Clémence Quélennec

Clémence Quélennec (France, 1991) is a music producer. After 8 years touring with the French rock band La Femme, Clémence decided to move to Morocco. She spent 4 years there, recharging her batteries in nature and reconnecting with herself, discovering Ableton, composing an EP (Dune Solitaire released in 2019) with her computer, her keyboard and the songs of nature. Inspired by this new environment, she is developing an ambient project that she sees as an artistic ecosystem in its own right: Ajasphère. She composes around twenty atmospheric, hypnotic tracks, which she releases every new and full moon. Each track is accompanied by an animation created from her illustrations, which she feeds with the landscapes that surround her and her imagination. In 2022, she returns to France, where she accompanies Jacques on stage, on keyboards. She also explores acoustic ambient music with the Acoustic Ambient Consort, where she plays harp. She is currently concentrating on a new ambient EP to be released in late 2023.

 

In residence at Villa Medici, Clémence Quélennec will lay the foundations for a project consisting of a collection of drawings accompanied by music: a surrealist audio-visual herbarium detailing the characteristics of a para-plant kingdom of her own invention, detailed in an imaginary language. Her research will focus on the study of the vital necessities that justify the structures of living beings, so that she in turn can create an infinite number of variations. She will make audio recordings in the gardens of Rome, in order to define a musical identity for this universe.