After 5 years spent exploring improvised and noise guitar, Xavier Mussat opened a parenthesis without his usual instrument. He recorded abstract sound ambiances to be used as background sounds to accompany the work of his students during the intuitive drawing classes he gives. Here simplicity prevailed : he used the cheap internal microphone of his computer and several objects (bowls, balls, crumpled paper, table, prepared banjo), as well as remixed sounds taken from videos of snowy landscapes. Experimenting with the austerity of a minimalist aesthetic, he extracted 4 tracks from these raw textures and materials.
John Krausbauer (US) et Kaori Suzuki (US/JP) proposent une musique mêlant voix, électronique, et percussion. Leur travail s’inspire d’un intérêt commun pour la musique spirituelle et ecstatique, ainsi que pour les pratiques d’avant-garde. Basée sur des sons longs, des accordages alternatifs, la longue durée et l’endurance physique, leur musique explore les paramètres et possibilités des expériences de types psychotropiques plutôt que le strictement musical.
(The Lab, San Francisco. 2018)
John Krausbauer is a composer/multi-instrumentalist/improviser based in Oakland, CA. A long time purveyor of the ur-drone and trance-psychedelia, his work involves audio transmissions for TOTAL/immersive sensory experience. Transcendence through repetition, duration, alternate tunings, maximum volumes, and (often) stroboscopic lighting.
He has performed and presented his music in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Japan, in a multitude of settings – from basements, sidewalks, and rock clubs to colleges, churches, and art museums.
Over 20 recordings of his have been released on independent labels in the US, Europe, and Japan. His group and solo music can be found on Important, Beta-Lactam Ring, ANTS, Fabrica, Debacle, Autumn, and a number of other international labels.
His current music projects include the Ecstatic Music Band (a 10+ member-collective of strings players); solo music for voice, violin, and synth; his collaboration with partner, Kaori Suzuki, with bells, voices, strings, tape; the Minimalist psych-punk group Night Collectors; his systems-based phase compositions; and ongoing duo collaborations with Kentuckian steel bodied resonator guitar player R. Keenan Lawler, NYC bagpipe player David Watson, and Tokyo based guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama.
Kaori Suzuki is a Tokyo-born music maker/composer residing in Oakland, CA. Her solo music involves electroacoustic sound technologies, intensely high register electronics, acoustic instruments and tape, seeking to create heightened listening states.
She has toured and performed her music in various venues across the U.S., Japan, Mexico, and Canada. From 2009-2015 she ran her electronic instrument building project, Magic Echo Music, collaborating with musicians on making custom interfaces and instruments for live performance (ASTRO, Mood Organ, Manuel Knapp). Her feedback/synthesizer recordings are found on Newsun (Sounds et al), and her release of a durational composition for very high frequencies, Conduit, is out on Second Editions (Berlin).
She currently plays drums in the Oakland based Minimalist psych-punk group, Night Collectors, and collaborates with partner, John Krausbauer, on voice, amplified strings, bells, and immersive light/sound happenings.
Ce duo, composé de Sig Valax et Nicolas Tourney, propose une expérience singulière d’écoute musicale dans le noir.
Plongeant scène et public dans une obscurité intégrale, Seuil Optique élabore des transmissions électroniques éthérées, fabrique des drones qui oscillent entre bruitisme et voyage cinématique, sublime ces objets du quotidien que nos habitudes avaient rendu inaudibles. En bousculant les frontières entre l’écoute, la manipulation aveugle des machines et l’expérience immersive proposée au public, les deux musiciens recherchent de nouvelles pistes sonores. Cette recherche est aussi une exploration, en dialogue permanent avec les musicalités hybrides et la pratique d’instruments rares. Sur scène, ils utilisent des stratégies d’improvisation volontairement “ouvertes”, et s’autorisent après-coup des chemins différés dans la création radiophonique.
Lundi 13 mai 2019 Le Zorba 137 rue Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris 21H-23H PAF : participation libre
Co-organisé avec Doxa Esta et Le Zorba
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Duo Beat Keller & Werner Puntigam
Beat Keller (feedbacker guitar)
“Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader based in Winterthur, Switzerland and in Berlin. Beat Keller is amongst the important Swiss musicians in the field of experimental and improvised music. Through the exploration of extended playing techniques, guitar tunings and the use of an electric feedbacker guitar, he has developed a unique musical language. Beat Keller has played together with many major exponents of the Swiss and international scenes and performs regularly around the world at festivals and renowned concert venues. (…) Keller’s 10’s debut album won “Best Debut Release 2008 (worldwide)” awarded by the American magazine All About Jazz. Beat Keller is currently a member of the groups Cao-Keller-Siedl (VN, CH, AT), Rough Cave (CH), Bowee-Keller (CH), Tilo Weber’s Animate Repose (DE), Keller’s 10, Gunfire Orchestra (SA, NO, CH) as well as Jason Kahn // Beat Keller (US, CH).” https://beatkeller.com
Werner Puntigam (trombone)
“Freelancing multidisciplinary artist in the fields of music (composition & improvisation / trombone, conch shell, voice & noises), visual arts (photography, video & graphic-design) and interdisciplinary performances & audio-visual installations.
WP, the improvising and composing musician (trombone, conch shell, voice, noises), called “the alchemist of the sounds” in a review, has founded several groups with outstanding line-ups and unique sound conceptions, and performs live from solo up to orchestra size. (…) Collaborations with well known fellow artists such as Joey Baron, Tom Cora, Joe Bowie, Hank Roberts, Han Bennink, Joëlle Léandre, Jon Rose, Oliver Mtukudzi, Stewart Sukuma, Malangatana, Shih-Yang Lee, Rabito Arimoto, Sakaki Mango, Akemi Takeya, Marta Binneti, Mookwon Kim, Ewald Oberleitner, Gabriele Mirabassi, Franz Hautzinger, Hope Masike, Josef Haslinger or Henning Mankell – to name but a few.” https://www.ear-x-eye.info http://www.youtube.com/user/wpntgm/videos
Trio Fred Marty, Xavier Mussat & Kecap Tuyul
Trio inédit de 3 improvisateurs ayant déjà joué ensemble dans d’autres contextes
Since their beginnings in February 2018, M.A.K.T. Sono (Magali Albespy and Kecap Tuyul) have been experimenting with different set-ups and ways of playing. Amongst them, they like to play both on the same instruments / set-ups in the same time. It’s what they did on ‘UNK.0, an improvisation played on a no-input mixer. The other tracks of this EP are electronic compositions by Kecap Tuyul and Doedelzak using this improvisation as only sound material.
Face à face, épisode 2, saison 1, the new album of Ayato is the 2nd part of a cut-up recomposition series recorded and mixed at La Ferme Là, Olivet, France between 2015 and 2017. It consists of playing in real time two tapes with two different multitrack recorders, which gives 4 stereo sounds side A in normal play and side B in reverse added to others sounds played depending on which way the wind is blowing with the others devices. Some Loops have been created during the mixing process. Cassettes are from private collection, gifts, prepared and found tapes, archives…
Click on the picture to visit the download page on archive.org
Mercredi 8 mai 2019
Tiasci, 13 rue de l’Acqueduc (porte vitrée)
75010 Paris
20H ouverture des portes
20H30 premier set
5 €
Dans le cadre d’une série mensuelle associant concerts de musiques improvisée/expérimentale et performances “autres”. L’événement sur facebook
Microfusion
Conte d’avant-garde rétro-futuriste au suspens doux et aux angoisses relaxante
Paul Kauffman – voix, boucles et basse allongée
Bruno Gattegno – voix, boucles et kaos pad
“Au bord de sa cabine le capitaine divaguait. De lents mouvement sourds ajoutaient à son silence des odeurs métalliques …”
Premier album
Florence Artur & Kecap Tuyul (performance vidéosonore)
Dans cette performance audio-visuelle, la principale source sonore provient des interférences que le dispositif de Florence Artur (peinture et vidéo numériques travaillées en direct) produisent sur les micros de Kecap Tuyul, sons retraités par une table de mixage configurée de manière peu orthodoxe.
Les deux artistes exploitent également les artefacts et comportements imprévisibles de leurs outils respectifs. Ils donnent ainsi naissance à un dispositif hybride permettant d’expérimenter plusieurs formes de rétroaction entre machines, entre humain et machine, vidéo et son – autant de relations invitant à rechercher diverses stratégies d’improvisation et modes d’interaction.
Video teaser :
Une vidéo plus ancienne de Florence Artur utilisant un morceau de Failure Circle (un projet solo de Kecap Tuyul)
visuel de l’événement tiré d’une vidéo de Florence Artur
Anastasia Vronski is a versatile experimental musician from Perm, Russia. Since years she has been creating an impressive and quite diverse body of work. Many of her tracks can be classified as “drone “or “noise”, but they always have a specific, often intriguing qualities. Above all, she’s not an artist who will do the same twice, and maybe that’s why some of her pieces are sometimes published separately. Since we thought many of them deserved more exposure, we decided to make a selection of such works in a compilation album : Estrangements, published in two volumes. While first one consisted of 4 minimal conceptual pieces, second one is made of 10 shorter tracks focusing on mysterious ambiances and dense sound textures. One of them, “the pack” wasn’t published before and was made specially for this compilation. The selection of tracks was made by the artist and the label, trying to make the compilation as cohesive as possible. We hope it will make you curious to discover more works from her.
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z(xW+yV) is a solo project of Kecap Tuyul started spring 2018 while experimenting different ways to generate low volume feedback with small gear : for instance with one contact microphone and one 1W battery-powered amplifier. It was initially thought as lo-fi version of the Failure Circle project with chaotic feedback system of the no-input mixer in a more portable way, but finally took a quite different direction, with a more tactile & acoustic dimension.
3×2(1W+18V) is the first published album of this project. It was recorded in june 2018 with lo-fi means (cell phone and a cheap digital recorder). Each track is a mix of 2 improvisations played with the most primitive form of z(xW+yV) : one contact microphone, one 1W battery-powered amplifier and two guitar effects (overdrive and equalization). The second album with feature only raw improvisations played on more complex versions of the set-up (with 3 or 4 amplifiers), like the latest samples posted on soundcloud.
Mercredi 17 avril 2019
Tiasci, 13 rue de l’Acqueduc
75010 Paris
20H ouverture des portes
20H30 premier set
P.A.F. : 5 €
Dans le cadre d’une série mensuelle associant concerts de musiques improvisée/expérimentale et performances “autres”.
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AURELIE DENIS : GLITCH solo
Auteure et plasticienne, sa pratique fait entrer en résonance écriture, dessin et performance ; c’est une enquête sur les trajectoires, les temporalités et les potentialités d’un corps. https://aureliedenisblog.wordpress.com/
Ce que devient le mouvement à la lisière du déséquilibre.
Visuel : Christophe Hamery
SIMONETTA PARISI (SANTOUR) & KECAP TUYUL (GUYMBALE)
Duo de musique improvisée acoustique.
Musicienne (pianiste, compositrice) et danseuse de formation, Simonetta Parisi jouera du santour
Mercredi 13 mars 2019 Tiasci, 13 rue de l’Acqueduc 75010 Paris 20H 10 € (repas végétarien et boisson inclus)
En collaboration avec Tiasci, dans le cadre d’une série mensuelle associant concerts de musiques improvisée/expérimentale et performances “autres”. Au programme, deux performances sonores s’intéressant notamment aux relations entre geste et son via divers appareillages électroniques.
De l’autre côté, la terre immobile où demeurent les nouveaux naufragés. Travail exclut la sédentarité, maison, sa patrie et loisir économise sa survie. Les bien-fonds itinérants produisent des expulsions pour les nouveaux nomades. Dans l’immobilité, le monde est à portée de main. Les industries meublent l’esprit des condamnés aux rêves forcés. Quand pour la mobilité et les déplacements, le primitif regarde les homo-digitalis, Et la mondialisation surveille la pluri-activité des propriétaires de mobile-home.
Laurent Di Biase est un artiste sonore dont les œuvres prennent la forme de performances concerts, de sculptures installations, de compositions électroacoustiques. Fortement inspirée par la culture d’avant-garde, sa pratique s’oriente vers les liens probables entre les arts multimédias et la musique expérimentale. Cette approche transversale et pluridisciplinaire se reflète également dans la diversité de ses performances live.
M.A.K.T. Sono
Duo d’improvisation formé par Magali Albespy et Kecap Tuyul explorant de diverses configurations de jeu avec un appareillage électronique modulaire propice à la génération de situations instables.
Leur deuxième album, 11 Songs, est constitué d’improvisations enregistrées lors de leur résidence M.A.K.T. Sono (sans sono) qui a eu lieu en novembre 2018 au Magasin – Laboratoire de permanence chorégraphique (Mathieu Heyraud), Saint-Etienne. Ils y jouent avec un dispositif modulaire composé de micros, mini-amplis à piles, synthétiseurs et voix, et intègrent un matériau chanson dans leurs improvisations.
