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NOW Society Improvisation Workshop: Éric Normand and Philippe Lauzier
March 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
NOW Society Improvisation Workshops
Spring 2024 at 8EAST
4:00pm – 5:30pm Saturday January 20th
2:00pm – 3:30 pm Saturdays March 16 – April 27
2:00pm – 3:30pm Sunday March 10 & March 24
FREE with NOW Membership, Donations gratefully accepted (here).
for up to 15 participants
More information about our workshops here
March 23 – Éric Normand and Philippe Lauzier
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Éric Normand is an improviser, bassist, instrument designer, composer, songwriter, singer and record and concert producer.
As an improviser, he develop a personal and radical playing on a homemade electric bass equipped with mics and objects feedbacking and vibrating in small electronic devices, creating electric flux interrupted by the instrumental gesture. With this set, he prefer to play duets, with Jim Denley (flute and sax), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet and sax), Xavier Charles (clarinet), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola de gamba and electronic), Jean-Luc Guionnet(saxophone), in addition of several spontaneous encounters.
Composer, clarinetist/saxophonist, sound artist, teacher and summer sailor, Philippe Lauzier lives in Montreal. His adventurous practice often manifests itself in collaboration with improvisation, but also through written forms, electroacoustic and interdisciplinarity. Instrumental preparation/transmutation by the involvement of interactive sound objects is a major interest of his work. In this field of experimentation, he has created two instrumental sound installations in the past years, Pianotissage (2019) and Gritty (2014). Over fifteen albums that involve his music, he has produced four solo titles including Transparence [Schraum, 2013], Dôme [Small Scale Music, 2016], A pond in my living room [Sofa, 2017] and Contreplaqué [Bandcamp, 2021].