Delphine Dora (FR)

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Audio Foundation presents..Delphine Dora (France)Tamagawa (France)Pumice (NZ)Friday 20 November 2026Presales UTR: $20 + BFDoor sales: $30Members freeDelphine Dora is a prolific pianist and improviser from France. An eclectic explorer of language andsound, Delphine is one of the most curious and surprising souls on the European avant-folk scene, capable of forging a musical universe in constant metamorphosis, arranged between several languages (English, French, German, Russian, imaginary languages) and genres (minimalism, improvisation, electroacoustic, folk).Curator of the Wild Silence label, with which she has proposed other atypical experimenters (Powerdove, Sophie Cooper, Jackie McDowell), Delphine Dora has recorded much of her music on audio cassettes in very limited, hand-picked editions. While the best-known of her orchestrated albums is L’inattingible (2020), considered by Julia Holter to be one of the best records of the decade, there are several dozen titles to her name as well as scattered collaborations, from a duet with Marina Gusina on the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva in Russian to noisy and avant-garde projects (playing with Andrew Chalk, Josephine Foster, Keiji Haino and Valentina Magaletti, among others).A self-taught visual artist and reader of rare sensitivity, she has devoted entire albums to translating the poetic works of her favourite poets into music: Sylvia Plath (Conversation among the ruins, 2013), Kathleen Raine (Eudaimon, 2018), Ingeborg Bachmann (Du…

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