THE ORCHESTRA
The interest is to shake up habits by approaching orchestral music differently, with the desire to surprise, to take sides. To engage in a new conception of the orchestra, to enlighten it in another way through the rhythmic section, to deform it, to bend it or to twist it.
Under the direction of Benoît Graindorge, the 40 musicians give us their vision of today's music: heterogeneous, atypical, offbeat.
Oblique is a symphonic approach to today's music.
Neither vertical nor horizontal, at an angle.
UN ORCHESTRE AMATEUR
Amateur ne veut pas dire amateurisme
Certes parmi les musiciens se cachent quelques profs de violon, de ci ou de ça, quelques intermittents égarés, une poignée de reconvertis et une joyeuse bande d'énervés des jam sessions, mais Oblique n'en est pas moins un ensemble amateur.
Professionnels ou non ce qui rassemble et lie les instrumentistes d'Oblique, c'est l'envie de créer et de participer à une chose commune, cette aberration mathématique qui rend plus grand le tout que la somme de ses parties.
L'ensemble est ouvert à tou.te.s ! L'avenir de l'orchestre est toujours en construction, stimulé par la soif de nouveaux défis et de nouvelles partitions. La forme elle-même n'est jamais figée : les quarante musiciens seront peut-être un jour cinquante !
Un bon compositeur est un compositeur mort
C'est ce qu'on pourrait finir par croire si on en juge par le répertoire habituellement joué par les ensembles symphoniques classiques...
C'est vrai il existe des œuvres somptueuses, magistrales, splendides, qui ont été écrites par le passé.
Oblique a pris un parti assez radical : toutes les créations sont écrites par des compositeurs encore tout vivant, et bien souvent locaux (cela réduit d'autant l'impact carbone).
BENOIT
GRAIN BARLEY
Conductor
Benoît Graindorge began his oboe studies at the Dijon CRR in 2000. His interest in the "orchestral" instrument quickly led him to diversify: he followed writing and chamber music classes, he began to learn the piano, cello and percussion. He successively obtained the DEM for musical training, oboe and direction of instrumental ensembles, the CFEM for chamber music ...
He is currently pursuing his studies in orchestral conducting at the Pole Supérieur de Musique de Paris Boulogne Billancourt with Nicolas Brochot, where he had the opportunity to conduct several professional groups such as the Orchestra of the Guardians of the Peace.
He is also currently conductor and choir director at the Houilles conservatory.
THOMAS
RENT
Keyboards
ThoTho has been creating and programming music since 1992.
He has been working the piano since the age of 11 and percussion for ten years.
Former member of the FREE'S B, URBAN 5tet… groups. and PAUSE (with
Guizmo from TRYO and Daniel Jamet from La Mano Negra).
He plays and turns today in several groups: MONSIEUR CHARLES (electro jazz), MEi (experimental song), SAINT LOUP (soul) of which he realizes and produces the first album in 2011 and ILTIKA (Acoustic Hip Hop) of which he realizes the second album in 2015, he is also artistic director of the associative label GRiTCHE founded in 2006.
He is also interested in performing arts, cinema and soundtrack.
He was a member of the Preface Company, of the L'Oiseau-Monde Company, has worked with the Théâtre des Monstres since 2012 and with the Anxo Company since 2014.
He works solo for various creations and events and offers sound installations for various places (museums, exhibitions, etc.)
He released his first solo album in early 2008 tribute to music
twentieth century symphony and the second at the end of 2009 in duet with rapper Dr Larry ("ThoTho & Dr LARRY featuring le Hasard").
ThoTho, for his electronic solo project takes the name of 11 in 2012 after having trained in the field of mixing and mastering.
Hardworking and passionate, fascinated by imbalance and the ability to adapt, he strives to offer intelligent and original music, alive and always in motion. influenced as much by Stravinsky as by Hip Hop culture, world music, numbers, jazz or electronic music ...
BENOIT
JAYOT
Bass player
Bad student since his birth, avoiding diplomas with assiduity, he obtains against all expectations, in 1999, a CAP in cooking at the Lycée du Castel in Dijon. From setbacks to disappointments in this sector of activity, he understands, only after a certain time, that he is not made for that. He then decides to turn to his teenage passion: music.
Unfortunately, the beginnings are difficult, so he becomes a fishmonger to supplement his meager income. This dubious period, half man half fish, which was nothing disagreeable but during which he learned nothing of the performing arts, will last more than a year. But it is irrelevant.
Since then, he has become a double bassist, bassist and banjoist in several musical groups (Urgo et les Straps, La Peau du Zouk, L'Épicerie Quartet, Oblique ...). He has composed music for shows with different companies (Cie Sky de Sela, Théâtre des Monstres, Théâtre de Ume, Cie Tintinabule. Cie des Gens, Cie Manie, Cie Contrepoints.fr,…). He is also an actor with the Théâtre Rouge (mask, speechless), the Cie des Gens (classical and contemporary texts) and the Cie En Attendant ... (young audiences).
JULIAN
PIANETTI
Drummer
The ultimate drummer in the region, flagship of the Oblique dream-team, Julien® looks like a human being in every way.
Created in 1982, it is the result of the latest generation of excellent rhythmicians from the Pianetti © brand: the latest advances in deep learning, combined with the teaching received at the jazz department of the Dijon conservatory, today give it a extraordinary power.
It accelerates very little! Contrary to the old models of invoice more "rock'n'roll", certainly of a robustness in any test, but much less constant.
overclockable up to 260 bpm, without any overheating: Julien® shows all its potential in the fever of high tempi.
Thanks to its 2 62mm sensors located on the sides of its main processor, it is almost able to recognize and identify almost all the notes of certain ranges.
It can adapt its sound volume to its environment: all the instructions such as "piano" or "pianissimo" and even "diminuendo" have been added to its database
Julien® is versatile: he is also a graphic designer (he joins the association of the JazzClub Clermontois for which he creates the posters for the Festival Off each year)
It has dozens of words in the French language and it can interact live with its users! He provides answers adapted to the situations he encounters, such as "yes" or "no" or even "thirst!"
They have tested it and recommend it: groups iltika, Pourvuxadur, Hyperion, Delo, Le Grand Accord, Amaria Trio, musicians Gaspard Baradel, David Fontaine, and drummer Josselin Hazard.
PIERRE-OLIVIER
FERNANDEZ
Composer
Pierre-Olivier began learning the violin at the age of 6 under the constraint of his parents, he successively failed in music theory, deciphering, writing and ensemble practices. His classic course was ultimately aborted: he was dismissed from the CNR in Dijon in 1996.
After a long period of procrastination he tries to take an interest in traditional North African and Indian music, tries to use his violin differently and ventures to practice other instruments. Then follows a series of setbacks on the saxophone, a fiasco on the guitar and a bitter disappointment on the Mandingo percussion.
By evolving according to uncertainty, a certain form of luck and fortuitous encounters, he manages to perform alongside artists such as Daniel FERNANDEZ, Bastien LALLEMANT, Yves JAMAIT, Albin de la SIMONE, BABX, Seb MARTEL or JP NATAF.
He accidentally joined the Cie du Théâtre des Monstres, Cie Manie and Cie Service Public of François CHATTOT. He is introduced to formations like Iltika, Hyperion, Damien SAINT LOUP, or Urban Quintet ... and succeeds (to a certain extent) in composing for the orchestra of the CRR Dijon and Oblique.
He accompanies singer Linda DE SUZA in the show Carte postale du Portugal. The tour is interrupted after only five performances.
Pierre-Olivier says today that he plays the oud.
THE 40 MUSICIANS
Oblique is an amateur orchestra, you will find in our ranks students, intermittents, doctors, old people, young people ... In short! Everything that makes the strength of a group!
Piano / keyboards
Thomas RENT
Low
Benoît JAYOT
Drums
Julien PIANETTI
Violin
Anna BERTRAND
Jeremiah PAGLIARIN
Pierre-Olivier FERNANDEZ
Fanny SAUVIN
Mireille NAMURA
Diane PERCIE DU SERT
Marion LEUNENS
Laur-Antonin FERNANDEZ
Christine SINAPI
Caroline GAUTIER
Alto
Antoine CARLIER
Marion GAUVRIT
Thibault HELIOT
Evariste DALLER
Cello
Florent MASCRET
Cecilia LEROUGE
Marion LUCAS
Fanny SKRZYPSKI
Victor BLATRIX
Bass
Elise EGEA
Jean PASSEGAND
Jean-Philippe CHARLES
Flute
Thaddée DANCER
Anne GILLET
Oboe
Agat he POURADIER DUTEIL
Sarah LANGLAIS
Clarinet
Emmanuel VIGREUX
Agnes THOEN
Trumpet
Christelle FAJOT
Antoine BAUP
Trombone
Alain DOUHERET
Florence BORG
Hugo Chaudesaigues
Horn
Guillaume LAMOUR
Jules FIMBEL
Arnaud ROUSSELLE
Tuba
Thibault DELAREUX
Timpani
Albin THOMAS
Harp
Yana PARAMONOVA
"... But if it was first the egg, then who would have laid it? No, it has to be the other way around ..."
Thibault
We work with them ...
and vice versa
Because after all, it's not just musicians in life:
All those with whom we have worked, who have helped us, repaired, supported and above all supported!
Sound management
Robin mory
Jonas Cathoz
Photographers
Sidi N'aim
Vincent Rent
Guillaume Chenneby
Sound advice / web production
Gauthier Aubé
Our partners
