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About Me

"où est l'avantage de rêver de princesses, plutôt que de la porte d'entrée de mon bureau ? "
1995-2001 : consistent collaboration with MAGNETIC RECORDINGS label (Rennes, France) & several releases : "ouvertur a pâque" (90' tape album), "reflet n°9" (7") & appearances on "various artists" tape albums
1997-2006 : soundtracks & musical improvisations for theatre & dance ("Blanche-Neige, septet cruel" & "Cage circus" directed by Benoît Bradel, "l'invention de la giraffe", a movie & a play with David S.Ware, directed by Benoît Bradel, "R.O.T.S." & "body time" choreographed by Tomeo Verges)
1998 : artistic collaboration with poetry review TIJA - The Incredible Justine's Adventures (Besançon, France) : sound installations (Besançon & Paris, France)
1999 : musical composition for the opening & closing of the broadcast entitled "in vivo" on Radio France Culture (Paris)
2001 : artistic residence at Mains d'--uvres (St-Ouen, France) & concerts
2002-2006 : consistent collaboration with PARTYCUL SYSTEM label (Reims, France) : release of CD album "bientôt votre mariage", concerts & "Sonorama" (public event mixing poetry & music)
2005 : musical composition for Radio Campus Paris within a project of poems put to music (a CD album - "loisirs créatifs" - gathers the tracks made by all the musicians)
2005-2006 : beginning of a musical collaboration with T.V.La.S.Un.Or. (Partycul System)
2006 : new album "butin / poilu" (unsigned)
2006-2007 : sound work & improvisations within the "Napoli express" project set up by Benoît Bradel & poet Anne-James Chaton (Montevideo in Marseille, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, L'Aire Libre in Rennes, France)
2007-2008 : musical & sound mix for the play "Idiotas", choreographed by Tomeo Verges
new album with T.V.La.S.Un.Or. : "music / no music" (see link within "friends" section)
soon, new album with singer A.C. under the name of Marteau Mu (myspace page will follow...)
You can order the CD "bientôt votre mariage" at Partycul System : http://membres.lycos.fr/partyculsystem/catalog.htm
Collages & engraving made by Laurence TEBOUL
except the illustration "CD with figurines" made by Tomasz ZARACHOWICZ
Visit his blog : http://www.ittichips.blogspot.com/

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/5/2006
Band Members: Thomas Fernier
Influences: Caroliner Rainbow / Erik Satie / François de Roubaix / Ron Geesin / Scritti Politti / Faust / Franco Battiato / The Residents / Dome / Cupol / G. Lewis & B.C. Gilbert / P'o / Duet Emmo / He Said / A.C. Marias / Wire / Colin Newman / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel / The Homosexuals / L. Voag / George Harrasment / Swell Maps / Kleenex / Liliput / Ludus / Delta 5 / Raincoats / Aqsak Maboul / Balinese music / Alesia Cosmos / David Sylvian / Gavin Bryars / Harold Budd / Albert Marcoeur / Dick Annegarn / Sun Ra / Charles Mingus / Julius Hemphill / François Bayle / Jorge Luis Borges / Duran Duran / Simple Minds / Can / Agitation Free / The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band / The Beach Boys / Moondog / A Tribe Called Quest / Charlie Chaplin / Fernando Pessoa / The Silly Pillows / The Monochrome Set / Rema-Rema / Mass / The Wolfgang Press / Lard Free / Spacecraft / Kraftwerk / Heldon / General Strike / Rev. Dwight Frizzell / Jérôme Bosch / Jungle Brothers / The Kinks / The Beatles / Don C. Talayesva / Serge Gainsbourg / Alain Chamfort / Christophe / Felt / Soft Machine / Matching Mole / Robert Wyatt / Jon Hassell / Talking Heads / Flipper / Lydia Lunch / Larry Clark / Balthus / Joël Séria / Ken Boothe / Nuova Consonanza / Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 / The White Shark / Fly Ashtray / Jacques Rozier / Pearls Before Swine / Igor Stravinsky / Bela Bartok / John Cassavetes / Heaven 17 / Lewis Carroll / Luis Bunuel / Antonin Artaud / Tuxedomoon / The Fall / Hal Hartley / Roland Barthes / Paul Klee / le Douanier Rousseau / Alvin Lucier / Joni Mitchell / John Coltrane / Don Cherry / Michel Portal / Andy Goldsworthy / Jan Svankmajer / Jean Dubuffet / Pierre Guyotat / Japan / Lio / Kukl / Crass / P.I.L. / The Shaggs / Andre Gurov / David Cronenberg / Dump / Bothy Band / Terry Riley / Salvatore Sciarrino / Negativland / Gustave Flaubert / Henri Michaux / Lucrate Milk / Louis de Funes / B-52's / Basement 5 / Michel Tournier / Cro Magnon / Test Dept / 23 Skidoo / Stanley Kubrick / railway stations / Richard von Krafft-Ebing / Momus / The Happy Family / Jean-Pierre Mocky / John Lurie / Benjamin Lew / airports / Cindytalk / Love / Captain Beefheart / Hampton Grease Band / The Nihilist Spasm Band / Hugo Pratt / Delphine Seyrig / Henri Dutilleux / Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz / André Kertesz / A Certain Ratio / Section 25 / Nomeansno / Ultra Vivid Scene / Chrome / MX-80 Sound / Fred Frith / Pierre Louys / Cabaret Voltaire / The Marx Brothers / Jean Vigo / Raymond Boni / John Carpenter / Lucio Fulci / Ennio Morricone / Nino Rota / Neu! / Guru Guru / Jacques Villeret / Davy Jones Locker / Polvo / Raoul Vaneigem / Roland Topor / Catalogue / Jac Berrocal / Video-Aventures / Guy Maddin / Group 1850 / MC5 / David Bowie / Jean-Luc Godard / Grégoire Bouillier / Sophie Calle / Un Drame Musical Instantané / Jimi Hendrix / Electric Prunes / Monty Python / Knut Hamsun / Incredible String Band / Metal Urbain / Kas Product / George A. Romero / Francis Ponge / Hergé / Supertramp / Thomas Mann / Michael Jackson / Gomorrha / Tyrannosaurus Rex / Frolkhaven / Jonas Mekas / Depeche Mode / The Band / Warum Joe / Paul Mc Cartney / Dazibao / Ptôse / Look de Bouk / Pataphonie / Pierre Henry / Pierre Schaeffer / Edgar Varèse / Dr. John / Eric Von Stroheim / Nick Drake / Gong / Magma / Art & Technique / cats, birds, insects / August Sander / Herman Hesse / Etienne Daho / Clint Eastwood / Al Green / Aretha Franklin / Imagination / Donna Summer / Michael Smith / The Last Poets / Tony Snell / Tom Waits / Lee Hazlewood / Syd Barrett / Jean-François Stevenin / The Seeds / The Deviants / Marquis de Sade / Taxi Girl / Polyphonic Size / Charles de Goal / Mecanica Popular / Jean Eustache / Sly & the Family Stone / H.Effect (Redon) / Steeple Remove / Electroscope / Boris Vian / Fedor Dostoiesvski / William Blake / David Lynch / Curtis Mayfield / Stevie Wonder / Joe Jackson / Burning Spear / Evguénie Zamiatine / Achwghâ Ney Wodei / Vox Populi / P16.D4 / Jad Fair / Meat Beat Manifesto / Moonshake / Steve Reich / Karin Krog / Brigitte Fontaine & Areski / DJ Krush / clouds, water, rain / Jean-Pierre Marielle / General Magic / We / Seefeel / Plastikman / Squarepusher / Richard D. James / Bedouin Ascent / Dylan Thomas / Suzy Delair / Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes / Georges Brassens / Charlélie Couture / D.A.F. de Sade / DJ Shadow / Fred Astaire / Jean Cocteau / John Barry / The Supremes / DJ Vadim / Carles Santos / Dymaxion / Luc Ferrari / Henri Chopin / Jorn Riel / Gyorgy Ligeti / La Monte Young / Charlemagne Palestine / Giusto Pio / Vittorio Gelmetti / Billie Holiday / Duke Ellington / Bernard Lubat / Chris Newman / Morton Feldman / Aka Pygmies / breathing, walking, thinking, dreaming / Charles Ives / Benjamin Britten / Darius Milhaud / Jacques Tati / Iannis Xenakis / Anton Webern / Drumhead / Intersystems / Trevor Wishart / Dog Faced Hermans / The Poetics / Gag / Melvins / the prisoner / Red Krayola / Spike Jones / John Hugues / Blondie / Circle X / Liquid Liquid / Joy Division / Alec Empire / Boby Lapointe / Dedalus / Birthday Party / Tones on Tail / Arthur Rimbaud / Betty Davis / The Velvet Underground / Yellow Magic Orchestra / African Head Charge / Laurie Anderson / Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Peter Sellers / Weekend / The Gist / Young Marble Giants / Pictures / The Human League / Blancmange / Gaston Lagaffe / Pere Ubu / Gorky's Zygotic Mynci / John Renbourn / Chocolate Watch Band / Massacre / Suicide / Bernard Herrmann / Martin Denny / Ken Nordine / Henry Mancini / John Cale / Yoko Ono / Third Ear Band / Area / Cluster / Alternative TV / The Slits / The Stranglers / The Police / Luciano Berio / AMM / Carl Gustav Jung / Didier Comès / Antoni Gaudi / Geronimo / William S. Burroughs / John Fante / Fabio Frizzi / Tamia & Pierre Favre / Smokey Johnson / Throbbing Gristle / Virgin Prunes / Exmagma / Dario Argento / Goblin / ZNR / Cyril Lefebvre / Stan Brakhage / Poison Girls / Ya Ho Wa / The Clash / My Bloody Valentine / Fugazi / Pram / Georges Bataille / Krzysztof Penderecki / Iva Bittova / Pavel Fajt / Extempore / MCH Band / Einstürzende Neubauten / Guv'ner / Butthole Surfers / Der Plan / Steve Lacy / Ingmar Bergman / Kabiye music / Laos music / Cambodian music / John Lee Hooker / Lightnin' Hopkins / Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft / Alan Silva / Eric Dolphy / Luciano Margorani / The Durutti Column / Cocteau Twins / Miles Davis / The Korgis / Depeche Mode / The Passage / Bushido / Attrition / Dalis Car / Dadamah / Adam & the Ants / Andy Partridge / Dif Juz / Franz Kafka / Jonathan Coleclough / Sandoz Lab Technicians / Climax Golden Twins / Scott Walker / Mecano / Flue / Archie Shepp / Guided by Voices / Amephone / Jean Guerin / Jacques Thollot / The Saboten / E / Dunaj / Kjetil D. Brandsdal / Claudio Monteverdi / Annexus Quam / Mike Patton / Cul de Sac / CCCP / Laibach / Gonzales / Biosphere / Boards of Canada / Pimmon / planes, cars, trains, machines / Daniel Johnston / DQE / Prince / Krishnamurti / Alain Kremski / Carlos Castaneda / Spectre / Mike Ladd / Funkadelic / James Joyce / Fifty Foot Hose / Thomas Dolby / Spandau Ballet / Colette Magny / Howard Jones / Brian Eno / Ma Chérie for Painting / Talk Talk / Royal Family & the Poor / Leos Carax / Silver Apples / The Modern Lovers / Ui / Luke Vibert / Cecil Leuter / De La Soul / Grandmaster Flash / Public Enemy / Cypress Hill / Clouddead / Ubik / Stinky Toys / Rembrandt / Hector Zazou / Arto Lindsay / Furtips / Frank Pahl / the Texas chainsaw massaker / Philippe Doray / Etron Fou Leloublan / Art Zoyd / Univers Zero / Mireille & Jean Nohain / Aorta / The Free Design / The Holy Modal Rounders / John Kennedy Toole / Les Nuls / Ultimate Spinach / Blurt / Brise-Glace / You Fantastic ! / The Smiths / Gaston Chaissac / Karel Appel / Milk from Cheltenham / Reynols / Starfuckers / Whitehouse / Brainticket / The United States of America / Brion Gysin / The Byrds / Jacques Tourneur / Rhys Chatam / Harry Partch / Raymond Roussel / 13th Floor Elevators / Peak Impressions / The Deep / The Doors / Kate Bush / This Heat / Bästard / Harmonia / Swans / The Godz / Charles Baudelaire / Television / The Fugs / Charles Trenet / David S. Ware / William Parker / Matthew Shipp / Nurse With Wound / Sonic Youth / DJ Spooky / Crescent / Movietone / Baroque Jazz Trio / Claude Yvans / Henry Purcell / Minutemen / Space 1999 / Bourvil / Zoviet France / Pierre Bastien / Jean-Claude Vannier / Gbaya music / Pandit Ram Narayam / Philip Glass / Bochiman Pygmies / Big Bill Bronzy / Muddy Waters / Leadbelly / Johann Sebastian Bach / Perotin / Astor Piazzola / Caetano Veloso / Little Richard / Buddy Holly / Henry David Thoreau / Hariprasad Chaurasia / Pandit Shivkumar Sharma / Clock DVA / Thelonious Monk / John Cage / Philip Corner / Robert Ashley / Vladimir Cosma / Jerry Goldsmith / Alfred Hitchcock / Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake / Max Roach / Sigmund Freud / Alexandro Jodorowsky / Fernando Arrabal / Dead Kennedys / Jean Rochefort / Satyajit Ray / Amalia Rodrigues / Charles Laughton / Louis-Ferdinand Céline / to be continued...
Sounds Like: whatever you want...
Record Label: Partycul System (Reims - France)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

favorite discos... (mars-mai 2008)

ZZ TOP  Tejas (WB / 1976)FRANCOIS BAYLE  Erosphère (INA-GRM / 1982)FRANCOIS BAYLE  Les Couleurs de la Nuit (INA-GRM / 1985)VON SÜDENFED  Tromatic Reflexions (Domino / 2007)PIMMON&n...
Posted by chevo légé on Thu, 29 May 2008 06:44:00 PST

favorite discos... (novembre-décembre 2007)

COREY HARRIS  Mississippi to Mali (Rounder / 2003)THE PASSIONS  Thirty Thousand Feet Over China (Polydor / 1981)FATHER YOD  Expansion (Swordfish / 1974)WASTED YOUTH  From The Inner...
Posted by chevo légé on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:45:00 PST

chronique de M. Daubert dans Magic - oct. 07

"Où l'on apprend à assumer sa passion boulimique de sources sonores en tout genre. Antiques boîtes à musique, guitares déglinguées, miettes d'orgue de barbarie ou de xylophone, des bruits d'étangs, de...
Posted by chevo légé on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:21:00 PST

favorite discos... (été 2007)

BASEMENT 5  "1965-1980" (Island / 1980)HALMA BRAVO  A Long Way Down (auto-production / 2007)LiLiPUT / KLEENEX  Intégrale (Kill Rock Stars / 1978-1983)POETICS  Remixes Of Recordings...
Posted by chevo légé on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:27:00 PST

favorite discos... (mars-avril 2007)

V/A From Brussels with Love (Les Disques Du Crépuscule / 1980)RON GEESIN Electrosound (KPM / 1972)PHILIPPE BESOMBES Libra (Pôle / 1975)THE JAZZ BUTCHER Sex and Travel (Rebel Rec. / 1985)SAD LOVERS &am...
Posted by chevo légé on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:09:00 PST

tentative de répertoriage de musiques incrustées de façon indélébile dans ma conscience...

il ne s'agit pas forcément de musiques ou chansons que j'affect(ionn)e plus que d'autres...c'est plutôt qu'elles ont infecté ma mémoire sans que je comprenne très bien comment ni pourquoi...elles sont...
Posted by chevo légé on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:31:00 PST

favorite discos del momente... (janvier-février 2007)

D.O.M. ALIA ORCHESTRA DINO MARIANI Invenzioni (Bull Record / 1983)POISON GIRLS Hex (Crass Records / 1979)THICK PIGEON (same) (Factory / 1984)BERNARD LUBAT & HIS MAD DUCKS (same) (Les Disques Pierr...
Posted by chevo légé on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:01:00 PST