Founded in 1996 by Didier Aschour, Dedalus (Didier Aschour, guitar; Amélie Berson, flute; Vincent Bouchot, voice;
Cyprien Busolini, viola; Eric Chalan, double bass;
Denis Chouillet, piano;
Stéphane Garin, percussion;
Thierry Madiot, trombone; Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, saxophone; Christian Pruvost, trumpet; Silvia Tarozzi, violin; Fabrice Villard, clarinet; Deborah Walker, cello) is a contemporary music ensemble based in Toulouse and associated with the
GMEA - Centre National de Création Musicale of Albi-Tarn. Dedalus is a champion of free instrumentation scores from the experimental contemporary music scene, and is organized as a collective in which arrangements, orchestrations and performances are developed in common. Its repertoire includes works by classics of minimalism (
Christian Wolff,
Phill Niblock,
Frederic Rzewski, Tom Johnson,
Moondog or
Philip Glass), composers of the Wandelweiser movement (Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger or Jürg Frey), independent composers (Pascale Criton, Peter Ablinger, Jo Kondo,
Luc Ferrari), and commissions to a new generation of composers (Catherine Lamb,
Jean-Luc Guionnet,
Sébastien Roux).
