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PENDULUM
Benoît Delbecq / Peter Bruun / Jonas Westergaard ​

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The trio of Benoît Delbecq (piano), Jonas Westergaard (bass), and Peter Bruun (drums) explores music as a space for shared presence rather than linear progression. Rooted in deep improvisational trust and compositional openness, their interplay draws on elements of confluence, attunement, and resonance— gestures in gravity, allowing for balance, elegance and fluidity. In this formation the musicians may use pendulums placed on stage — a simple but radical gesture suggested by pianist Benoit Delbecq. These moving weights create a shifting sense of pulse that provides both players and listeners with a new elasticity of time, inviting them into the groove as one might enter a dance. The result of the whole project is a liberating framework for improvisation, a fresh space for interaction within the classic piano–bass–drums trio format. The trio of Benoît Delbecq (piano), Jonas Westergaard (bass), and Peter Bruun (drums) explores music as a space for shared presence rather than linear progression. Rooted in deep improvisational trust and compositional openness, their interplay draws on elements of confluence, attunement, and resonance— gestures in gravity, allowing for balance, elegance and fluidity. The piano trio may use pendulums placed on stage — a simple, but radical gesture. These moving weights create a shifting sense of pulse that provides both players and listeners with a new elasticity of time, inviting them into the groove as one might enter a dance. The result of the whole project is a liberating framework for improvisation, a fresh space for interaction within the classic piano–bass–drums trio format. Benoit Delbecq, Jonas Westergaard and Peter Bruun treat music less as a straight line than as a shared field of presence. Trusting in both improvisation and compositional fragments, may they be leaning on scores or graphics, they draw on fleeting harmonies, resonances and points of convergence to craft soundscapes with their own gravity — music that breathes, sways and creates new kinds of beats.

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PENDULUM Trio KONCEPT III - melodic example - Autonomous Examination
WDB ::: Koncept II
WDB Trio Open improvisation
WDB Trio KONCEPT I - melodic example - Autonomous Examination - one bar

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