Camille Émaille

Camille Émaille is a French percussionist and improviser from the Mercantour region in the Alpes-Maritimes. She studied at the conservatories of Nice and Strasbourg before continuing in contemporary music and improvisation at the Musik-Akademie Basel with Christian Dierstein and Fred Frith.

Her practice is strongly physical and focused on the material qualities of sound. She works across solo performance, free improvisation, written music and interdisciplinary projects, and has collaborated in formations including OXKE FIXU, Le UN, OTTO and Escargot.