Maurice Charles JJ (Be)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

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How to combine the respective approaches of improvised instrumental music and electroacoustic music written in studio? How to preserve our respective assets and strengthen one another?

The instrumentalist, an improvisational creator, adapts his game to the real-time transformations proposed and adapted by the electroacoustic part to a saxophonist’s play. The composer or sonic creator, provides the instrumentalist with an augmented instrument, enriched by the specific transformations of the electroacoustic creation of sound material, projected into multiphonic space. From his side, he reproduces, at the closest : a creation of improvised sequences and/or prepared writing cells, transformed and remixed in real time.

Co-création Maurice Charles JJ (Be) (Saxophones) + Stephan Dunkelman (Be) (Processing/live spatialization and music).

Concert

Playing Tibetan, Indian, Vietnamese bowls, gongs and other Asian ritual objects, Isa Belle and Paradise Now offer meditative environmental pieces based mainly on acoustic vibrations. With these dialogues of electronic sequences (Stephan Dunkelman), guitaristic landscape (Paradise Now) and the free and matierist sopranino saxophone played by Maurice Charles JJ. A unique transsonic harmonizing “comprovisational” experience!

Co-creation Isa Belle (Fr/Be) + Paradise Now (Be) + Stephan Dunkelman (Be) + Maurice Charles JJ (Be).
Production: Transcultures.

Biography

Jean-Jacques Duerinckx aka Maurice Charles JJ (Braine-L’Alleud) practices mainly sopranino and baritone saxophones, his first influences being Steve Lacy, Antonny Braxton, John Surman, Hamiet Bluiett. His meeting with saxophonists Lol Coxhill, then Michel Doneda was decisive: his play and musical style are guided in a universe where sound material and abstract melodies coexist and merge. Sensitive to visual arts, he is interested in electroacoustic music, sonic art and more particularly by the notion of “soundscape”. Instrumentist, intuitive by nature, he likes to evolve in a universe populated by strange sound entities where the sound is matter, where matter is made sound. Furthermore, he collaborates with other forms of artistic expression by bringing this unique color inherent to the sopranino saxophone. He is also founder of the collective OMFI (One Moment Free Improv).