Clément Vercelletto : Portrait

Clément Vercelletto, with an organ in his hands

par Olivier Lamm

Armed with an instrument of his own creation, the Engoulevent, experimental musician Clément Vercelletto achieves unique, fundamentally contemporary sounds.

It took many detours for Vercelletto to arrive at the Engoulevent. Growing up near Lyon, this child of the arts—his father ran a theater company—explored every musical avenue available to him. He started with the clarinet under the influence of his father, who dabbled in the saxophone, then moved on to Malinké percussion and “African traditional music” at the National School of Music, Dance, and Dramatic Arts in Villeurbanne, followed by electroacoustic music at the conservatory, and eventually found himself in free party scenes. “Often, I didn’t finish these programs. My culture also comes a lot from squats, free parties, noise, chaos, the kind of stuff you do for free.”

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