TranseFusion 4 brings together four passionate sonic explorers: Isa*Belle Vrammout, Stéphane Kozik, Christian Leroy, and Gauthier Keyaerts. Together, they form a unique quartet born from a shared desire: to pay vibrant homage to Philippe Franck, a major figure in the transcultural arts landscape, who passed away in January 2025.
In this singular creation, TranseFusion 4 carries forward Philippe Franck’s legacy by weaving a delicate dialogue between traditional instruments and contemporary sound textures. Singing bowls, hurdy-gurdy, piano, and other acoustic sources intertwine with electronic elements to offer an immersive experience—rooted in tradition yet resolutely oriented toward the future.
More than a concert, it is a genuine invitation to a sensory journey, where modernity and memory meet to give rise to a deep, enchanting, and captivating harmony.
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Isa*Belle has practiced holistic and sound massage for around twenty years, integrating these experiences into her artistic approach centered on the body and the senses in all their dimensions. She has taken part in various short films and performances, collaborating with several visual and sound artists. Since 2005, she has worked closely with Paradise Now (electronic processing, sound design, texts, and co-conception) on a number of installations and performances calling upon all the senses, inviting the spectator to engage in unprecedented sensory experiences within the world of contemporary art.
Stéphane Kozik, a sound artist, visual artist, and musician for the past twenty years, Stéphane Kozik creates audiovisual performances, sound installations, and short films. His multidisciplinary, sensory, and poetic approach places sound at the heart of his narratives, reversing the traditional relationship between image and music. Inspired by cinema—where sound is often secondary—he invents a “cinema for the ears,” in which images and storytelling serve the sound. By continually developing new sonic devices, he explores innovative ways of composing, offering unique sound and visual imaginaries that question and reinvent our perception of reality.
Gauthier Keyaerts approaches music as a living, physical, and organic material. His universe, built on real-time sound sculpture and spatialization, is rooted in listening, intuition, and the relationship to the body. His creations unfold in many forms: concerts, performances, radio works, installations, interactive devices, albums, and site-specific interventions. His passion for image and literature inspires his artistic voice, revealing itself in his material-based videos and in collaborations with poets and artists such as Jean-Marc Desgent and Vincent Tholomé.
His works have been presented in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Taiwan, and Quebec.
Christian Leroy has established himself as one of Europe’s most creative composers during a career of over 40 years. He began very early by accompanying silent films, exploring the silent film repertoire (Nanook of the North, Dracula, The Last Laugh, Tokyo Chorus, Sunrise, Tabu…) as an improviser across more than 200 films. Beyond his compositions for silent cinema, Christian Leroy has written around fifty scores for animated films, documentaries, auteur cinema—selected and awarded at the world’s major international festivals. His works have been released on Polydor, Igloo, EMI, Gega New, and Cristal Records.