From September 22 to October 2, 2022
Paris Platform
Opening Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Visit of the exhibition on Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29, Friday 30 and Saturday 1 October from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
With the artists:
Romaric Sobac, Leandro Barzabal, Charalambia Englezou, Solar Return, Horspiel Machine, Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi, Ben Owen, Nikki Lindt, Seth Cluett, Heidi Neilson, Amble Skuse, Gaël Segalen, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Dinah Bird, Jean-Philippe Renoult
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Romaric Sobac
Performer affiliated with Non-jazz since 2007.
Favorite instruments: upright piano, Saint Nazaire cornet, tennis balls.
Currently plays in Suicide Motorhead (with Paul Laurent & friends) and The New Challenge of Ovnis (with Victor Michaud and François Cazaux), Friponnes de porc, Straub Mocky and other bands with variable numbers. His plastic work takes shape in the diversion of everyday objects in a striking and offbeat Dadaist chaos.
Leandro Barzabal
Leandro has been working since 2001 as an autodidact in the field of experimental music, improvisation and performing arts, particularly around the emblematic instrument of rock: the electric guitar. Through it, which is subject to various constraints, he works on the rupture of the instrument while producing an aesthetic succession of sounds. He develops physico-musical experiences.
He uses space and surrounding objects to compose with reality and strives to build his own instruments.
Since June 2018, he has been based in Paris where he is involved in the experimental scene, having performed in the following spaces: Le Wonder artist-run space, Garage MU, Glassbox Paris, Les Instants Chavirés, Le Non-Jazz cycle, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, the festival A Summer in Le Havre, the Autistic Campaign Festival (Rouen), Festival Bruitisme (Bourges), Festival Brigade Rouge Poésie Noire (Paris), Festival Inact (Strasbourg) , Decadance Festival (Vanves), etc.
In 2021 he founded the GRM Parallèle studio (Asnières-sur-Seine) dedicated to the construction of musical instruments, the support of musicians wishing to develop DIY electronic projects and sound research.
Charalambia Englezou
Charalambia Englezou is a designer and artist based in Cyprus with a background in multimedia and graphic arts. Her interests revolve around ecology and nature which she explores in the context of art. Specifically, the fusion of technology and nature and the relationship between man and ecology. She also has a keen interest in tangible products and DIY using modern manufacturing technologies to create unique designs.
Julien Ottavi
He develops a work of research and creation crossing, music, sound art, sound poetry, new technologies, construction of electronic devices and physical performance. Artist involved in the free movement, he organizes his musical approach using open source and copyleft composition and lutherie tools. His musical writing practice revolves around machine performance with the implementation of a programmatic composition system where the computer program becomes the score. He is as much an interpreter of the repertoire of the last fifty years (John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Earle Brown, James Tenney…) as a composer in the sense of creating new music (percussion, mixed music, electronics, electroacoustics, noise, sound poetry, generative music, random machine, programmed, telematics…) and graphic writing.
Likewise through the body always at the center both as animality, or as being to oneself and to others, bringing into action numerous performances on the becoming of the body, the mutant body, the body and the voice, the urban body… etc. that can oscillate between an urban situation or a workshop context. Back and forth movement in writing, text and language also have great importance in his practice, theoretical and poetic experimentation, from the page to the saying, he has written several texts around sound practices, art and movement of free but also on hacking, drift and loss of language. Beyond mediums and categories, the activation and mise en abyme of energies, concepts and forces through experience is one of his ways of practicing creation in its material, social, sensory, sensitive and conceptual.
Jenny Pickett
Jenny Pickett produces collective works, both in contemporary music, visual, digital and sound arts. She creates in situ installations as well as sound sculptures and performances from recordings that she makes on site to invite us to reconsider the impressions we have of our environment. Develops a singular artistic approach using interactive video, sound, installation and sculpture, from open source tools, as well as DIY (“do it yourself”) code and electronics in combination with found objects and other crafts.
Pickett is a member of the artists’ collective and currently teaches art and representational techniques at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes (ensa). She is also a PhD candidate at the Media art and Design Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology. His thesis is: “Doing it with others (DIWO): methodologies for artistic and pedagogical production“
Solar Return
Franco-English artists Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi created Solar Return in 2009. Taking electromagnetic phenomena as a starting point for their sound creations. They have produced various scores for dual audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronics etc. which reflect electromagnetic patterns and events such as solar flares and cell phone masts in city centers, hidden sonic environments as well as the unfathomable audio world of kitchen appliances. Through their performances, the duo go deep into the world of frequency, statics and sound as a physical experiment, where they mix environmental recordings from the cosmos to pylons to nuclear power plants with electronics. live and various antennas as instruments. Jenny Pickett was the first to perform live using the enormous VLF antenna as an instrument with her performance Cosmic Power Lines at the HAB Galerie / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2013 and then with Solar Return playing physical space, the public and the architecture of the place by a movement.
Electropixel Festival #12 – “Irrational Collective”
For this new edition of the Electropixel festival, we plan to deepen the relationship to the collective and to shared creation through a network of international exchanges. The festival continues to imagine and think about new methods of artistic creation during the pandemic and in particular the disintegration of the idea of common and sharing. We need to find links in creation, new ways of exploring new writings together rather than being isolated, confined, separated. How to build creations that represent multiple and delocalized collectives.
The Horspiel Machine with sound artists:
Ben Owen, Nikki Lindt, Seth Cluett, Heidi Neilson, Amble Skuse, Gaël Segalen, Jenny Pickett & Julien Ottavi, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Dinah Bird & Jean-Philippe Renoult
During Electropixel 12, eleven artists from all over the world offer a sound piece to feed the Horspiel Machine.
“Early examples of the use of the radio medium to produce art can be found in the German Hörspiel (radio play), a form of radio theater that blends documentary, soundscape and electroacoustic music with sound editing techniques. One of the earliest examples was on October 24, 1924, when Frankfurt Radio broadcast ‘Zauberei auf dem Sender: Versuch einer Rundfunkgroteske’ [Enchantment on the Air: Grotesque Radio Attempt] written and produced by artistic director Hans Flesch . In this experimental radio play, a broadcast is interrupted by a wizard who wreaks havoc in the studio in order to hypnotize listeners with sound illusions. (John Barber)
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Events related to the exhibition: Electropixel 12 evening at Mains d’Oeuvres in St Ouen on September 23 and 24.
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Electropixel Festival #12 – “Irrational Collective”
For this new edition of the Electropixel festival, we plan to deepen the relationship to the collective and to shared creation through a network of international exchanges. The festival continues to imagine and think about new methods of artistic creation during the pandemic and in particular the disintegration of the idea of common and sharing. We need to find links in creation, new ways of exploring new writings together rather than being isolated, confined, separated. How to build creations that represent multiple and delocalized collectives.
The Electropixel Festivals
Festival of emerging digital cultures and free electronic practices,
Electropixel is part of an international network of electronic arts festivals. The festival opens a unique space allowing the meeting of artists (audiovisual, musicians, visual artists, intermedia, performers, etc.), theoreticians, programmers, hackers, and inventors of all stripes and everyday factories.