| Influences |
Cinema and performance : Alain Resnais (Je t'aime, je t'aime first), Andy Kaufman, Sol, Arthur Lipsett, Stan Brakhage, Glenn Gould (his lifestyle), Béla Tarr, Janos Szasz, Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikhail Kalatozov, Akira Kurosawa, Teshigahara, Satoshi Kon, Luis Buñuel, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd), Steven Soderberg (Schizopolis), Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Eric Von Stroheim's (Greed), Mike Nichols, Orson Welles, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Matthew Barney, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson (Mouchette is my favorite), Jane Campion (An Angel at My Table first), John Cassavetes, Jan Svankmajer, Jacques Tati, Jean-Luc Godard (60's ; later it is too much for the academic minds), Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jos Stelling, Roberto Benigni, Kim Ki-duk, Lars Von Trier, Marlon Brando, Maya Deren, Michael Haneke, Larry Clark, Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley), Catherine Breillat, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Raoul Ruiz (Klimt), Robert Lepage, Robert Morin (Yes Sir ! Madame...), Sean Penn, Roman Polanski, Terry Gilliam, Todd Haynes (Safe ; I'm not There), Todd Solondz, Werner Herzog, Woody Allen [...]
Music : Anthony Braxton, Aphex Twin, Arnold Dreyblatt (Animal Magnetic), Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Arvo Pärt, Beach Boys / Brian Wilson, Björk, Boards Of Canada, Bob Drake, Captain Beefheart, Carla Bley, Cerberus Shoal, Charles Ives, Charles Mingus, cLOUDDEAD, Cocteau Twins (early), Conlon Nancarrow, Craig Taborn, David Bowie, Disco Inferno, DJ Shadow, Don Caballero, Fantômas, Fennesz, Fiery Furnaces, Harmonium, Hella, Górecki, Herbert, Jim O'Rourke, Joanna Newsom, John Fahey, Joy Division, Julius Hemphill, Kate Bush, Léo Ferré, Lili Boulanger (Pie Jesu), Milhaud (La Création du monde), Louis Sclavis, Max Tundra, Mike Oldfield, Moondog, Mr. Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, Nels Cline, Nico, Olivier Messiaen, Per Norgard (Works for harp and ensemble ; his symphonies kind of suck), Pere Ubu, PJ Harvey (White Chalk), Prokofiev (Waltzes), Public Image Limited, Radiohead, Raymond Scott, René Lussier, Rodrigo, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Shostakovich (piano music), Smiths, Sonic Youth, Sparks, Spring Heel Jack, Steve Lacy (with Irene Aebi on vocals), Syd Barrett, Talking Heads, Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle), Velvet Underground, Virginia Astley, William Bolcom, Xenakis, Zeena Parkins (Persuasion) [...]
Literature, painting and other : Hieronymous Bosch, Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali, Dostoïevski, Eliade (Aspects du mythe), Kandinsky, Klimt, Vincent Van Gogh, Robert Crumb, Elias Canetti (Le territoire de l'homme), Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Auster, Kafka, James Joyce, John Fowles, Émile Nelligan, St-Denys-Garneau, Anne Hébert, Claude Gauvreau, Réjean Ducharme, Élise Turcotte, Margaret Atwood, Oscar Wilde (La vérité des masques, essais et aphorismes), Rainer-Maria Rilke, Rousseau + Nietzsche (+Wagner), Role Playing Games (Final Fantasy III on Super NES), Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf (The Waves), Janet Frame, Clarice Lispector, Hermann Hesse, Samuel Beckett, Luigi Pirandello [...]
But, all of this is mostly present in my voice and my lyrics. For the music, these lists are mostly lies when it comes to composition. My method brings me ideas and I select the ones I prefer. |