WHO ARE WE ?
The Vision Of Out Of
To promote world music through a wide variety of cultural and artistic activities, but also by the teaching of music.
Music with a capital “M” must be a universal language that facilitates communication between people. It should not be split into different styles but approached from a global point of view.
Out Of : A world of exchange and a place to meet for all those interested in other cultures; to foster intercultural dialogue, through musical perspectives and other artistic expressions, is our reason for playing; to create together both unique and diversiform harmony at concerts, music workshops and public gatherings.
World Music
World music stimulates the realm of the imagination and imparts new freedom of invention and artistic creation. It infuses Western musical language and its technical and aesthetic components with energizing new breath; bestows new energy to musical improvisation.
Of different origins, but united by our passion, we place our instruments and our musical universes at the service of global harmony; an unparalleled “instrumentarium” where Western sounds and oriental rhythms merge; where the dulcet voice of the Oud responds to the piano’s melody, to the hot breath of the saxophone; where oriental, Brazilian, Japanese and Jazzy influences intersect without ever colliding.
Out Of :
Music is for us a universal language facilitating communication between people.
The Musicians
Alex CLAPOTArtistic Direction
Artistic Direction Alex CLAPOT
The center's artistic director, Alex Clapot, holds a Certification degree for teaching in conservatories (an AC in 1975) and was granted an HC (Highest Category – 'Hors Classe') grade in 1994.
He was one of the first to create a jazz department in France, at the Conservatoire de Nȋmes, where for thirty years he has been in charge of percussion, oud, piano jazz and improvisation classes.
This "unconventional" musician, a great improviser, plays a variety of instruments, such as percussion, vibraphone and guitar.
He has continued to eliminate borders with his piano or his oud, connecting Schumann, Satie and Parker, connecting East and West.
He goes down side roads, roams and treks through other cultures. He studied law, classical Arabic and Japanese. His oriental music class at the Conservatoire de Nîmes' Spring Jazz Festival performed in the first part of Rabih Abu Khalil .
He performs regularly with: Yves DEFAGO (poet) and Alexandre SAUVAIRE (improvised music) as well as solo.
Marie Suzanne DurdanQuarter-tone soprano and tenor saxophone
Quarter-tone soprano and tenor saxophone Marie Suzanne Durdan
Marie Suzanne Durdan undertook a season of Classical Studies in Rouen (student of Michel de Villers) and in Champagne, alongside her medical activity.
She rejoined the National Conservatory of Nîmes' jazz and oriental music classes where she discovered, under the baton of Alex Clapot, a new approach to music that revolutionizes her performance on the saxophone. She encouraged her son to join this class which will soon fill him with a passion for music and lead him to a degree in musicology.
She directs an urban music band, performs with the jazz band Bikini Dynasty, as well as with the HANS GEORGE WORLD MUSIC band.
Marina TRODEPiano, claviers, oriental synth
Piano, claviers, oriental synth Marina TRODE
Marina Trode followed a season of classical studies at the Conservatoire National de Marseille with contemporary music and jazz studies at the Conservatoire National de Nîmes.
An active member of the group of contemporary claviers performers in the class of Pascale BERTHELOT, she joined the Conservatoire de Nîmes' jazz and oriental music classes.
From the start, to enrich her musical creations with classical influences, this talented composer joined Aline MARTEVILLE's classical piano class.
Invited to a Master Class of Yaron HERMAN, rising star of International Jazz, she recomposes one of her major works, enhancing her composition with subtle variations.
She is currently performing with the HG WORLD MUSIC band.
Music worlds of musicians
Once upon a time, 1 teacher and 2 students shared the same passion. By dint of enthusiasm and diligence, the students went too far too fast in their desire to be exceptionally successful.
The professor immediately became an artistic director and the students became musicians. He introduced them to his musical world, made up of jazz and oriental music. One brought his appetite for oriental rhythms, his compositions and the sweetness of his piano, while the other hastened to offer the hot breath of his sax, the original Jazzy opening.
Vowing never to obstruct Music, they formed the Out Of Group and started a long ballad throughout musical universes and wherever concerts willed them.