ALLAN GILBERT BALON live
Allan Gilbert Balon is a composer and performer from Guadeloupe based in Paris. His practice explores the relationship between sound, space and perception, building acoustic landscapes out of essential materials and a sensibility extremely attentive to the dimension of silence.
An intimate atmosphere envelops his music: echoes of slowed-down old player-piano rolls, cut tapes and interference from late-night radio intertwine in a sonic architecture where dissonance meets warmth. One can sense resonances of Thelonious Monk's touch, of the devotion to timbral matter of Charlemagne Palestine and Alvin Curran, and of the wandering calm of the piano compositions of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
He has presented his work in international contexts such as Café OTO and has collaborated with several artists of the contemporary European experimental scene.
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