Jacques

electronic music and improv/paris
interview by NICOLAS BECKER
portrait by JONAS UNGER 

One day my friend Sébastien Devaud [the producer, composer, and DJ also known as Agoria] said to me about Jacques: “This dude, he’s gonna floor you. He carries his whole life around in a backpack, and he totally improvises his electro shows. He has the audience bring stuff in and samples it on the spot. Then he adds keyboards, guitar, and vocals. And then there’s his haircut. It’s actually worse than yours.”

The kid has already set up a bunch of squats, an artists’ colony, a record label, and a recording studio. He seems completely in control of his own creativity. It’s all about improv, the unexpected, the absurd, risk, free-thinking, sound engineering, sound effects, travel, field recording, Gilles Deleuze’s theory of the fold, quantum physics, and so on. My dad used to play piano at home….