Smith Franck

Music:

Member Since: 4/20/2007
Band Website: odiolorgnette.com
Influences:

(...) 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 (...)

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

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Hereafter: Qoo-ij orium in concert (Edit.2)

6mn editing from a live performance at "Petit laboratoire expérimental de musiques" in Luxembourg. Featuring: Franck Smith, Hugues Vincent (right) & Steve Kaspar (left).–––––––––––––––––†“–––

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NEW!!! SEPTEMBER 2007

Qoo-ij orium – Trompe-l'oeil & bagatelles

Contains a collection of neo-archaisms (sic) conceived & directed by Franck Smith. A 24 track-suite displaying a kind of new primitive music w/ hybrid electronics and various instruments. A work around "instrumentarium geometry" close to chamber music esthetic and post-modern composition using electronics, vinyls, percussive devices, bowed-berimbau, accordion, objects, soundfields, electric guitar, e-bow, computer processing and personal archives of Pygmy polyphony.

Recorded 2006-2007 / Ref: odl.9173-652

Price: 14,50€ (Free postage)

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Listen to selected cuts (...)

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Hereafter: Qoo-ij orium in concert (Edit.1)

6mn editing from a live performance at "Petit laboratoire expérimental de musiques" in Luxembourg. Featuring: Franck Smith, Hugues Vincent (right) & Steve Kaspar (left).–––––––––––––––––†“–––

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!!! COMPLETE SELECTION OF UP-LOADED VIDEOS CAN BE SEEN ON youtube.com/odiolorgnette !!!

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For details on discographic works go to: www.odiolorgnette.com

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"Les urnes funéraires" by Franck Smith

Inspired by the book of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) — Hydriotaphia, urn burial — this recording is a dark ritual in three parts focusing on the «...ashes to ashes, dust to dust...» mechanisms. Maybe you should read the book before listening...

Recorded & mixed in 2006 / Ref: odl.9173-651

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See more=VIDEOS (under photo profile) and click VIEW ALL VIDEOS UPLOADED BY ODIOLORGNETTE (...) COMPLETE SELECTION OF UP-LOADED VIDEOS CAN ALSO BE SEEN ONyoutube/odiolorgnette AND http://video.google.com (by searching: odiolorgnette).

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"Nekrob umics" by Franck Smith

Fluxus member Milan Knizak is responsible of some of the most beautiful and inventive experiments on gramophones and vinyls with his work «Broken music» (1979) based on ruined and/or prepared records — stuck, painted, burnt, cut, glued... «Nekrob umics» (anagram for «Broken music») pays tribute to this visionary of pre-recorded supports manipulation who started making noise with discs in the early sixties.

Recorded & mixed in 2005 / Ref: odl.9173-650

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