French classically-trained pianist Sophie Agnel escaped jazz for its too-strict treatment of harmony and timbre and now she is one of the most fascinating free improvisers. She plays the piano in the most unconventional and radical ways. Often, she stands up and plays the whole piano – keyboard, strings and lid board, linking the inside and the outside and reworking the prepared piano techniques imagined by John Cage in the field of contemporary music, and expanding her sonic palette with objects (fish tins, ping pong balls, wooden blocks) that transform the piano into a surreal, sensual and
