TAPETRONIC / Auto-reverse (fr)
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"Si tu aimes le mp3, tu aimeras la cassette"
Tapetronic allias Alexis MALBERT, détourne, recycle et transforme depuis 1999 des cassettes audio et autres vieux magnétophones pour en faire des machines sonores futuristes toutes plus incroyables les unes que les autres (le ruban parlant, le velo-phonographe etc..).

Ses performances sont le fruit de multiples manipulations et faites directement sur des dispositifs mécaniques préparés, produisant une musique curieuse, scratchée et rythmée.

PRUDEEFF (fr)

Machines and lights: Pierre Gordeeff
Saxophones: Matthieu Prual

EN The machines manufactured by Pierre Gordeeff create hybrids connections between mechanic and organic. Rizhomes of cables are tangled in motors, microphones, toys, toothbrushes, brushes ... and come to life by the fingers of their recyclor. Broken or damaged, many objects lose their status as "useful" or functional and become waste ... or meet Pierre Gordeef to create a strange dance of sound and light. This sound of drones is an opportunity to work with the saxophonist Matthieu Prual and
approaching improvisation.

DE Die von Pierre Gordeeff hergestellten Maschinen schaffen hybride Verbindungen, die einerseits mechanisch und andererseits organisch sind. Die Rizhome sind verschlungen in Motoren, Mikrophonen, Spielzeug, Zahnbürsten und Bürsten und erwecken zu neuem Leben durch Pierre Gordeeff. Kaputt oder zerstört, viele Objekte sind nicht mehr funktional, werden unbrauchbar und zu Abfall oder werden von Pierre Gordeef wiederverwertet. Er schafft neuartige, schräge Kreationen aus Licht und Ton. Der Ton der Dronen ist eine Möglichkeit mit dem Saxophonist Matthieu Prual zusammenzuarbeiten und sich der Improvisation zu nähern.

FR Les machines construites par Pierre Gordeeff tissent des connexions hybrides entre le mécanique et l'organique. Des rizhomes de câbles enchevetrés dans les moteurs, des micros, des Gi-Joes, des brosses à dents, des pinceaux...(et tout objet dans lequel il est possible de faire un trou) s'animent sous les doigts de leur créateur et créent une étrange danse de sons et de lumière.
Les sons de drônes, mixés aux sonorités indus ou inuït donnent à Matthieu Prual et ses saxophones l'opportunité de travailler avec des vocabulaires musicaux de tous poils.

www.myspace.com/prudeeff

http://www.pierregordeeff.com

http://www.myspace.com/matthieuprual

Seijiro MURAYAMA (jp)

Seijiro MURAYAMA is a  Japanese percussionist, drummer. He worked with Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Keiji Haino, KK Null between 1980 and 1998.
Since 1999 he lives and works in France and plays in different formats: -Solo with a snare drum and a cymbal (amplified or acoustic), sometimes with a drum kit. -Duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet (alto sax), Eric Cordier (amplified hardy gardy), Stéphane Rive (soprano sax), Tim Blechmann (computer), Didier Lasserre (percussion). -Trio with Thierry Madiot (bass trombone etc) and Pascal Battus (prepared guitar) -Off-cells: with Taku Unami (guitar), Uta Kawasaki (analog synthesizer), Takahiro Kawaguchi (objects)
He collaborated with some contemporary dance/theater/performance groups as a composer-musician. His artistic principal is especially to work with the idea of the interdisciplinarity between music and other disciplines of art: dance, video, paintings, photos, literature etc: approaching ?a stranger? to do something constructive with them. In the same way, he collaborates with musicians, composers, and sound artists: Pascale Criton, Mattin, soundworm, Toshimaru Nakamura, Toshiya Tsunoda, Robin Hayward, Axel Dörner, Klaus Filip,Thomas Tilly, Benjamin Thigpen, Didier Aschour, Damien Grange, Tomaz Grom, Ntoko.

300mA (fr)
www.myspace.com/300ma

300 mA is duo composed by Damien Grange (Chewbacca, temperature, 80 dates, Bronzy Mac Dada ...) and Super Jean-Francois Plomb Lead (Jiflure, Pied Gauche). Sound artist, SJFP build in own instrument using small electro mechanical engines.
Damien Grange, sings, plays harmonica, trumpet, pocket, and Cumbus.
The result is a kind of cabaret sound improvised blues songs from dilapidated and noisy industrial trance.

Sketches by Germain Schenkel

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE (ca)
www.totemcontemporain.com

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE takes an intuitive approach to creating music, learning through concrete experimentation with sound. By actively listening to each sound, he strives to understand its reality and its underlying structure. His music is the result of working closely with the raw materials of sound. These sounds come from the everyday environment or from both traditional and invented instruments, with no form of hierarchy. Drawing on this diversity of sound sources, Jean-François works in multiple musical languages?from instrumental to electroacoustic?and also ventures at times into the exploration of random and improvised sounds.
Along with his activities as a composer, Jean-François has been developing and making musical instruments that produce unconventional sounds.

WOLFF(usa)

www.wolffandtuba.com

Duo composed of Brian Wolff (Tuba) and Steve Garofano (drum), they create a dense landscape of sounds, layering loops which are generated by, with, through, and on the tuba. The resulting music is both strange and accessible at the same time: avant garde and yet deeply founded in traditional song structure. You could call what Wolff creates electronic industrial tuba rock music or you could simply say that you?ll see something you?ve never heard before...
This session is an adaptation of the track Drowning .

Das Duo bestehend aus Brian Wolff (Tuba) und Steve Garofano (Schlagzeug), erzeugt durch das kunstvolle Loopen der Klänge die es einer Tuba entlockt, eine dichte Klanglandschaft. Das Ergebnis ist einerseits schwierig und sperrig andererseits aber auch intuitiv zugänglich: Avantgarde und traditionell zugleich. Man könnte sagen die Musik die Wolff erschaffen ist elektronischer, industrial Tubarock oder man könnte einfach sagen, soetwas hat man noch nie gehört.
Diese Session ist eine Adaption des Liedes: Drowning .

Thomas Begin(cn)

frere-contraire.com

Larsen Surf Mixing Board project is an oscillating  electro-mechanical system, based on the wiring of guitars strings and the membrane of their amp. This leads to a renewal of the principle of the feed-back phenomenon, Larsen Surf Mixing Board uses its own architecture to develop and maintain sonic schemes.

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