NEVERS (Clare Cooper & Jean-Philippe Gross [FR])

WEDNESDAY January 21st at 7.30 p.m. [doors at 7]

Clare Cooper: guzheng
Jean-Philippe Gross: electronic

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 Gari. He works for dance with the choreographer Camille Mutel.
In 2019, he created the record label Eich.

Clare M. Cooper's work spans futuring, pedagogy, interdisciplinary design research, workshop facilitation, design consultation, and performing arts. She completed her Ph.D. at Macquarie University, and is a Design Lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Design Architecture and Planning.

Over the last two decades, Cooper has brought together thousands of people to work together on community initiatives, creative approaches to governance, collaborative composition, speculative design, and critical listening through co-founding the NOW now (2001), Splinter Orchestra (Sydney 2000), Splitter Orchester (Berlin 2009), and Frontyard Projects (2016).

Cooper has consulted on government projects, community grants and policy development with the City of Sydney, Inner West Council, Create NSW, and National Association for Visual Arts.

Cooper has contributed to publications including Bomb Magazine (USA), Liquid Architecture (Australia), Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (Australia), All Conference (Australia), Echtzeitmusik (Germany), Australian Music Centre, and Space 3 (Australia). As a musician, her international performances and compositions have been featured on Australia's ABC, Germany's SWR and UK's BBC and have been published by Mikroton (Russia), Splitrec (Australia), and High Zero (USA).

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