(Athens, 1980)


Ilan Manouach is a multidisciplinary artist, with a focused interest in the printed medium, and works actively as a musician and publisher. He lives between Athens and Brussels. He has been playing and releasing music with different line-ups. Primarily Balinese Beast, a duo with a cut-up approach to improvisation with a steady album production since 2010, Glacial, an eclectic elevator music mix of techno and jazz and Wry, a free improv trio alongside piano player Agustí Fernandez. He has a vivid interest in sound art mainly with a field recording web-based diary at the heart of the Greek tourist industry (vacantgreece.com), an ongoing in situ research and aural documentation of an abandoned, deserted hotel complex on the Attic seaside and the elaboration of a sound cartography of various archaeological spaces in Greece. He has traveled extensively for exhibitions, workshops, talks and concerts (Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Finland, Austria, Turkey, Brazil, USA, Mexico, Canada).

http://wrytrio.bandcamp.com/