Founded in 2007 in Paris and active until 2020, with the aim of exploring new forms of musical writing, expressivity and modernity, Unmapped has been imagined as a laboratory, centered around advanced technology and human interactivity.

Unmapped found its own raison d’être both in performance and improvisation, through a close interaction between instrumental and electroacoustic gestures, and with an open set of possible musical transformations.

Working between improvisation and composition without setting them apart, Unmapped developed its own poetic universe, characterized by abstract narrations, disrupted elements and tangled disorder of living systems.

A flexibly-sized ensemble, between 2010 and 2020 Unmapped has been constituted by eleven permanent members, all being both composers and instrumentalists. They were often joined by guest musicians and artists (architects, video‐makers, film and theater directors, dancers and choreographers, visual artists, plasticians, etc.), from all over the world.

Unmapped has been taking part in concerts, festivals, interactive installations and other events implying music and/or digital arts throughout France (Instants Chavirés, Montreuil / Olympic Café & Jardin d’Alice, Paris / Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis / FIMU, Belfort), Germany (Altes Finanzamt, Berlin), Belgium, Italy (Tempo Reale Festival, Florence), Spain (ESMUC Auditori & Niu Art space, Barcelona), Portugal, Greece (Medea Electronique’s Electric Nights, Athens), USA (Ghost in the Instrument Festival, Columbia University, New York), China (Electronic Music Week, Shanghai).

Members (2010-2020)

Julien Vincenot (laptop/keyboards)
Jérémy Labelle (laptop/turntable/analogic saturation)
Thomas Vittek (acoustic & digital accordion)
William Goutfreind (bassoon/laptop)
Olavo Peres Vianna (laptop/guitar)
Andrea Gozzi (electric guitar)
João Fernandes (laptop)
Gabriel Peraza Peraza (guitar/laptop/synth)
Kevin Gironnay (laptop/bass guitar)
Emanuele Battisti (piano/keyboards)
Dionysios Papanicolaou (violin/mandolin/guitar/laptop)

Former members & guests

Sinan Mansuroglu (visuals)
Juan Pablo Maran Ferro (bass/guitar)
Étienne Pavie (cello)
Marius Courard (drums)
Jeff Suzda (saxophone/loop recorder)
Joao Gonzales (maracas/steel pan/other percussions/loop recorder)
Cécile Duval (voice)
Raphaël Vens (laptop)
Melisa Yener (voice)

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