Jules Wysocki / acte vide
Two sets of experimental sound and improvisation by Jules Wysocki (France) and the duo acte vide (Greece).
🔷 Jules Wysocki will perform at KET a set of amplified cymbalum in free improvisation. Music for mental images, selected sounds, influences from neo-traditional and field recordings.
After playing the drums, Jules Wysocki instinctively composed his first sound pieces, which quickly found an audience in the French radio production world. “Ascenseur tour Sapporo” won the Pierre Schaeffer prize awarded by the Phonurgia Nova jury in 2012. That same year, he joined the electroacoustics class of Christine Groult, Pierre Schaeffer’s assistant, and immersed himself in the history and practice of concrete music.
There he composed a series of pieces that were broadcast on numerous occasions—Festival Futura, Banc d’Essai du INA GRM, La Gaîté Lyrique, Festival Longueur d’Onde, etc.
Since 2017, he has returned to his instrumental practice by working on a feedback device for his drums and a transformed cymbalum. This new sound palette led to a collaboration with Frédéric D. Oberland on the album Labyrinth (Nahal Recording).
His work involves record projects, musical duos, original scores for films and, most recently, the musical and sound creation for Marion Siefert’s latest play, Daddy, for the Théâtre de l’Odéon.
🔷 Giannis Kotsonis and Danae Stefanou have been collaborating artistically since 2006 under the name acte vide (“empty act”). With improvisation and sound and intermedia experimentation as their central focus, the duo explores the boundaries between sound, music, noise, and silence through ephemeral, constantly changing actions that resist recording or creatively undermine it. They have performed numerous concerts and at international and local festivals and exhibitions (Stereoma, Borderline, Irtijal, Athens Festival, TIFF, SIFF, Festival du Film Francophone, etc.) as well as dozens of self-organized venues, most of which no longer exist. Beyond concert performances, the duo’s activity extends to the field of artistic research and critical creative practices, through the design and implementation of original curatorial and educational interventions, such as the sound improvisation workshops at Knot Gallery (Athens, 2009-2014), and Sound Meetings (Syros 2012-2022).