Alice Guerlot-Kourouklis
Alice Guerlot-Kourouklis is a musician, sound artist, and composer based in France. With a degree in sociology, she initially worked as a musician (playing the accordion and piano) before turning her focus to composition and sound art. Her compositional approach first emerged from her self-taught and experimental instrumental practices before taking shape through an exploration of the concept of dialogue between media—field recording, the broadcast of interviews or poetry, the abstraction of sound in encounters with image or dance, and the search for singularity through meticulous work on textures as a preferred mode of musical expression for films. Her practice today spans electroacoustic music, composition for live performance, film, and installations.
Drawing on the humanities and guided by an experimental approach, she has spent several years exploring the musical translation of sociological and philosophical concepts, as well as social phenomena. Thus, in 2016, she co-founded the IAKERI collective, for which she serves as co-artistic director, and in 2019 co-created the installation *Murs Invisibles* (or *The Visible Walls of Patriarchy*), a visual and sound installation in quadraphonic sound that has been presented at various art centers and festivals in France and internationally (2019–2026). This work marked the beginning of a new approach to musical creation for her, utilizing digital data derived from a social phenomenon to determine the spatial arrangement, dynamics, timbre, and texture of the music—through the use of distortions, frequency sculpting, the creation of depth, and silences. At the same time, she began exploring free improvisation and helped launch the OWO (Open Women Orchestra) at Le Cube in 2018, conceived as a collective laboratory for improvisation and experimentation with a deliberately all-female lineup, which performed at the Théâtre de Vanves in 2019. She then began studying percussion and Guinean polyrhythms, which led her to reflect on the cultural influences shaping her own musical ear and encouraged her to explore questions of ambiguity and perception in music.
In 2020, the Festival Image Sonore commissioned her to compose a mixed-media piece for “l’Agriconium,” which she performed alongside cellist Eric-Maria Couturier (Ensemble Intercontemporain) and violinist Antoine Maisonhaute (Quatuor Tana). In 2021, the TANA Quartet commissioned her to create Through The Looking | Glass, a mixed-media piece inspired by Philip Glass’s quartets. Her practice in electroacoustic music, enriched by the teachings of Marco Marini, Jonathan Prager, and Santiago Diez Fisher in the electroacoustic music composition class at the CRD in Pantin, allows her to deepen this approach that blends sound experimentation and conceptual reflection in order to translate social realities into tangible sonic experiences, inviting listeners to engage in attentive and reflective listening, where sound becomes as much a vehicle for meaning as it is for emotions. His sound and musical work has been presented at various art centers and festivals in France and internationally.
www.algk.ovhJimena Royo-Letelier
Jimena Royo-Letelier, a Chilean artist, engineer, and researcher, came to France to study mathematical physics at the École Polytechnique. She also holds a degree from IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) and works as a sound engineer for concerts and art installations. As a research associate at Médialab, an interdisciplinary laboratory at Sciences Po Paris, she divides her time between scientific research and artistic projects that bring together sound, mathematics, and socio-political issues. In 2016, she co-founded the IAKERI collective with composer Alice Guerlot-Kourouklis, with whom she shares artistic direction. In 2019, the IAKERI collective created the sound and visual installation “Murs Invisibles,” a work that has been presented in various exhibitions and festivals in France, Canada, Colombia, and Chile. In 2016, she created the interactive sound piece “Conversations” with Pierre Berger and Sergio Krakowski, which was exhibited at Universum, the Museum of Science and Technology in Mexico City. Beginning in 2017, with Pierre Berger and Vincent Martial, she created several sound and visual sculptures for the art and science research group “Esthétopies,” which focuses on the sensory exploration of mathematical spaces.
In 2021, with the project “Lineas de Fuga” on the relationship between sound and prisons—created with Jasmina Al-Qaisi and in collaboration with the collective Pajarx entre Púas—Jimena was selected for the “Resonancias” program organized by the Goethe-Institut and the Institut Français, and completed a residency at the Tsonami sound art center in Valparaíso, Chile. Since 2018, Jimena has been actively involved in internationalist and environmental causes. In 2019, she returned to Chile to participate in the ongoing social movements and later in the Chilean constitutional process. She served as communications director and then as executive producer of the television campaign for the Social Constituent Movements for the 2022 constitutional referendum.
Since 2018, Jimena has been actively involved in internationalist and environmental causes. In 2019, she returned to Chile to participate in the ongoing social movements and later in the Chilean constitutional process. She served as communications director and then as executive producer of the television campaign for the Social Constituent Movements ahead of the 2022 constitutional referendum.
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Aneymone Wilhelm was a visual artist, set designer, decorator, and prop master for theater and film.
Our friend and companion, our magician of DIY, sculpture, hand-sewn tulle, and the jigsaw, died in a senseless bicycle accident on the morning of December 1, 2023, in Aubervilliers. She was 38 years old.
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