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BIO

l’Artiste ordinaire is the inevitable collaboration between Melissa Grey & David Morneau. They create sound in performance. Their music is a heady mix of machined EDM beats, sound art practices, and soulful figurations. They bore inside moments of sonic ecstasy, exploding them into a trillion sparkling shards of shimmering sounds that swirl in a paradox of energized stasis. l’Artiste ordinaire designs projects that expand in endless variation to collaborate with musicians, video artists, designers, and creative technologists with Grey’s benjolin synthesizer and Morneau’s trombone at the center.

Drawn together by a compulsion to push beyond contemporary classical music conventions, Grey and Morneau founded l’Artiste ordinaire in 2016. Together they developed an inscrutable and immersive creative process capable of incanting a sonic magic out of structured improvisations, constrained processes, found poetry, and ancient musical practices.

l’Artiste ordinaire is based in New York City. More at artisteordinaire.org

PHOTOS

l’Artiste ordinaire performing at Pine Box Rock Shop [2018.01.27] – photo credit: Yuri Pires Tavares (High Res Version)
l'Artiste ordinaire - photo by Yuri Pires Tavares


l’Artiste ordinaire performing at Pine Box Rock Shop [2018.01.27] – photo credit: Yuri Pires Tavares (High Res Version)
l'Artiste ordinaire - photo by Yuri Pires Tavares


l’Artiste ordinaire performing on the Roof of Flower Cat HQ [2018.06.25]– photo credit: Yuri Pires Tavares (High Res Version)l'Artiste ordinaire - photo by Yuri Pires Tavares

 

PETITE ecstasy cover art – designed by l’Artiste ordinaire (High Res Version)
l'Artiste ordinaire PETITE ecstasy_cover_art

 

HIGHLIGHTED TRACKS

Selections from PETITE ecstasy || (full album download available on request: l.ao@artisteordinaire.org)

 

VIDEOS

 

PRESS QUOTES

“Each time I re-explore…, there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from.”
—Richard Harrington, New York Arts

 

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Featured in Ao Vivo no Casarão | Lado B documentary series
  • 2018 Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor of the Arts, College of Arts and Media, School of Music, Marshall University, West Virginia
  • 2018 Toy Piano Pioneer Resident Artists at the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Commissioned by Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to create a performance to celebrate the opening of Arbitrary Pleasures (Plaisirs arbitraires)

 

CONTACT

email: l.ao@artisteordinaire.org

Melissa Grey
greymgrey@gmail.com
646.204.2513

David Morneau
david@5of4.com
614.570.0332