Maxime Denuc - Elevations (met Kris Verdonck)

French-Belgian minimalist composer Maxime Denuc creates a mobile pipe organ that can be played with laptop/midi. The instrument will be built by iconic Kempen-based organ builders Decap and will serve as the main instrument for installations and live concerts. After his praised album Nachthorn (performed at this year’s Rewire and Intonal festivals, a.o.), he will also compose new music for the organ. Denux will collaborate with renowned Belgian theatre director and artist Kris Verdonck for the (light) scenography.

Concept & composition: Maxime Denuc
Dramaturgy & scenography: Kris Verdonck
Co-production: A Two Dogs Company – Brussels (BE), STUK Leuven (BE), RING-Scène Périphérique, Toulouse (FR) – Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (FR) – Centre Henri Pousseur, Liège (BE).

Maxime Denuc is a composer of electronic music from Brussels. He was co-founder of Plapla Pinky, a duo known for their atypical approach of club music, somewhere between rave, baroque and contemporary music. They released several albums and were invited to play in clubs and on festivals like Sonar (ES), Villette Sonique (FR), Club Metro Kyoto (JP), Les Siestes Electroniques (FR) or Today's Art (NL).

In recent years, Maxime’s solo work focuses on church organs. In 2020 he released Solarium, an organ work for sunrise, on the Belgian Vlek label. Two years later he presented Nachthorn, a new LP for MIDI church organ. The record was met with tons of praise, including from Boomkat, who put it in their 2022 top 10 album list. Music from the record was also used as the soundtrack for Chanel’s 2023 spring & summer Haute Couture show.

Next to activities as a composer, Maxime Denuc works in performing arts and is active as a researcher. In 2019 he graduated from EHESS in Paris in ‘Theories and Practices of Language and Arts’.