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After arriving in Paris in 2016, Antonin Pauquet obtained his DNSPM in jazz and improvised music at the Pôle SUp'93, having trained for three years with inspiring musicians such as Vincent Ségal, Julien Loureau, Magik Malik, Bojan Z and Francois Jeanneau. At the same time, he succeeded in entering the same establishment in classical double bass. Alternately studio musician (Pierre Alliot), sideman (Abajade, La Bachule, Ayinsk), and project leader (Parpaing), he moves fluidly from one role to another, from one aesthetic to another. Passionate about transmission in various forms, he also leads a career as a young pedagogue, at the Clichy Conservatory, as well as within the DEMOS orchestra of the Paris Philharmonic. The desire to experiment with new forms of teaching led him to create one of the first traditional music workshops in the Paris region. He has been playing since January 2021 on a Suitbass "SB21" built by the Charton workshop. His project Itération des Ondes is a challenging new repertory at the confluence of jazz, traditional and experimental music. A travel between aesthetics borders focused on repetitive items, heady melodies that evoke dance, trance and fantasy. With this atypical instrumental formation, the sounds are multifaceted, organic. The sound waves sail from the clarinet to the double bass, the viola responds to the cello and the flute, without constraints. The improvisation provokes dizzying impulses, and a sound material emerges, dense, free..