Julien Desprez – ‘Agora’
NEWS
- 09/01/2025
Julien Desprez : support Ichiko Aoba
The hijacked electric guitar, the speaking light, the human body pushed to its limits: the elegant post-jazz, post-noise, post-intensity dancer, Julien Desprez, always a wild support act with his piece ‘Agora‘ for the astonishing Ichiko Aoba. → On Tour : 10/03/25 • Barcelona (ES) • Paralel 62 11/03/25 • Valencia (ES) • La Rambleta 13/03/25
BIO
Performing solo with only his guitar and effects pedals as instruments themselves, his performance is a true performance that engages all the senses. The body is at the heart of his practice, and one theme still fuels his work today: what to do with bodies and their generated movements through music?
Originally conceived as a recorded sound piece, ‘Agora’ was created during the November 2020 confinement.
‘Agora’ is also a piece for electronics, impedance games, electric guitar and podoryhtmy, created during the autumn 2020 confinement and presented during the Italian Festival Cataclisma.
If Agora refers to the meeting place of the city, of the town, where the people come together, Agora also means “now” in Portuguese. Agora is twofold and plays from several points of view. A soft, explosive and joyful trance brings together podorythmics, high voltage electricity, guitar and body until their rupture and reconciliation. With playfulness and frenzy, a multiple world is negotiated through your listening.
‘Agora’ plunges us into the jungle of impedance. A jungle where the air is dry and moist and where the trees, a little too bright green, burn from within. Crackling under our steps, the road reveals a few shadows in the middle of the mud, dancing in a tap dance. The blackout is our vehicle, the electric tension our fuel.
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Julien Desprez : Composition, guitar, podorythmy, impedance, electronics
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Undertone reviews
« Desprez picking up his guitar and launching into Agora’s punishing passages of bowel-rupturing electronics, flashes of intricate slap guitar interspersed throughout an assault of apocalyptic screeches. His feet moved furiously the whole time, rhythmically mashing away at his extensive pedalboard, a technique which the programme rather romantically links to the French-Canadian folk tradition of podorythmie. »
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Amaury Cornut
TAGS
'ECHOS' - Julien Desprez 'déphasage électrique' (electric phasing)
live at AngelicA Festival Internazionale di Musica 2021
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live at Spazio Teatro Idra - MO.CA (Brescia, 11/02/23)
'Le guitariste en claquettes Julien Desprez' | Tracks ARTE 2021
ACAPULCO REDUX (2016)
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'SileSilence' (vidéo par Jacques Perconte pour le festival Sons d'hiver, 2022)
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'Le guitariste en claquettes Julien Desprez' | Tracks ARTE 2021
'Acapulco Redux' live au Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2019)
'Arc' trailler (2023)
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'ECHOS' - Julien Desprez 'déphasage électrique' (electric phasing)
-
live at AngelicA Festival Internazionale di Musica 2021
-
live at Spazio Teatro Idra - MO.CA (Brescia, 11/02/23)
-
'Le guitariste en claquettes Julien Desprez' | Tracks ARTE 2021
-
ACAPULCO REDUX (2016)
-
'SileSilence' (vidéo par Jacques Perconte pour le festival Sons d'hiver, 2022)
-
'Le guitariste en claquettes Julien Desprez' | Tracks ARTE 2021
-
'Acapulco Redux' live au Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2019)
-
'Arc' trailler (2023)
NEWS
- 09/01/2025
Julien Desprez : support Ichiko Aoba
The hijacked electric guitar, the speaking light, the human body pushed to its limits: the elegant post-jazz, post-noise, post-intensity dancer, Julien Desprez, always a wild support act with his piece ‘Agora‘ for the astonishing Ichiko Aoba. → On Tour : 10/03/25 • Barcelona (ES) • Paralel 62 11/03/25 • Valencia (ES) • La Rambleta 13/03/25
BIO
Performing solo with only his guitar and effects pedals as instruments themselves, his performance is a true performance that engages all the senses. The body is at the heart of his practice, and one theme still fuels his work today: what to do with bodies and their generated movements through music?
Originally conceived as a recorded sound piece, ‘Agora’ was created during the November 2020 confinement.
‘Agora’ is also a piece for electronics, impedance games, electric guitar and podoryhtmy, created during the autumn 2020 confinement and presented during the Italian Festival Cataclisma.
If Agora refers to the meeting place of the city, of the town, where the people come together, Agora also means “now” in Portuguese. Agora is twofold and plays from several points of view. A soft, explosive and joyful trance brings together podorythmics, high voltage electricity, guitar and body until their rupture and reconciliation. With playfulness and frenzy, a multiple world is negotiated through your listening.
‘Agora’ plunges us into the jungle of impedance. A jungle where the air is dry and moist and where the trees, a little too bright green, burn from within. Crackling under our steps, the road reveals a few shadows in the middle of the mud, dancing in a tap dance. The blackout is our vehicle, the electric tension our fuel.
LINE-UP
Julien Desprez : Composition, guitar, podorythmy, impedance, electronics
LINKS
PRESS
Undertone reviews
« Desprez picking up his guitar and launching into Agora’s punishing passages of bowel-rupturing electronics, flashes of intricate slap guitar interspersed throughout an assault of apocalyptic screeches. His feet moved furiously the whole time, rhythmically mashing away at his extensive pedalboard, a technique which the programme rather romantically links to the French-Canadian folk tradition of podorythmie. »
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Amaury Cornut