Ensemble Hodos, directed by Sébastien Beliah and Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, has been working on giving a voice to composed music that hardly fits in categories: pieces that involve the performer in an unusual way, where the composed rubs shoulders with the improvised.
Since 2008, the ensemble has been performing music by Philip Corner, Roman Haubenstick-Ramati, John Cage, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, Florian Bergmann, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux or Joan Bages i Rubi, among others. When possible, the musicians are working in close relationship with the composers, either when performing pieces from a historical perspective or playing new compositions dedicated to them.
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux is a Paris-based alto saxophone player, composer and producer. He is
working as a freelance composer since 2006, focusing on relations
between sound, notation and the role of the musician in an ensemble. In
2008 he became an active member of record label and collective Umlaut Records, producing his own albums from the deconstructed Bebop of Peeping Tom to the original Composition No. 6, to a historical project on arrangers of Swing music with Umlaut Big Band that he leads, to the improvised music of r.mutt.
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Sébastien Beliah is a Paris-based double bass player and composer. His
work is mainly focused on improvisation and oral composition (r.mutt),
relationship between composed music and improvisation (ensemble hodos),
and new approach of jazz (duo with Laurent Pascal). He is part of the
umlaut crew in France. Sébastien Beliah is also deeply involved in the
field of education, and teach double bass and improvisation at the Reims
Conservatory.
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you can also read an interview of both musicians in conversation with Hannes Lingens on the subject of eclectism here.
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux saxophone and direction
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Sébastien Beliah double-bass and direction
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you can also read an interview of both musicians in conversation with Hannes Lingens on the subject of eclectism here.
Amaryllis Billet - violin
Fidel Fourneyron - trombone
Elodie Gaudet - viola
Antonin Gerbal - percussion
Roméo Monteiro - percussion
Brice Pichard - trumpet
Joris Rühl - clarinet
associated musicians
Hannes Lingens - percussion & accordion
Laurent Pascal - harmonica & toy piano
Eve Risser - piano