CAMILLE ÉMAILLE
21.09. • 22:00 – 04:00 • Spxlxnkx • Night program
As a percussionist from a village in the Mercantour in the Alpes Maritimes, Camille Emaille did her classical studies at the conservatoires of Nice and Strasbourg before joining the Musik Akademie in Basel to perfect her skills in contemporary music and improvisation with Christian Dierstein and Fred Frith. After a spell at Mills College in Oakland, where she worked with Roscoe Mitchell and William Winant, she interrupted her studies to devote herself fully to all her projects outside the school. Her practice today is based on a physical relationship with sound, as much in the material and volume of the instruments she works with as in working with clay, as in the physical energy expended in playing. Whether through improvisation, written or pre-structured music she seeks that line where energy, concentration and listening are activated to such a level that awareness of oneself, in relation to the rest of the world, finally disappears.
She currently tours mainly as a soloist, in a trio with GÉSIR, a group made up of Jean-Luc Guionnet on organ and Julien Desailly on bagpipes, with OTTO made up of Gabriel Valtchev and Pol Small where all three play the Tapan (Bulgarian percussion), with the duo OXKE-FIXU with clarinettist Xavière Fertin with whom she has created a gong accousmonium that diffuses and transforms the sounds of the clarinet and percussion, in another duo with guitarist Nina Garcia, as part of the large improvisation ensemble 'Le Un', the ESCARGOT quartet with Tom Malmendier on drums, Louis Frères on bass and Xavière Fertin on clarinet, and in a trio with Hans Koch (clarinets) and Dieb13 (turntables). She collaborates with a range of artists working with video, shadow and puppet theatre, dance and theatre, including choreographer Élodie Sicard for the play Les Assaillants, composer Michaël Wertmüller for the musical theatre piece D.I.E. (2021), composer Heiner Goebbels for the play Everything That Happened and Would Happen (2018) and director Aurore Emaille for the films Village Debout (2021) and Entre tes mains (2023).
Photo © Chloe Azzopardi
