La Société de Curiosités, A Stranger Paradise and Classwar Karaoke present

Octaèdre Resonant

an octet in two movements for electro-acoustic instruments, guitars, bass, prepared chamber, effects pedals, machinery, electronics, tapes, monotron, goyamoog, kaossilator, objects

With Adrian Beentjes, Anton Mobin, Ayato, Colin Johnco, David Cunliffe, Hopek Quirin, Ian Linter, Murmurists, Thomas Fernier

Recorded Live at Les Voûtes – Paris – 21st April.

Concept by Ian Linter.

Produced by Ian Linter & Joséphine Muller.

Photos by Anton Mobin, Lysvia Maïz and Chloé B. Video by Chloé B.Special thanks to Eric Périer (La Société de Curiosités) and Remi Gros (Les Voûtes).
http://instantnet.wordpress.com
http://lesvoutes.org

Murmurists (Anthony Donovan) (uk)

Artist, musician, writer, composer, working solo as Murmurists. Improviser – with Vultures Quartet, Familiars, Donovan/Graham, and others. Member of Lux P0G0 and the.clinamen. Ardent collaborator. Co-founder of Classwar Karaoke with Jaan Patterson and Adrian Beentjes. Erstwhile academic. Born North West England; now Middle-England. Mid40s; moderately-healthy. Interests all either obscure or intentionally opaque, but morally authentic.

Fretless half-guitars, Goyamoog, Objects

http://murmurists.blogspot.com
http://vulturesquartet.com
http://classwarkaraoke.com

Adrian Beentjes (usa)

Born in 1973 in Philadelphia, USA. He lives with his family in the north-west England. Obsessed with sound​​, his passion draw upon the exploration of soundrecording, mixed / multi-media, performance and unrecordism. He leads the collective Classwar Karaoke with Anthony Donovan and Jaan Patterson and currently produces sound works under the project named Deadzoo.

Pickup, pickup coil, circuit bent toys, Field Recording, Microcassette, dc motors …

http://youtube.com/nadazipp
http://classwarkaraoke.com

Hopek Quirin (de)

Musician, objector, member of AADK, working with 6 or 7, abq, jochen arbeit’s soundscapes, classwar karaoke, madzaru etc.

Bass, Effekt pedals, Objects

http://myspace.com/hopekquirin
http://classwarkaraoke.com

Ian Linter (pt)

Electro-organic immediatism in any possible structure through a real-time feedback series of necessary events, expressed since the early 90’s on distinct anti-aesthetics with names like OLoF NiNe, ACT9, Airf’Auga, Massacre Divino, La Main Traumatique with Joséphine Muller, Plasma, RTP, among others.

« Non musika Excentrica IN! For electronikal renoise Key. Submit Random Science & reduction. Overflow cast Numar is for Den emon exp & la mort pour Vitas body convolution. »

Electronics, ohmed guitar

http://astrangerparadise.com/ianlinter
http://astrangerparadise.com/offbruma
http://pganza.com

Anton Mobin (fr)

Radio producer, sound artist and improvisator. He develops an intuitive, energetic music and done wonders for the self-confidence by any elitist codes which the improvised music. Anton Mobin multiplies the meetings with numerous international artists on stage and during his home radio show « A Maïzing session with… » on the webradio KKWNE.
Curator of the Improvisator Network and of the label H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record.

Prepared Chamber, Microphones, Objects, Electronics

http://antonmobin.blogspot.com
http://maizingsessions.blogspot.com
http://h.a.k.free.fr

Ayato (fr)

Musician, guitarist, do-it-yourselfer, composer of a dense and complex high-jacking music. One of the most active members of the collective H.A.K with a considerable production published on the label H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record. Part  of  Crash  Duo,  Cluedo  Krew,  Polymagoo  Commando, Thanato Twist with  Oleg’s  Sound System. Ayato  also  develops  a  particular  dialogue  with  Image  during  live  soundtracks  and  with  the photographer Malik Nejmi.

Prepared Guitar, Objects, Cassettes

http://ayato-sn1984.blogspot.com
http://h.a.k.free.fr

Thomas Fernier (fr)

Musician, composer, working solo (Chevo Légé), in duo (Marteau Mu, tvlasunor & Thomas Fernier) Part of the collective of improvisation “ Supersoft [14-18] ” (label : Partycul System) and of “Poésie  Is  Not  Dead” (collective  of  improvised  sessions  with  poets,  musicians  and  video directors). Realisation of soundtracks for des bandes-son for the theater and the dance (Benoît Bradel, Tomeo Verges)

Prepared Guitar, jack

http://myspace.com/thomasfernier
http://myspace.com/chevolege

Colin Johnco (fr)

Musician  and  sound  designer  based  in  Paris,  France.  In  late  2006,  he  created  LEEP (Les Enregistrements de l’Europe Parisien) then CJC records, both independent net-labels favoring ambient and experimental electronic music. Colin Johnco is currently playing in different bands such as FareWell Poetry, DR(DR)ONE and Prison Food Sucks.

Closed analog circuit

http://colinjohnco.com

David Cunliffe (uk)

Mainly drummer/percussionist with long history of playing in a wide variety of groups. Also interested in writing and recording solo music Member of YMMV, an experimental / avant-garde project with Adrian Beentjes. Originally only drummer, he now plays  extending percussion/electronics/sequences and effects processing with some vocal elements. He appeared on the CWK series as a solo artist (Igorspacieuse blouse/coffin Boffin) and as a member of The ThudExperiment, « Turso iku ». Photography and cinema are his interests.

Percussion, Electronics, Contact Microphones, Vocal emissions

http://archive.org/details/BlankCanvasem153

Classwar Karaoke

Operated by Adrian Beentjes (usa-uk), Anthony Donovan (uk) and Jaan Patterson (de), Classwar Karaoke is based around a series of ongoing quarterly surveys. Each act contributes a piece of music or film, an image, and a piece of writing.

As a project, classwar karaoke is based around a series of ongoing, quarterly surveys, the first of which, dubbed ‘0001 survey’, was released in May 2008. Each survey is different – in terms of personnel, number of personnel, and in terms of theme. Participation is fairly open – so long as those interested in being involved work intelligently within the broad context of experimental music and do not seek to use the project as just another on-line shop-window for their material. So far, the inclusive nature of classwar karaoke has worked wonderfully-well in terms of quality of material. See and hear for yourself by checking out our internet archive pages. Indeed, the label itself was envisaged, from the very start, as an experiment in the positive power which inclusivity can have upon artworking if included in meaningful ways. That said, we reserve the right to maintain the quality of both the art which is offered and the community from which it comes. Our ambitions for the label do not stop at periodic on-line releases. In the short time it has been running, we have already had  one  classwar  karaoke  live  showcase;  which  featured  as  0005  survey.  More  events  are  planned. Similarly, physical releases – of CDRs and DVDs – are forthcoming.

All material remains the property of the respective artists and is offered for free download in line with this license. The nine surveys published so far feature almost one-hundred artists, from all over the world; and the material in toto represents significant documentation of the experimental scene itself. Involvement in the project has helped spawn many fruitful collaborations, live-shows and a vibrant exchange of ideas; so much so that, for several repeat-participants, Classwar Karaoke is as much a collective as it is a mechanism for the release of new material.

http://classwarkaraoke.com
http://myspace.com/classwarkaraoke
http://archive.org/details/classwar-karaoke
http://classwarkaraoke.bandcamp.com/
http://ilike.com/artist/classwar+karaoke
http://last.fm/label/CLASSWAR+KARAOKE
http://reverbnation.com/label/classwarkaraoke

La Société de Curiosités

Dans l’enjeu actuel d’un choix d’orientation culturelle collective à grande échelle vers la croyance ou bien vers l’intelligence, le projet Infact Paris/La Société de Curiosités, en engageant les pratiques de production et d’écoute dans des échanges plus divers et moins normés, emprunte des voies possibles. Il propose des façons de faire des nouveaux partages, d’autres configurations de places pour donner libre cours à des pratiques artistiques inhabituelles et transformer leur abord en une activité.

http://instantnet.wordpress.com

A Stranger Paradise

L’association A Stranger Paradise a été créée en 2009 et a comme objectif la création et la dynamisation culturelle sous toutes ses formes, dans une logique d’expérimentation multi-disciplinaire et d’échange.

http://astrangerparadise.com
http://pganza.com

Alex Kimball & Ian Linter – Kathedrikos Maschine

A Live Transmission with Alex Kimball and Ian Linter applying abstractions from different locations: Little Rock, USA, and Paris, France. An absolute act of improvisation after the render Myth & recording passion for Lodovico Series 9. Recorded Saturday, number 26/11 in 2011.

Alex Kimball

« Really, The Death Sound started in 2007 when I was beginning to explore early industrial music. I had gotten a bug to look into older industrial music while I was going through a Numb kick. I am someone who likes to « go back to the beginning » of things, so to speak, study origins, so the logical starting place was Throbbing Gristle. I was fascinated by it; it was different, challenging, and like nothing you’d really hear called « industrial » today. I’d remembered my friend Matt from college did sequencer programing on a freeware program called Jeskola buzz. I called him up with the proposition of starting a project. The Death Sound was born. Our first recording was just an experiment with using sound editing software, chopping up samples. The result was « A Series of Tubular Bells », which was a joke track that we threw up on myspace until we had time to do anything better. That is, until Cosey Fanni Tuti sent us a message telling us she enjoyed our sound. Late 2007, we had a flurry of recording and put together the 5 or 6 track (depending on which version) Series of Tubular Bells EP, mostly Matt doing instrumentation and myself doing arrangement, composition and some vocals. By 2008, we had been making connections all over the world, and our sound was growing more diverse from the different influences. While we had discussed possibility of touring europe, plans never fully materialized (and we weren’t ready for live performances anyway). While we were making a small name for ourselves in the European scene, very few local shows developed and the reception was lukewarm. Summer of 2008 I arranged and recorded « Loneliness on the Psychic Seas » largely by myself, but building on Matt’s instrumentation. Around this time, I was also doing a number of collaborations with artists from around the world (OLoF NiNe, Tarsus, Arte Sacra Atelier, and several with both Finger Painted Death and Glitchgore) under the name The Death Sound, though these were largely a solo affair. Late summer, we finally scrounged some mediocre gigs to try to promote a compilation of odds and ends « Nothing But a Nightmare » and our band’s one year birthday. This would lead to the retrospective album TDS: « Year One », a compilation of our first two EPs and the full live set from our « birthday » gig, on OFF/BRUMA, a Portugese net label. TDS: « Year One » was intended to be a milestone from which we would launch ourselves forward, and still remains in heavy rotation on underground internet radio, however nothing is as we intend. We played « Easy Street » not long after our birthday show, which proved to be our most successful show. The live album from that night would be the Death Sound’s last full length release. We had intended to begin work on a follow up to Year One, which was to be titled « All Part of Nature’s Plan », however in early 2009 only a few tracks were finished. The birth of Matt’s daughter was a happy occasion, but it meant that he no longer had the time to devote to musical projects that he once did. I found myself playing for the Kill Crazies, a punk band spun off of the band we had played our last show with, which is a story unto itself. Essentially, the Death Sound went on Hiatus. The brief re-emergence of the Death Sound last year had a lot to do with Dakuu, Stillborn Diz, Fuck Your Scene Vol 2, and the breakup of Medicide. I discovered and absolutely fell in love with Stillborn Diz, who ended up on Fuck Your Scene Vol 2. Through Stillborn Diz, I’d heard of a band called 13th Moon; a member of 13th Moon had put out a free Japanese goth compilation called « Plan X From the Eastern Dark ». I checked it out because it had Darkside Mirrors on it (whom I adore). Masahide from Dakuu, a band on that compilation, saw I was familiar with his music from Plan X, and checked out what I was doing with FYS and The Death Sound. -Masahide-san and I talked about the possibility of putting something out on Retro Virus Records. In the end, we decided to include the Death Sound, Stillborn Diz, and Finger Painted Death. Very long and complicated, I know! This gave Matt and I the perfect excuse and opportunity to dust off what we had been working on before our hiatus. While « All Part of Nature’s Plan » will almost certainly never see the light of day, the 5 tracks on Mundus Patet are representative of what the album might have been like, as we were moving away from our harsher sounds to a more moody and melodic style. »

// Keyboard, flanger, phaser, delay, gristleizer//

http://retrovirusrecords.com

Ian Linter

Electro-organic immediatism in any possible structure through a real-time feedback series of necessary events: OLoF NiNe, ACT9, Airf’Auga, Massacre Divino, La Main Traumatique with Joséphine Muller, Plasma, RTP… Ian Linter turns the third axis created by Bórgia Ginz and mirrored by Juca Pimentel.

« Non musika Excentrica IN! For electronikal renoise Key. Submit Random Science & reduction. Overflow cast Numar is for Den emon exp & la mort pour Vitas body convolution. »

// Sampler Z and generator 14 for chroma in multi domains, pad OFF multi, effects Zoomer, controlled mic, ohmed guitar, ohmed voice, pG guitar, surfaces M – Z //

http://astrangerparadise.com/ianlinter

multiEmission @ Strange Frequencies Channel

Luís Antero’s latest project named Out Level consists of a laptop, electric prepared guitar or field recordings. Having had 7 releases in several netlabels around the world, it is a project composed of many sounds from one lone man. Luís is originally from a small village at the foot of the Serra da Estrela Mountain range in Portugal where his musical influences fuse with his philosophical views as well as literary references.

« To discover Out Level is undoubtely an experience. More enjoyable for ones, less for otherones, all this sound universe touch us in the way as it interwines all a variety of aesthetic languages, that walk from a sight more close to indie and shoegazze, to all a universe of field recordings and idm, with a close contact to the new tendries of all the electronic music of germain alternative circuits […] » Tiago Morgado | XS Records

« O projecto Out Level nasceu da vontade de experimentar… de improvisar, tendo os livros, o cinema e a fotografia como cenários primordiais para a criação musical, a que se juntou mais tarde o universo da fonografia. O objectivo (se é que existe) é criar ambientes que consigam projectar o ouvinte para lá do mero exercício de ouvir música… Quase tudo é gravado ao primeiro take, partindo de uma velha premissa que Kerouac usava em relação à escrita. Só assim se deixa na música o momento…

Discografia

Delay – Guitar Solo # 4 (biodata, 2010)
Strange Sounds Could Make a Man Happy (Just not Normal, 2010))
10 (prepared guitar solo live) (Electro Rucini, 2010))
Merzbau EP Guitar Solo (MiMi, 2009))
sx guitar ep (Test Tube, 2009))
Guitar Solo # 2 (EdP, 2009))
PrEgUiZzA (Electro Rucini, 2008))
Water Recordings (Bypass, 2008))
Estrela EP (XS Records, 2008))
K – EP (edição de autor, 2008))
Espaço (I)Limitado – Ao Vivo na Zero (Merzbau, 2007))
The Bedroom Sessions, Vol. 1 (Merzbau, 2006)

Author: Out Level (PT)

Home production: February 2011
Original photo: Out Level / Artwork: OFF/BRUMA

Metalurgia – Juca Pimentel

Bronssi

THX – Sofia Bravo

Suicidiária e outros poemas – Bórgia Ginz

Venus of Kazabäika

Contos Normais – Bórgia Ginz

Capa e THX Series – Sofia Bravo

Sofia Bravo

Sofia Bravo