Talk
Laurence Cousseau | postdoctoral researcher in behavioural ecology (UGent), jazz flautist
Through a research-creation project combining contemporary jazz, behavioural ecology and bioacoustics, Laurence Cousseau explores the links between the vocalisations of social birds – viewed as forms of collective organisation based on real-time adjustment – and jazz. She examines how the vocalisations of the placid bulbul, a social bird found in cloud forests, can inspire new approaches to musical improvisation and sound perception.
Laurence Cousseau is a postdoctoral researcher in behavioural ecology at Ghent University, where she studies social behaviour of birds. She is also a jazz flautist, trained at Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, and performs with various jazz and improvised music ensembles in Belgium and abroad. In 2026, she was awarded a FRArt grant, which she is dedicating to a research-creation project exploring the links between musical improvisation and social organisation of animals.
Session: The stakes of artistic research
Venue: Kanal Box 2
Time: 10:15 – 10:40
Duration: 25′
Language: French
