I am a harpsichordist, guitarist, composer and researcher working between early music practices, experimental composition and trans*feminist epistemologies. I’m currently undertaking a PhD at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Matthieu Saladin and Catherine Deutsch. I am also a French-to-English translator specializing in contemporary music.

Based between Marseille and Paris, I work with period instruments in experimental capacities —such as microtonal organ and harpsichord, amplified clavichord, and mixed ensembles — on open compositions combining 16th-century experimentation into microtonality and improvisation with contemporary performance practice. Under the name of “Decomposition Studies”, this practice is being developed alongside research into queer phenomenology and trans*feminist notions of disorientation, the haptic, the oblique, and the asterisk (*), which themselves are brought under the term “Tonality*”.

I hold ABRSM Grade 8 in Harpsichord and Classical Guitar and studied composition at the University of Edinburgh and electroacoustic composition at the Marseille Conservatory. I graduated with MA in Open Creation (Improvisation) from the Hochschule für Musik, Basel, under Andrea Neumann and Caspar Johannes Walter, and completed a year of research in collaboration with the Music and Research department and Studio 31+, under the supervision of Johannes Keller. I’ve released music on Editions Wandelweiser, Creative Sources, Insub. Records, Tombed Visions, and play with the Insub Meta Orchestra. I also translate texts for French new music publishers Maison ONA and others.

Various recordings and releases:

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Contact: ejpwilliams [at] protonmail [dot] com