DDK / GGRIL

jacques demierre, piano, composition
axel dörner, trumpet, composition
jonas kocher, accordion, composition

DIFFRACTION
Diffraction est le reflet amplifié, sur un territoire sonore plus étendu, de ce qui se joue au sein de la fabrication de la musique de DDK. Une composition écrite pour le GGRIL, où les trois musiciens-compositeurs tissent leur trame en juxtaposition, en superposition, en parallèle, toujours à l’intérieur même de la matière musicale. Mais Diffraction ne prend réellement vie que dans la collaboration étroite avec les instrumentistes du GGRIL, où la personnalité de chacun.e devient matière première. Un processus de composition intimement lié au processus de production des sons, car c’est là où prend forme la rencontre entre l’impulsion compositionnelle de DDK et l’énergie sonore du GGRIL, là où se manifeste ce qui est écouté.

GGRIL
Robert Bastien: electric guitar
Rémy Bélanger de Beauport: cello
Clarisse Bériault: oboe, objects
Isabelle Clermont: electric harp
Sébastien Côrriveau: bass clarinet
Olivier D’Amours: electric guitar
Alexis Gagnier-Michel: cello
Mathieu Gosselin: baryton saxophone
Jonathan Huard: vibraphone, percussions
Pascal Landry: classical guitar
Antoine Létourneau-Berger: ondes martenot, percussions
Éric Normand: electric bass
Alexandre Robichaud: trumpet
Gabriel Rochette-Bériau: trombone
Catherine Savard-Massicotte: violin

Recorded by Émilie Parent-Watt, at salle Desjardins-Telus, Rimouski (QC) on October 17 – 2023.
Mix and master by Axel Dörner.
Illustration and graphic design: Marie-Pierre Morin
Produced by Le GGRIL for Tour de Bras and Circum-Disc, 2025.

Since some musical connections already existed between certain members of the trio DDK and GGRIL, the idea emerged to bring these two ensembles together—different in size and continent, yet close enough in practice—to imagine that such a meeting could give rise to a collective sonic experience, rich and unprecedented, both for the musicians and for the audience.

The collaborative process between DDK and GGRIL is like an amplified reflection, on a broader sonic territory, of what takes place within the trio’s own music-making. A three-voiced compositional experience intended for the Québécois ensemble, DDK (Demierre, Dörner, Kocher) works as much through juxtaposition as through superposition, in parallel, and from within the musical material itself. A shared concern unites the three musician-composers: working in close collaboration with the instrumentalists, taking GGRIL as raw material, shaped by each member’s individuality.

This compositional process is intimately linked to the process of sound production, in which rehearsal time is essential, for it is there that sound literally comes into being and where the meeting between DDK’s compositional impulse and GGRIL’s sonic energy takes shape.