Félix Gerbelot graduates from classical violin studies before
going back to the music he grew up with. Bill Frisell, Frank
Zappa, Joe Hisaishi, Jean-Luc Ponty or Jon Hassell are names he
still resonates with and look up to. Studying jazz with Remi
Crambes opened new ways of playing and exploring techniques
which led him to graduate from the Conservatoire de Paris in
jazz and improvised musics where he had the chance to meet
and play with musicians such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Joe Sanders
and Tim Bern.
With an ever-growing interest in Fourth World music, a call to
poetry and invention, and the experience of many
collaborations ranging from creations with contemporary
dancers to Brittany folk music, he now explores irish repertoire
with Ponceau, an acoustic erhu and violin duo keen to find a
place for raw improvisation and some unusual meetings of
timbres.
On the lookout for new, secret phonic sparkles, he is
seeking new ways of bringing his instrument into electronic
territory with Space Clignancourt where he minutely shapes and
grinds the sound of his violin. Part of his life as much as
being an instrumentist, his composing works go from writing
« Les Abysses », a piece for extended symphonic orchestra and
amplified instruments, to chamber music for his new project
« Les contes allant vers » which embraces improvisation in a
unique formation of strings and saxophone.