Alice Guerlot-Kourouklis

Alice Guerlot-Kourouklis is a sound artist and composer based in France. With a degree in sociology, she worked as a musician (accordion and piano) before devoting herself to composition. Composition, which emerged from her instrumental practices (self-taught, unorthodox use of instruments, sound as a material to be sculpted, modification of the timbre of the instrument with real-time sound processing, ambiguity between natural sound and synthetic sound) is approached as an empirical process. Through encounters with other artistic fields, she has freely navigated between several aesthetics, exploring the concept of translation and the notion of conversation between media and concept. She co-founded the collective IAKERI and co-signed the installation "Murs Invisibles", presented in numerous art centres and festivals. She then introduced herself to free improvisation and polyrhythm, which also led her to reflect on the impregnations of the ear and its perceptions. She took part in the creation at Le Cube in 2018 of OWO, Open Women Orchestra, conceived as a collective laboratory for improvisation and experimentation in chosen non-mixity.
In 2020, the Festival Image Sonore commissioned a work of mixed music piece, which she performed accompanied by cellist Eric-Maria Couturier and violinist Antoine Maisonhaute.
In 2021, the TANA Quartet commissioned her to create Through The Looking | Glass, a work of mixed music based on the quartets of Philip Glass.
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