Interviews

‘Polyphonic Awareness’: Michaël Attias Speaks

June 7, 2019 When he was a child, saxophonist Michaël Attias had what one could categorize as an auditory hallucination while in bed with a fever. “Suddenly, I began hearing several different kinds of music happening all at once,” Attias remembers. “It was an amazing feeling, as if all boundaries had dissolved and the walls…

Interview in Citizen Jazz

June 2, 2019 Difficile de trouver personnage plus central que Michael Attias dans le monde du jazz et des musiques improvisées. Il travaille depuis plus de 15 ans avec Tony Malaby, Paul Motian ou Jean-Brice Godet. Il a étudié avec Braxton et joué avec Motian. Il se partage entre les États-Unis et l’Europe. Si l’expression…

Critical Studies in Improvisation: “Réflexions personnelles sur les liens et les ruptures de lien entre l’improvisation musicale, le langage, et la notion d’identité”

April 9, 2016 Abstract: L’improvisateur est un Etranger Absolu de la musique. Il peut parler toutes les langues et les hors-champs de la langue, bruits, cris, chuchotements, s’identifier aux bruissements du monde, se découvrir un devenir minéral, végétal, animal. Mais de langue propre, sauf par parti-pris idéologique, il n’en a aucune. Ou plutôt, c’est dans…

Jazz Right Now Artist Feature: Saxophonist Michaël Attias

July 9, 2015 This month [July 2015], New York is being treated to six exciting performances by master alto saxophonist Michael Attias. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see all that this artist has to offer. The centerpiece of the month is a four-night residency at Ibeam, book-ended by two performances at other venues. These…

All About Jazz – Interview by Celeste Sunderland

September 30, 2007 Paris has always been a haven for musicians. In the late 1980s, a stream of jazz greats passed through the bar at Alan Silva’s music school, where saxophonist Michaël Attias manned the tap. “I remember pouring [saxophonist] Frank Wright a beer two weeks before he died,” he recalled. “Sunny Murray, Jerome Cooper,…