetti pursues a work of poetic writing 2, 3, as well as a theoretical approach to concrete music and the art of the loudspeaker, as a practicing artist of the genre. His book La musique concrète by Michel Chion 4 remains the most noticed - as well as his essay Speaker, voice and mirror... - technical essay in the form of a letter 5. Its catalog is currently rich with more than a hundred concrete works. Since 1990, he has been a lecturer in the art of concrete music and electroacoustic techniques at CFMI Lyon at the University of Lyon 2 (see BNF authority notice)." ^ Hide Bio for Lionel Marchetti • Show Bio for Natacha Muslera A French vocalist, composer and sound-artist who treats the voice as an instrument, an object of research and a healing tool. Early training in Paris and Bombay, active in collectives and experimental contexts; founded the mixed sighted/visually-impaired choir "Chœur tac-til". ^ Hide Bio for Natacha Muslera • Show Bio for Jerome Noetinger "Born April 1966, in Marseille, Jérôme Noetinger discovered experimental music under the influence of the Déficit Des Années Antérieures in Caen. Composer/improviser/sound artist working with electroacoustic devices. Composing sometimes musique concrete in the studio, and performing improvised music using electroacoustic devices such as: the reel to reel tape recorder Revox A77 and magnetic tape, analogue synthesisers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various electronic household objects and home-made electronica. Performing both solo and in ensembles, and collaborating often, and touring extensively internationally. Director of Metamkine, non-profit organisation dedicated to the distribution of improvised and electroacoustic music, which operates with an on-line mail order catalogue. Member of editorial committee of quarterly journal of contemporary sound, poetry and performance, Revue & Corrigée since 1987 Studied electronic music under the direction of Xavier Garcia from 1986 -1988 at COREAM in Fontaine. Organises studio workshops and conferences around such subjects as: musique concrete, improvisation, audiovisual experiments, questions of distribution and production. Active in the international music network since 1984 working with music, dance, films and painting Member of 102 rue d'Alembert, programming coordinator of exhibitions, concerts and experimental cinema from 1989 -1998 [bio continues...]" ^ Hide Bio for Jerome Noetinger • Show Bio for Jean-Luc Petit "Jean-Luc Petit Saxophones sopranino, alto and baritone, clarinet double bass Born on 22 November 1954 Alongside his studies at the School of Art in Angoulême, he began learning saxophones and clarinets in a self-taught way. His decisive encounters with first the composer Etienne Rolin and later Kent Carter reinforces him in the idea of becoming a musician. He collaborated for a long time with Etienne Rolin and founded the Trio EVER with him and participated in his many other projects. He meets composer and improviser François Rossé , plays quartet with Kent Carter and meets Kent Carter , musicians like Olivier Johnson , Jean-Jacques Avenel , Takashi Kako , Carlos Zingaro , Glenn Ferris ... He composes music for the theater and participates with the actor and poet Daniel Crumb in several shows "The small studies of self" , "Love is a dog of hell" on poems of Charles Bukowski , ... From the beginning improvisation is at the center of his practice and his preoccupations. He performed solo and formed several duets with Benjamin Duboc , Mathias Pontévia , Didier Lasserre , pianist Didier Fréboeuf , trombonist Christiane Bopp , founded with Fabrice Favriou and Adrien Monteiro "Rossignol Genocide", participated in the Orchestra "Le Lobe" Directed by Claire Bergerault , has multiplied the recontres with musicians such as Eric Brochard , Louis-Michel Marion , Claude Parle , Daunik Lazro , Jean-Marc Foussat , Joel Grip , Makoto Sato , Jean-Luc Cappozzo -Brice Godet , etc ... "I believe that music is formed in time and finds its fulfillment. Programming, defining, schematizing, improvising are the different and not contradictory ways of accompanying the growth of an organism that, like every living thing, is born, grows , Becomes individualized and extinct.The necessity of the ephemeral is the credibility of the form: I do not know the aesthetics of the piece globally, but only the form of a fragment which reproduces constantly as it transforms itself. " Franco Donatoni" ^ Hide Bio for Jean-Luc Petit • Show Bio for Christian Pruvost ^ Hide Bio for Christian Pruvost • Show Bio for Dominique Regef "Dominique Regef (France) is a musician. Originally violin-player, Dominique Regef learned himself to play medieval instruments like the hurdy-gurdy and the israj, instruments that reach back into time, heavy with traditions. He studied the (oriental) musical origins of troubadours and is interested in all kinds of ethnic music. His research is expressed fully in solo concerts, where the emotional force of thousand-year-old instruments are combined with electroacoustics technologies of today. Dominique is very reluctant to give out any information on his work, so biographical details are scant indeed. This is probably irrelevant as his reputation in France is huge, working as he does in many fields of music from the rich mediaeval tradition to de rigeur improvised music (with such musicians as Jean Marc Montera). As to the hurdy gurdy itself, its rediscovery in contemporary music continues in an exponential curve. Back in the old days, Leonardo da Vinci thought it was a pretty cool instrument too, coming up as he did with a multiple polyphonic version."-bio: Jon Rose, 1999 ^ Hide Bio for Dominique Regef • Show Bio for Aude Romary French cellist/improviser who, after studying clarinet, turned to the cello in 1997 and oriented her work toward sound-material extraction, improvisation and experimentation (with transducers, springs, microphones) often in correspondence with dance, text, light and drawing. ^ Hide Bio for Aude Romary • Show Bio for Mathieu Werchowski French violinist (and violist) and sound-artist working in the field of contemporary improvisation for many years. His playing is described as fluid, acrobatic on the half-erased staves of improvisation, drawing cycles, scratching, rubbing, vibration and tentatively merging violins/viola with electronics/extended techniques. ^ Hide Bio for Mathieu Werchowski
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Track Listing:
CD1
1. Unite Nodale T4S 45:41
CD2
1. Unite Nodale ESJ 57:04CD1
CD3
1. PME Postes Fixes 20:17
2. PME Cordes 24:34
3. Brigade d'Intervention Legere PSM 29:58
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| A long continuous work from this trio of soprano saxophonist, free improvisation using extended techniques and unusual approaches to the instrument. |
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| Sawai, Kazue / Michel Doneda / Kazuo Imai / Le Quan Ninh / Tetsu Saitoh Une chance pour l'ombre (Les Disques Victo) |
| Recorded live at Victoriaville in 2003, this French-Japanese quintet of koto, saxophone, acoustic guitar, bass, and percussion explores quiet but intensely focused free improvisation, balancing silence and fine detail as shifting small gestures and subtle textures weave a deep, slow-unfolding dialogue of remarkable sensitivity. |
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| Doneda, Michel / Erik M / Jean-Marc Montera Not (Les Disques Victo) |
| Noted for its live 1999 recording in France, this trio of Michel Doneda (soprano sax), Erik M (turntables, MiniDisc, sampling), and Jean-Marc Montera (guitar, electronics, objects) creates an electrifying mix of acoustic intensity and electroacoustic texture, with Doneda's incisive phrasing pulling guitar noise and manipulated vinyl into agile, unpredictable dialog for sharp collisions and eerie convergences in cutting-edge free improvisation. |
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