doors 20h, start 20h30

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Bazelaire's "Grounds"

In early music, a 'ground' is an obstinate bass, a melodic and rythmic ostinato. 
In english, it means the surface of the earth, a property, an area. Here, 
'Grounds is a set of pieces and a place of doublebass experimental exploration.

Featuring:

Echos

(comp: Patricia Bosshard)
Echos is inspired from our auditive environment and is poetically expressed on an acoustic instrument—the double bass. This piece is based on resonances—from a note, from the instrument’s body, from the performance space. The musician will be guided by the acoustics for the time of silences.

Basse Seule

(comp: Bertrand Denzler) 
Basse seule is a series of études and pieces for double bass composed by Bertrand Denzler for Félicie Bazelaire. The music is built on simple systems, which allow an exploration of some characteristics and limits of the instrument, as well as the situation of the instrumentalist playing alone. The sonorities are raw, the pulse is regular, creating a space where the wave can unfold until reaching the foundation of its function: the bass. Like a reminiscence of history, pizzicatos, scordaturas and long bowed notes are the main tools of the pieces. Within the systems, the musician has to choose between countless options and to venture in winding and unmanageable paths in order to reveal the sound’s complexity and fragility.

L'épaisseur Innombrable 

(comp: d'incise)
L'épaisseur innombrable ("The innumerable thickness") is a piece made of a system of objects (gestures and chords) restricted and precise, linear but never repeating itself identically, a very slow waltz bringing back the double bass to a series of fragile and poetic sound manifestations, to "Nothing more. But the innumerable thickness, asleep." ("Plus rien. Que l'épaisseur innombrable, endormie").

Félicie Bazelaire (1986) is a doublebass and a cello player, based in Paris. In the cross of improvised music, written music and happening actions, she works with composers and musicians as Peter Ablinger, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Philip Corner, Malcom Goldstein, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Hannes Lingens, Luiz Henrique Yudo... She is playing also in Hodos Ensemble (dir. by P-A. Badaroux and S. Beliah), and ONCEIM (dir. by Fréderic Blondy), the both based in Paris. She performs her own compositions, in duo with Bertrand Denzler, and in trio with Benjamin Dousteyssier and Laurent Pascal. Recently, she starts a new project Beat the Odds, with Pascal Niggenkemper, Elisabeth Coudoux and Ricardo Jacinto.