Nevers (Aus/Fr) - Clare Cooper & Jean-Phillipe Gross + Rosy Parlane
Schedule
Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am
UTC+13:00Location
4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand | Auckland, AU
Audio Foundation is thrilled to present..NEVERS (Clare Cooper - Jean-Philippe Gross)
Clare Cooper : guhzeng
Jean-Philippe Gross : electro-acoustic devices
and
Rosy Parlane!
Nevers
The duo finds common ground between Clare's Chinese guhzeng and Jean-Philippe's mixing
desk, lo-fi microphones, electroacoustic devices, and localized speaker system. Sometimes the duo sounds like a fire in an electronic flea market, other times like the amplification of an insect funeral march. An approach based on the strength of acoustics, and
capable of achieving a certain density of sound.
Clare M. Cooper (Sydney - Australia)
Clare M. Cooper's work spans futuring, pedagogy, interdisciplinary design research, workshop facilitation, design consultation, and performing arts. She completed her Ph.D. at Macquarie University, and is a Design Lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Design Architecture and Planning.
Over the last two decades, Cooper has brought together thousands of people to work together on community initiatives, creative approaches to governance, collaborative composition, speculative design, and critical listening through co-founding the NOW now (2001), Splinter Orchestra (Sydney 2000), Splitter Orchester (Berlin 2009), and Frontyard Projects (2016). Cooper has consulted on government projects, community grants and policy development with the City of Sydney, Inner West Council, Create NSW, and National Association for Visual Arts.
Cooper has contributed to publications including Bomb Magazine (USA), Liquid Architecture (Australia), Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (Australia), All Conference (Australia), Echtzeitmusik (Germany), Australian Music Centre, and Space 3 (Australia). As a musician, her international performances and compositions have been featured on Australia's ABC, Germany's SWR and UK's BBC and have been published by Mikroton (Russia), Splitrec
(Australia), and High Zero (USA).
Jean-Philippe Gross (Strasbourg – France)
Composer and improviser, Jean-Philippe Gross is a self-taught musician. In concert, he plays with a dedicated feedback system. In the studio, he continues his research with a “Serge modular system”.
At the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music, Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena. Never locked into any kind of systematism, he allows himself extremes to take advantage of a wide range of possibilities, and pays particular attention to timbre, grain and sound quality, even when rough.
He has composed music for dance and performance, as well as for contemporary ensembles such as Ensemble Dedalus. In concert, he collaborates with Marc Baron, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Clare Cooper (Nevers), Stéphane Garin… He works for dance with the choreographer Camille Mutel. He co-founded the Fragment concert series in Metz in 2001. In 2019, he created the record label Eich.
Rosy Parlane
After a spell in experimental rock outfits Thela and Parmentier, Yorkshire-born New Zealander Rosy Parlane established himself as a sound artist with a series of releases for Sigma Editions and Synaesthesia. He has also collaborated with artists such as Fennesz, AMM founder Eddie Prevost and avant-garde musician Mattin. In 2004, Parlane joined the ranks of influential UK label Touch
He has recorded two solo albums for Touch, Iris and Jessamine, and contributed to Black Sea by Fennesz.
Where is it happening?
4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand
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