The space between
common ground for uncommon ideas
About en rapport
En Rapport creates live performance where music, image and text meet through a dynamic interplay of composition and improvisation.
Working between the UK and Japan — and increasingly across wider international contexts — we bring artists together to explore the space between disciplines, cultures, and ways of thinking — where difference becomes dialogue, and collaboration becomes form.
Our projects bring together musicians, visual artists, poets and digital practitioners — artists who are highly developed in their own fields, yet open to processes that challenge and extend their established ways of working.
Each work creates a space where composed material and live, responsive improvisation interact — from tightly structured forms to more open, exploratory performance.
Across these works, En Rapport develops a distinctive approach to collaboration — where composition provides a framework, and improvisation becomes a way of navigating relationships between artists, media, and cultural perspectives in real time.
RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS
Ayatori
A dialogue between sound and image, combining composed audio-visual works with extended live improvisation between saxophone and visual performance.
Yuriko Takagi - photography, video, V’jay Ed Jones - saxaphones,composition, electronics
Lotus Code
An expanded ensemble in which free improvisation plays a central role, with composed material, live interaction, and digital systems forming a fluid and evolving performance environment.
Ed Jones - saxaphones; Toku - flugelhorn, voice; Rebecca Nash - piano; Takashi Sugawa - bass; Federico Reuben - digital sound; Hannah Copley - poetry; Yuriko Takagi - visual
No One’s an Island
An acoustic trio blending jazz and Japanese folk traditions through original compositions, reconfigured for piano, bass, voice and shamisen, and shaped through subtle, responsive improvisation.
Kit Downes - piano; Emi Macabe - shamisen, voice; Thomas Morgan - bass
Each project forms part of an evolving international network of artists and ideas — a foundation at the heart of En Rapport since its formation in 2018 by Keith Michael and Asako Taguchi, and a wider-reaching aim that continues to take shape through each idea, experiment, and project.