(...) experimental and primitive sound-activities (...) hybrid acousmatic contexts (...) neo-archaisms, Japanese Gagaku, Tibetan rituals, Pygmy music (...)
(...) everything linked to noise manufacturing, electronic manoeuvrings – including – digital percussive devices and vinyl manipulation (...)
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(...) whichever way I turn I see nothing but the odds and ends of odd places. Genuflecting behind absurd trees the idiot spits out spasms of silence and solitary games for eared-eyes ; mapping zones of nothingness to hear scribblings in the air ; espying the noise-print of time through a velvet grid. A quiet walk in unwonted constructions full of dust and fossils. (...)
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Zn'shñ
Audio releases on Odiolorgnette :
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NEW CD (September 2009)
* II
Recorded 2009.
Performed by Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff.
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NEW CD (April 2009)
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Recorded 2008/2009.
Performed by Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff.
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Zn'shñ
Free download releases on Clinical Archives & Tecnonucleo netlabels :
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* The winter book
(Original soundtrack from the eponymous film)
Recorded December in 2008.
Performed by Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff.
Free-download version
on Clinical Archives [ca231]
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* Winter recordings
(TAO Edit)
Recorded December in 2008.
Performed by Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff.
Free-download version
on Tecnonucleo [TN012 V.A.]
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* Oxymora
Recorded in July 2008.
Performed by Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff.
Free-download version
on Clinical Archives [ca160]
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* On monoxide & onyx synchronism
Recorded in July 2008s.
Performed by Franck Smith.
Free-download version
on Clinical Archives [ca161]
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The Darwich Fetish Edition is a collection of sound-objects made in 2 original specimens — among which one for collectors — and very limited series of custom-made phonocrafts.
The first "drafts" of Zn'shñ's sound were recorded on this collection. (See hereafter).
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* Les pierres de touche
(6 fragments for Butoh dance contexts)
Recorded May 2008 in Paris.
Performed by Franck Smith.
[Click the turntable to play this record]
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* La pierre de gué
(1 micro-ceremony inspired by Japanese Gagaku)
Recorded April 2008 in Paris.
Performed by Franck Smith.
[Click the turntable to watch recording session trailer]
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Other works published on The Darwich Fetish Edition :
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* Les jeux de la poupée
(Phonographic study on Hans Bellmer's eponymous work)
Recorded March 2006 in Paris.
Performed by Franck Smith.
[Click the picture to play this record]
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* J'écoute les marteaux-piqueurs !
(6 bagatelles from an aphorism by Edgard Varèse)
Recorded February 2006 in Paris.
Performed by Franck Smith.
[Click the picture to play this record]
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* 0+0
(Circular timescape in memory of John Cage)
Recorded February 2006 in Paris.
Performed by Franck Smith.
[Click for direct link]
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Next audio releases on Odiolorgnette/The Darwich Fetish Edition :
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