Soundtrips NRW, Nr. 75 - Camille Émaille & Nina Garcia

In the organizer's words:

The Soundtrips NRW series, which has been running for 15 years, showcases the many facets of improvised music. In the first part of the concert, the touring musicians, Camille Émaille and Nina Garcia, play their own program. In the second half of the concert, they will be joined by musicians from NRW - Jan Krause (electric guitar) and Simon Camatta (drums).

Camille Émaille and Nina Gar cia have been crossing paths on European stages for several years. After several encounters in a trio with Maria Bertel and Arnaud Rivière as well as in the improvisation ensemble Le Un, they are now embarking on their journey as a duo. A percussive guitar, feedback percussion: together they build a music that is incisive, committed and profound, all improvised.

Camille Émaille, percussionist from a village in the Mercantour region in the Alpes Maritimes, completed her classical studies at the conservatories of Nice and Strasbourg before perfecting her skills in contemporary music and improvisation with Christian Dierstein and Fred Frith at the Music Academy in Basel (Switzerland), graduating with honors in percussion in 2018. Considering her artistic-musical practice as components of the world and life, as cells of all things, independent of a fixed time and place, she has developed projects "outside the box". The collective #, of which she was an organizing member and musician, produced "wild" concerts in places that are usually closed to the public but have a strong history and acoustics. In October 2015, she organized the first edition of the MYOSOTIS festival of free, traditional and experimental music in a desecrated former synagogue in Alsace.

Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been researching and creating around the electric guitar between improvised music and noise. Her instruments are reduced to a minimum: a guitar, a pedal, an amplifier, with which she shapes sounds and immerses herself in chaos to bring out the unheard. In her solo "Mariachi", the focus is on the gesture and the exploration of the instrument, its resonances, its limits, its expansions, its impurities, its audible niches: going with it or against it, containing it or making it sound, supporting it or hurting it. There is feedback, crackling, short-circuits, jolts, overtones, squeaks and, by chance, almost perfect tones and chords.