Eklekto is a contemporary percussion collective located in Geneva. Eklekto is constantly engaged in creative work, collaborating with contemporary composers and artists to present projects that reinvent percussion and listener’s expectations. Created under the visionary impetus of percussionist Pierre M\u00e9tral in 1974, this ensemble of varying dimensions now works with more than 20 percussionists from the Leman lake region.<\/p>\n
Eklekto has commissioned some 100 percussion works by composers such as Ryoji Ikeda, Thomas Meadowcroft, Yoshihisa Taira, Stefano Gervasoni, Pierre Jodlowski, William Blank, Sven-\u00c5ke Johansson, Thomas Kessler and Billy Martin, and has performed with Fritz Hauser, Etienne Jaumet, Stefan Asbury, Arturo Tamayo, Synergy Percussion and Ensemble KNM Berlin.<\/p>\n
In its current projects, Eklekto is questioning the contemporary music concert format through proposals such as the Words & Percussion trilogy \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Galpon 2014-2016, the Gamelan concert \/ Festival Archipel 2015, and the Discount minimal concert-installation project with Thomas Meadowcroft (composer) and Florian Bach (visual artist) \/ Geneva 2017. Since 2006, Eklekto has also been the initiator of the biennial Batteries!<\/em> festival, dedicated to drums of all types.<\/p>\n In 2022, Eklekto took up residence in Geneva’s new cultural project \u00ab L<\/strong>es 6 toits \u00bb<\/strong>, (The 6 Rooftops) with the Ensemble Contrechamps, the Orchestre de Chambre de Gen\u00e8ve, and the Conservatoire populaire.<\/p>\n Following in the footsteps of Steven Schick and Jean Geoffroy, and Alexandre Babel from 2013 to 2022, Eklekto has appointed as its Art Co-Directors Dorian Fretto, Corentin Marillier, and Yi-Ping Yang, who bring a collaborative and complementary approach to the Collectif’s artistic project.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"Eklekto is a contemporary percussion collective located in Geneva. Eklekto is constantly engaged in creative work, collaborating with contemporary composers and artists to present projects that reinvent percussion and listener's expectations. Created under the visionary impetus of percussionist Pierre M\u00e9tral in 1974, this ensemble of varying dimensions now works with more than 20 percussionists from the Leman lake region.\r\n\r\nEklekto has commissioned some 100 percussion works by composers such as Ryoji Ikeda, Thomas Meadowcroft, Yoshihisa Taira, Stefano Gervasoni, Pierre Jodlowski, William Blank, Sven-\u00c5ke Johansson, Thomas Kessler and Billy Martin, and has performed with Fritz Hauser, Etienne Jaumet, Stefan Asbury, Arturo Tamayo, Synergy Percussion and Ensemble KNM Berlin.\r\n\r\nIn its current projects, Eklekto is questioning the contemporary music concert format through proposals such as the Words & Percussion trilogy \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Galpon 2014-2016, the Gamelan concert \/ Festival Archipel 2015, and the Discount minimal concert-installation project with Thomas Meadowcroft (composer) and Florian Bach (visual artist) \/ Geneva 2017. Since 2006, Eklekto has also been the initiator of the biennial Batteries!<\/em> festival, dedicated to drums of all types.\r\n\r\nIn 2022, Eklekto took up residence in Geneva's new cultural project \u00ab L<\/strong>es 6 toits \u00bb<\/strong>, (The 6 Rooftops) with the Ensemble Contrechamps, the Orchestre de Chambre de Gen\u00e8ve, and the Conservatoire populaire.\r\n\r\nFollowing in the footsteps of Steven Schick and Jean Geoffroy, and Alexandre Babel from 2013 to 2022, Eklekto has appointed as its Art Co-Directors Dorian Fretto, Corentin Marillier, and Yi-Ping Yang, who bring a collaborative and complementary approach to the Collectif's artistic project."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_fr_post_content":" Eklekto<\/i><\/b><\/span> est un collectif genevois consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la percussion contemporaine. Fond\u00e9 en 1974 par le percussionniste Pierre M\u00e9tral, il r\u00e9unit aujourd\u2019hui une trentaine de musicien.ne.s de la r\u00e9gion l\u00e9manique. Ensemble, ils explorent de nouvelles formes de cr\u00e9ation aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de compositrices.teurs et d\u2019artistes venus d\u2019horizons vari\u00e9s.<\/p>\r\n Acteur incontournable de la sc\u00e8ne locale, Eklekto collabore r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement \u00e0 des rendez-vous culturels suisses et se produit \u00e9galement \u00e0 diff\u00e9rents festivals internationaux majeurs.<\/p>\r\n Commanditaire de plus d\u2019une centaine d\u2019\u0153uvres, sign\u00e9es par Ryoji Ikeda, Stefano Gervasoni, Pierre Jodlowski ou Luis Na\u00f3n, le collectif cultive une esth\u00e9tique plurielle nourrie par des cr\u00e9atrices.teurs comme Justina Repe\u010dkait\u0117, ou encore Julie Semoroz, et met en lumi\u00e8re des solistes tels qu\u2019Arthur Hnatek et des personnalit\u00e9s issues d\u2019autres disciplines, tels que la chor\u00e9graphe Cindy Van Acker.<\/p>\r\n Tr\u00e8s engag\u00e9 dans la m\u00e9diation, Eklekto d\u00e9veloppe des dispositifs p\u00e9dagogiques originaux : <\/b>ateliers interactifs, visites autour de son vaste instrumentarium, exp\u00e9riences sonores immersives et projets innovants.<\/p>\r\n Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 dirig\u00e9 successivement par Pierre M\u00e9tral, William Blank, Steven Schick, Jean Geoffroy puis Alexandre Babel, p\u00e9riode marqu\u00e9e par la transformation du Centre International de Percussion en Eklekto, le collectif a franchi un nouveau cap en 2022. Il a rejoint Les 6 toits, p\u00f4le culturel genevois partag\u00e9 avec Contrechamps, l\u2019OCG et le Conservatoire populaire.<\/p>\r\n Depuis f\u00e9vrier 2023, sa direction artistique est assur\u00e9e par Dorian Fretto, Corentin Marillier et Yi-Ping Yang, qui portent ensemble une vision collaborative et compl\u00e9mentaire.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","_fr_post_name":"a-propos","_fr_post_excerpt":"","_fr_post_title":"\u00c0 propos","_en_post_content":"Eklekto is a contemporary percussion collective located in Geneva. Eklekto is constantly engaged in creative work, collaborating with contemporary composers and artists to present projects that reinvent percussion and listener's expectations. Created under the visionary impetus of percussionist Pierre M\u00e9tral in 1974, this ensemble of varying dimensions now works with more than 20 percussionists from the Leman lake region.\r\n\r\nEklekto has commissioned some 100 percussion works by composers such as Ryoji Ikeda, Thomas Meadowcroft, Yoshihisa Taira, Stefano Gervasoni, Pierre Jodlowski, William Blank, Sven-\u00c5ke Johansson, Thomas Kessler and Billy Martin, and has performed with Fritz Hauser, Etienne Jaumet, Stefan Asbury, Arturo Tamayo, Synergy Percussion and Ensemble KNM Berlin.\r\n\r\nIn its current projects, Eklekto is questioning the contemporary music concert format through proposals such as the Words & Percussion trilogy \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Galpon 2014-2016, the Gamelan concert \/ Festival Archipel 2015, and the Discount minimal concert-installation project with Thomas Meadowcroft (composer) and Florian Bach (visual artist) \/ Geneva 2017. Since 2006, Eklekto has also been the initiator of the biennial Batteries!<\/em> festival, dedicated to drums of all types.\r\n\r\nIn 2022, Eklekto took up residence in Geneva's new cultural project \u00ab L<\/strong>es 6 toits \u00bb<\/strong>, (The 6 Rooftops) with the Ensemble Contrechamps, the Orchestre de Chambre de Gen\u00e8ve, and the Conservatoire populaire.\r\n\r\nFollowing in the footsteps of Steven Schick and Jean Geoffroy, and Alexandre Babel from 2013 to 2022, Eklekto has appointed as its Art Co-Directors Dorian Fretto, Corentin Marillier, and Yi-Ping Yang, who bring a collaborative and complementary approach to the Collectif's artistic project.","_en_post_name":"a-propos","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"Presentation","edit_language":"en","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\r\n