In 2021, Cie AirBlow is organizing the very first edition of the Brussels Body Music Festival, the first festival in Brussels to federate and raise awareness of Body Music practices.

Writing:

Gaspard has been writing poetry and songs steadily since the age of 12, and has developed a rich personal repertoire of slam and rap. He has been writing texts for numerous creations and leading writing workshops for different audiences for some fifteen years. He wrote the texts for the show "No Way Back", the show "Je suis libre hurle le ver luisant" by the théâtre des zygomars and Jean-Michel frère. He writes his own shows, "Pièces détachées" and "Possédés".

Trained in modern literature, communications and cultural mediation (with an emphasis on live performance), he has developed an original approach to teaching writing workshops, which he has taken forward through numerous training courses.

Rhythm and vocals :

A human beatboxer and vocalist with multiple and varied influences, his pedagogy crosses Dalcroze's corporal approach and Lecoq's creative approach (emeritus pedagogue of movement theater) applied to the sonic imagination. Trained at the Dalcroze Institute as a vocalist and rhythmicist, he has attended numerous voice workshops with Sylvie Storm, as well as exploring the technique of diaphonic singing, which he has been practicing assiduously for some fifteen years following a workshop with Nestor Kornblum (Association healing with sound ). He approaches sound healing and therapeutic work, and energetics via sound and rhythm.

He has also taken several courses on the taketina method. Gaspard has also followed the training course for rhythmic pedagogues offered by Arnould Massard (rythme.be). He regularly takes part in body percussion and human beatbox workshops, continuing to enrich his technical skills and keep abreast of developments in these disciplines.

He has built up a number of partnerships with different teachers, including Thierry Bluy, a body percussionist who is developing research into rhythm and therapy, and Lior Shoov, a vocalist and body percussionist who also explores clowning.

Nourished by all these influences and his many teaching experiences, he now offers a singular pedagogy based on body music (human beatbox, body drumming, and sung improvisations in a circle), in a variety of training formats for different audiences, focusing on musical creation with the body as sole instrument.

Drawing on all his experience, he has developed various training and intervention programs around circus, sound writing (rap and slam) and body music.

Workshops in schools and specialized schools:

He offers workshops combining body music and writing, and coaches the group right up to the performance, working on stage presence and theatricality. He has worked with schools on a number of occasions on introductory workshops or participatory projects culminating in the presentation of a show (numerous interventions in middle and high schools).

He works for a number of institutions, including Pierre de Lune (an association specializing in artistic activities in schools), La Générale d'imaginaire in Lille, L'ara in Roubaix, and the Cité de la musique in Paris.

He has also worked in prisons, and in 2018-19 he is officiating at the Beauvallon psychiatric hospital, where he is training art workshop leaders before working directly with patients to put on a show combining sound poetry and body music.

Training for guest musicians :

Artist-in-residence at the Loos conservatory from September 2014 to June 2015: training for teachers and artistic coordination of a project combining voice and body and vocal percussion presented in June 2015). Also artist-in-residence at the Lille Conservatory for the 2016-2017 season, he works with the team of guest musicians on beat box and bodydrumming pedagogy, and monitors various classroom projects.

He regularly trains musicians in vocal and body percussion. (CFMI Lyon, IUFM Lille, ARA Roubaix, PREAC Nord Pas de Calais, DAFOP, music schools, remua.be and jeunesses musicales in Belgium. He also teaches at the Marchiennes bridge academy and the Brussels circus school.

He was artist-in-residence at the Loos conservatory (near Lille) in 2015: training for teachers and artistic coordination of a project combining voice and body and vocal percussion. In 2017, Gaspard was an associate artist at the Lille conservatory: he trained the musicians involved in beat box and bodydrumming techniques, and provided artistic coordination for the end-of-year show performed at the Euroregional center for urban cultures in Lille.

Training for performing artists (musicians, dancers, actors, circus performers). Having evolved in the circus, theater and music fields, he also offers various training courses for performing arts practitioners, including circus artists (notably a program to develop musicality in juggling). For the past fifteen years, he has been a regular contributor to the Espace Catastrophe in Brussels, with various modules on juggling, rhythm, sound effects and human beatbox. He also offers training courses for performing artists (musicians, actors, circus performers, etc.).

Brussels:

For Espace Catastrophe, Brussels Circus School, Cirqu'conflex (social circus), LABO (movement theater school), for Remua.be, AKDT, and for other institutions such as Opéra de la Monnaie, MCCS Molenbeek and various schools. And on an occasional basis, for La chaufferie in Grenoble, for Cie générale d'imaginaire in Lille, for Cie saltimbanque in Luxembourg, as part of the Ouaga hip hop festival, and for the FARE circus school in Cambodia. For the Centre dramatique national Pierre de Lune and the Superstrat association (formerly Hostellerie de Pontempeyrat), and as part of the "Ruches théâtre" program organized by the Théâtre de l'Unité.

As part of the Brussels Body Music Festival 2021, Cie AirBlow organized a Body Music training course at FIRM Artlab and, in parallel with the festival, a training course in music without instruments at the Institut de Rythmique Jaques Dalcroze. Both of these courses were aimed at musicians working in schools and/or specialized environments.