Synapses is the meeting of the Belgian flute player Line Daenen and the French artist Christophe Grout. The band started in 2017 around the work made by Rudy Romanesky and Christophe Grout on DIY “Baschet” style sound structures. These are made with metal, springs, strings, and crystal.
The duo is incorporating the wild, deep sounds of the structure into the pure tone of the flute to create a new musical universe inspired by ambient music, instant composition, and free improvisation (Brian Eno, Lustmord, Joëlle Léandre). They add analogic pedals to the set to create a hybrid, organic music made of acoustic and electronic sounds. Synapses goes from abysmal to aerial soundscapes, mixing the diverse personalities and musical backgrounds of the two musicians.
Inspired by “aleatory” cycles that you can find in nature, such as the rhythm of a river or the flow of the wind, but also more urban elements such as the flow of a crowd or the rhythm of the cars, Synapses works on an intuitive transcription of all these common elements in our daily life.