Barely Minimal
Programme notes for the concert Barely Minimal. ----- Long Live the Void! Ilan Volkov pushes the limits of minimalism, with live electronics and the voice as a catalyst.
Jean-Luc Plouvier
piano
Jean-Luc Plouvier was born in 1963. After studying piano and chamber music, he concentrated on twentieth and twenty-first century music mostly, both on piano and synthesizer, with a few forays into the art of spoken word. For the past 25 years, he has worked with Ensemble Ictus, of which he is artistic coordinator. Jean-Luc Plouvier is a member of the Cinematek team in Brussels, where he has accompanied silent films since the age of 18. He writes incidental music for choreographers and directors such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Nicole Mossoux, Iztok Kovač, Myriam Saduis and Johanne Saunier. Since 2024, he has been working on a biography of Fausto Romitelli, and as a teacher at the INSAS film school in Brussels.
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Barely Minimal · 04.10.2025 · Brussels Philharmonic LAB @ Flagey
Music stripped to its essence—where sound meets silence, and silence becomes sound. In a world full of noise, minimalism creates space for stillness, and that’s where its power lies.
With this programme, Ilan Volkov questions the idea of ‘minimal’: what do we label as such, and what else—seen from another angle—might also be considered minimal? An experimental evening with electronics and voice as key elements.
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