Jean-Marc Zelwer DAISSA 2003 | ar

Born 1960, Paris, France. Kumpania Zelwer is the brainchild of composer and multi-instrumentalist Jean-Marc Zelwer. Zelwer plays everything from nyckelharpa to santur to glass xylophone. His eight-piece band plays everything from washboard to toy piano to singing saw. This eclectic assortment of household appliances yields a colorful pastiche of sound. Zelwer and his company also use accordion, cello, trumpet, violin and tuba to create a sound that mixes elements of klezmer, cabaret, and street theatre, with touches of gypsy and Breton music for good measure. .

Guitars, objects, tapes. Jean-Marc Montera was co-founder of the GRIM (Groupe of Search and Musical Improvisation) in 1978. Has works in a wide variety of situations: solo, in groups of different sizes Ð in both situations appearing at many festivals Ð and particularly in association with artists from other backgrounds: with dance companies; composing and creating music for film and theatre; and working with graphics scores. more on european free improvisation pages .

Jean-Marc Duchenne, born in 1959, is an artist and a researcher specialized in experimental music, mostly within the Electroacoustic and Concrete Music genres. .

Born in 1957, Jean-Marc Vivenza is a french writer, philosopher, composer, musician and musicologist strongly influenced by esoteric currents. Devoted to sound and musical experimentalism, Vivenza work aims specially the electroacoustic and futurism. Nâgârjuna, René Guénon, Jacob Boehme, Joseph de Maistre, Martinès de Pasqually, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin or Jean-Baptiste Willermoz are some of is his past and present influences. Discography: Europe - Force - Unité - Métal (Cass) Métallurgie (Cass) Modes Réels Collectifs (Cass, C40) Réalité De L'Automation (Cass, C40) Veriti Plastici (Cass, C40) Fondements Bruitistes (7") 1984 Réalités Servo Mécaniques (LP) 1984 Essentialité Métallique (Cass) 1985 Machines (12") 1985...

Jean-Marc Luisada (Born June 3, 1958) is a pianist born in Bizerte, Tunisia. At the age of 16 he commenced studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, under Dominique Merlet (piano) and Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux (chamber music). He has also studied with Nikita Magaloff and Paul Badura-Skoda. Among his recordings are the waltzes and mazurkas of Chopin and the infrequently-heard chamber version of the first Chopin piano concerto, recorded with the Talich Quartet. Luisada's playing is characterised by an exquisitely nuanced technique that places it in the tradition of Isidor Phillip, Magaloff's own teacher. He has a passion for detail which can...