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

Le Placard Headphone Festival

August 26st Last_Generale, Sèvres, France – the return of the 72 hour Paris open slot. It will also be the last event in La Generale en Manufacture. Le Placard started in 1998 in Paris, France. At that time finding venues for alternative music was difficult, and police raids on unlicensed events were frequent. So instead Erik Minkkinen organised a headphone party in his small apartment, called ‘placard’ after the French word for ‘cupboard’.

Since then this concept has grown to an international streaming festival, with tens of cities providing listening rooms for local and remote performances. Placard has formed part of the Mutek, Transmediale, Garage and Pixelache festivals. The event in Paris has itself grown into an institution, running for 72 hours straight where the audience sleep with their headphones on, still listening.

With:

xo54, c_c_c_c, Jeunesse Interlope Football Club, Vanessa Paradigme, Emmanuelle Gibello + Erin Sexton, Etienne Brunet, e_rebus, Frédéric Maintenant, Planetaldol, Stefaan Quix, spinzero, drone à clochettes, Toutils, the gerries, Julie Rousse, Lost Forgotten, Jean Bender, 10Konekt, cdrikcroll, ITSY AS EVIL, Cogne et Foutre, Fashion Garage Concerto, inc + guests & ghosts, Talk City, EDEN SUICIDE RESORT, usr/sbin, hiroyuki, Forgotten Beat, StruKtur, grinning, DongleDoc, LDB Armstrong & Die Karlheil Gruppe, Anton Mobin & Juca Pimentel, CASSE GUEULE, Extrasystole, Juca Pimentel, JOACHIM MONTESSUIS, ANTON MOBIN, Stefaan Quix, VEhF, David Fenech, Nicolas Carras, La Main Traumatique (Ian Linter + |Joséphine Muller|), B.I.A.S, Erik Minkkinen , VODKA+MEAT (BOLUS+MONTESSUIS), OLoF NiNe (Ian Linter), MaCu, Yro, hiroyuki, Jean Foutre Cogne Bender, eddie135, Luckyr, Jack_ledevehat, Christine Webster, Kikiilimikilii, KGP trio, The pRésidents, feu machin, Avril Wipago/Alexandre Bellenger/Fred Marty, CASSE GUEULE, dan.digital, Zreen Toyz, MessHerpe, hiroyuki, STE-EXPERIENCES. Gargouillax, Erik Zann, Berangere Maximin & Colin Johnco

Complete Placard here:
http://leplacard.org/2011/Last_Generale/

Naal Stayn

Naal Stayn is the man behind many names and many bands like KZSE, Tattooed intestine, Melanome, Trendy Store, Lipstandärd and just mentioning a few… 78’s, altered playing, après-garde, blind recording, bore-friendly, claustrophone, complex-minded, concrete folk, de-music, de-taught, do it myself, err-hazer, far listening, hybrid wave, isolated live, krautsynth, leftwave, lo-psychedelic, maximalism, mental synth, multicraft, no-fi, one-off releases, otherground, overdubbed underdubs, own listening, prepared accidents, proto fünke, re-taught, self sufficiently, sexophobic claps, shield recording, sober sophistication, solitarium, sorrow garden, stream of unconsciousness, uncareering, unsync devices. You can check his one-off & self-produced discography under licence of Self Sufficient Records.

http://self-sufficientrecords.blogspot.com
http://myspace.com/naalstayn
http://myspace.com/trendystore1983

Empathy Kills (aka |Joséphine Muller|)

|Joséphine Muller| has been creating metamorphic video-sound fields under different names like Sex on Saturday, Empathy Kills, Abnot Kraz, or La Main Traumatique. Improvised and minimalist electronic manipulations or electro acoustic abstractions, these are some manifestations of this OFF/BRUMA netlabel and ASP association co-founder.

http://astrangerparadise.com/josephinemuller
http://astrangerparadise.com

MaCu (aka Susanne Hafenscher)

MaCu is the project of the Austrian musician Susanne Hafenscher. She started her musically activities with studying piano and vocals. After a certain period without doing any music she began to play guitar. Soon MaCu started to experiment with prepared guitar and to generate music by using field recordings and processed sounds of objects and vocals. She has an extensive discography and composition collaborations released by some of the finest netlabels, and recently she co-founded the netlabel kultur[Terrorismus].

http://macu1.wordpress.com
http://kulturterrorismus.de

Anton Mobin

Anton Mobin is a concrete music composer & radio producer addict of field recordings. Co-curator of the collective H.A.K. and curator of the Improvisators Network. Objects manipulator & improvisator experienced due to several meeting with international artists which one of the most important was certainly with Rinus van Alebeek in Berlin. Always in search for new articulations between objects, manipulations, and interaction with his own body. A crack, a fold, a brightness, a jolt in the plan of the sound, a convexity of surface…

Dreams face downward

Performed live by Anton Mobin at the ASP studios Paris on December 22th, 2010.
Recorded in multi-channel by |Ian Linter| for OFF/BRUMA.

Prepared Chamber. This chamber is a home-made acoustic instrument prepared by Anton Mobin and composed with a large box in wood, upgraded with several springs and others metallic found objects selected for their capacity to create melody. The box is divided into three parts among which each is covered with a different surface (a wood, a metal and a plastic one). Three different contact-microphones are placed in suspension under these surfaces: bass contact for the wood, medium contact for the metal and high contact for the plastic surface. Deliberate accidents produced in the Prepared Chamber create a micro universe which I dread in an intuitive way to resound as the pling plong music. Prepared chamber & Objects manipulated by Anton Mobin in an acoustic mode with effects application and treatments in real time by |Ian Linter|. Each of the 3 microphones were plugged and recorded in a separated track with different processing and equalization on each of them.

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

Alrucini (aka Albedo Rubedo Citrinitas Nigredo)

Ricardo Alrucini is the entity behind names like Alrucini, Shamahan, Bad Slap Org, Ombilic, Umbra, Apocalipse Político, and many others. They are Ritualistic Dada manipulations and Industrial Surrealisms transformations in exponential relation with the Moon’s shadow. Alrucini is underground. His extensive discography can be heard at Electro Rucini, the label he founded in 2007.

http://alrucini.blogspot.com
http://obraemalrucini.blogspot.com
http://archive.org/details/electro-rucini

OLoF NiNe (aka |Ian Linter|)

The idea is to have no idea, just frequencies. Metamorphic industrial/immediatism/sensorial. Application controlled for the moment in the superior axis of the Immediate.

http://omnicorn.com/olofnine
http://myspace.com/olofnine

Juan Antonio Nieto (aka Pangea)

Juan Antonio Nieto is a sound artist who signs some of his works under the name of Pangea. His records have been published in labels around the world as Trente Oiseaux, Mandorla, Experimedia, Impulsive Habitat, Idiosyncratics, TestTube AMP, among others. Pangea has collaborated with some of the most prestigious avant-garde artists of the world, Brazilian classical composer Leo Alves Vieira working with string quartets and choirs, the Japanese author Kenji Siratori who has voiced his compositions and David Velez, this latter release was considered the best album of 2007 by the journal Earlabs. His music has been included in art installations in the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid and the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires. Pangea has performed in various European and American cities.

http://pangea-juanantonionieto.blogspot.com
http://myspace.com/juanantonionieto

Ian Linter

Ian Linter is an original member of the Portuguese underground collective produções Ganza, co-founder of OFF/BRUMA netlabel, and also many others sonic entities like the non-stop webradio Strange Frequencies Channel, under the label ASP. His creations are electro-organic immediatism in any possible structure through a real-time feedback series of necessary events, and have been 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… Ian Linter turns the third axis created by Bórgia Ginz and mirrored by Juca Pimentel.

http://astrangerparadise.com/ianlinter
http://astrangerparadise.com/strange-frequencies-radio
http://pganza.com

OFF/BRUMA would like to thank all the beautiful dreamers who gave substance to this album.

Four solos improvised live for Anton Mobin’s « A Maïzing session with… » radio show, broadcasted on the KKWNE webradio, successively by :such: (tape manipulation), Ian Linter (electronic manipulation), Rinus van Alebeek (tape manipulation) and Anton Mobin (tape manipulation).

:SUCH:

The first meeting with :such: was during the Estafette Rue Cassette in Paris in June 2010. :such: plays an heavy and dense ambient with a fine meditative touch. He played on two prepared tape desks by the great Doctor AxDelbor of the collective H.A.K.
:such: is also co-curator of the label SDZ Records and animator of the Crudités radio show.

http://sdzrecords.free.fr
http://crudites.free.fr

IAN LINTER

Ian Linter is an original member of the Portuguese underground collective produções Ganza, co-founder of OFF/BRUMA netlabel, and also many other sonic entities, like the non-stop webradio Strange Frequencies Channel, under the ASP label. He records under several names but always in different aesthetics, like OLoF NiNe, ACT9, Airf’Auga or La Main Traumatique with Joséphine Muller, among others…
His creations are electro-organic immediatism in any possible structure, through a real-time feedback series of necessary events…

http://astrangerparadise.com/ianlinter
http://astrangerparadise.com/strange-frequencies-radio
http://pganza.com

RINUS VAN ALEBEEK

Rinus is an imminent member of the Berliner underground scene. Musician, curator, writer, cassetteur, he plays with Angie Yeowell, De Drones with Raoul Haarmannero, Diktat, Jeudi Pop among many other collaborations. He’s also co-animator of the radio show “Radio On” with Adrian Shephard. Also, note that OFF/BRUMA was pleased to release offb007 dnasnow/mouseup – 7 with Zan Hoffman, in 2008.
Last but not the least, Rinus van Alabeek is the curator and producer of Staaltape, the cassette division of the famous Staalplaat label.

ANTON MOBIN

Concrete music composer & radio producer addict of field recordings.
Co-curator of the collective H.A.K. and curator of the Improvisators Network.
Objects manipulator & improvisator experienced due to several meeting with international artists which one of the most important was certainly with Rinus van Alebeek in Berlin.
Always in search for new articulations between objects, manipulations, and interaction with his own body. A crack, a fold, a brightness, a jolt in the plan of the sound, a convexity of surface…

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