Improvised Music
Haekem Theatre: Rue de Laeken - 66 Lakensestraat - 1000 Brussels
The Duerinckx, Wachtelaer, Massolini trio is undoubtedly a trio that will prick your heart.
The Duerinckx, Wachtelaer, Massolini trio is undoubtedly a trio that will prick your heart.
His uncompromising music will take you on a journey to the confines of a well-assumed freedom...
JJ Duerinckx aka Maurice Charles JJ (B)
Sopranino and baritone saxophones
JJ Duerinckx aka Maurice Charles JJ (B)
Sopranino and baritone saxophones
Practicing improvisation for over 20 years. Many renowned musicians from the world of free improvised music mark his career, such as Lol Coxhill, John Russell, Michel Doneda, Barre Philips, Jacques Foschia, Tom Jackson, Adrian Northover, Matthieu Safatly, Tatsuya Nakatani, Peter Jacquemyn, Roger Turner, Dan Warburton, Anton Mobin... just to name a few.
Sensitive to the visual arts, he is interested in electro-acoustic music, sound art and more particularly in the notion of "soundscapes", a concept dear to the composer R Murray Schaffer in his book "The Tuning of the world". The idea of confronting sound material and melodies, whether abstract or not, constitutes one of the bases of his musical language as well as a vector of energy to share.
In 2018, he founded “Unreal Brotherface” with the acousmatic composer Stephan Dunkelman, whom he met in 2004 within Zohara, an ensemble created by Zahava Seewald produced by John Zorn (Tzadik 2004) in which he played. Unreal Brotherface participated, among others, in the City Sonic Winter session 2019 and the Belgian Music Days 2020.
In 2015, he met the multimedia artist Alexandra Dementieva with whom he played in the duo 'Tunnel Hearing' recently joined by the cellist/double bassist José Bedeur.
In March 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, he created Lamaφ (lamaphi), a multidisciplinary protean group, bringing together dancers, musicians and videographers.
He is founder of the OMFI collective (2011/2019) with cellist Matthieu Safatly and created the group Neptunian Maximalism in 2018 with multi-instrumentalist guitarist Guillaume Cazalet.
astateofmutation.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mutation-by-mcjj
https://neptunianmaximalism.bandcamp.com/
Dirk Wachtelaer (B)
Drums
His interest in improvisation was born during contact dance jams in Brussels, where he met artists who would change his vision and his approach to improvisation: Michel Massot, Ernst Glerum, Jon Rose, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Guillonet.
Sensitive to the visual arts, he is interested in electro-acoustic music, sound art and more particularly in the notion of "soundscapes", a concept dear to the composer R Murray Schaffer in his book "The Tuning of the world". The idea of confronting sound material and melodies, whether abstract or not, constitutes one of the bases of his musical language as well as a vector of energy to share.
In 2018, he founded “Unreal Brotherface” with the acousmatic composer Stephan Dunkelman, whom he met in 2004 within Zohara, an ensemble created by Zahava Seewald produced by John Zorn (Tzadik 2004) in which he played. Unreal Brotherface participated, among others, in the City Sonic Winter session 2019 and the Belgian Music Days 2020.
MxSx, his duet with Dimitri Coppe, was created in Flagey during the 2022 Sound Week and is a tribute to the recently deceased composer.
The confrontation of his sound expertise with other modes of artistic expression such as visual arts, performance, contemporary dance, remains essential to his artistic research.
The confrontation of his sound expertise with other modes of artistic expression such as visual arts, performance, contemporary dance, remains essential to his artistic research.
He participates in CEPI founded by double bassist Barre Philips.
Collaborations among others with Harold Schellinx, Patricia Kuypers, Frank Beaubois, Pascale Gille, Stéphanie Auberville, Isako Horikawa, Peter M. Friess...
In 2015, he met the multimedia artist Alexandra Dementieva with whom he played in the duo 'Tunnel Hearing' recently joined by the cellist/double bassist José Bedeur.
In March 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, he created Lamaφ (lamaphi), a multidisciplinary protean group, bringing together dancers, musicians and videographers.
It is the basis of the lab'OMFI: a transdisciplinary experimental laboratory which was held at the Halles St Géry in Brussels from 2017 to 2019.
He is founder of the OMFI collective (2011/2019) with cellist Matthieu Safatly and created the group Neptunian Maximalism in 2018 with multi-instrumentalist guitarist Guillaume Cazalet.
astateofmutation.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mutation-by-mcjj
https://neptunianmaximalism.bandcamp.com/
Dirk Wachtelaer (B)
Drums
Dirk Wachtelaer has been playing drums for more than 30 years.
He has been active in many genres but his main focus has always been on improvisation and experimentation.
He has played with Paul Schutze, Toshinori Kondo, Stevie Wishart, Phillip Clemo, and many others.
He recorded 3 solo albums and leads the ensemble Vanishing Pictures, creating music that vanishes when you try to label it.
dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/
https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Dirk%20Wachtelaer
Mattia Massolini (IT),
Double bass
Mattia Massolini was born in 1981 in Pavia (IT), he lived in Florence between 2001 and 2006 where he collaborated with several swing and gypsy jazz groups.
dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/
https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Dirk%20Wachtelaer
Mattia Massolini (IT),
Double bass
Mattia Massolini was born in 1981 in Pavia (IT), he lived in Florence between 2001 and 2006 where he collaborated with several swing and gypsy jazz groups.
In 2008, he moved to Brussels where he began studying classical double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
In the meantime he has worked with "Too Much and the white nots" and other Belgian songwriters, with the Folk Fusion group "Stingo" and collaborated with several orchestras in Belgium and France (ONB, BPO) .
His interest in improvisation was born during contact dance jams in Brussels, where he met artists who would change his vision and his approach to improvisation: Michel Massot, Ernst Glerum, Jon Rose, Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Guillonet.
He has collaborated with several free improvisation collectives such as the P.I.L.S collective, Lamaphi, BIC, Bubble Dance. Member of the improvisation trio MA.MA.AND with Andres Navarro and Marcello Giannandrea.
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