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Cocoon

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Much more than a mere sound object based on an album concept, Cocoon can be read as a global artistic project. Cocoon's show We need a volunteer first looks like a classic concert of electronic music (with table, computer, and video) before it becomes - through a succession of changes - a show close to a performance, asking for an active participation of the public, banishing the passive listening of laptopers. The stage disposition creates a real contrast with the characteristic immobility of electronic music concerts, and definitively places itself at the crossing point of image, sound and live show, for a moving transdisciplinarity.
Since its creation in 2004, Cocoon has been invited to perform in various artistic events such as festival Nowa Fabryka (Bytom, Poland), festival Emergences/Villette Numérique (Paris), festival Emo-Son (Bourges), Salon des Editeurs Light (Paris), Qwartz Awards (Paris), Le Cube (Issy)... With his sound and video work he has been invited to participate to the exhibitions Nuit Blanche (Paris), Comunismo da Forma (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Pierre Beloüin's "Str Crsh" (festival Ososphère, Strasbourg), Ultralab's "L'île de Paradis" (Jeu de Paume, Paris)... His work has been criticized in Libération, on Arte.tv, in the magazines Mouvement, Télérama, The Wire, on the national radios France Culture, France Musique... His second album, More Violent Days Are To Come (Optical Sound), has been nominated for the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 2007.
Cocoon is a solo project by Christophe Demarthe, founding member and singer of the French band Clair Obscur which was one of the first groups in the 80s in France which made links between music, visual arts, dance and theatre. Christophe Demarthe has been working for many years at the frontier of sound and visual arts. He has created sound architectures for theatre, dance, visual arts... He has also written music for the radio, the television and the cinema. In 2004 he created Cocoon, releasing his debut album on the French label Optical Sound .
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Member Since: 07/08/2007
Band Website: http://cocoonmusic.free.fr
Band Members: Christophe Demarthe
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MORE VIOLENT DAYS ARE TO COME
(optical-sound.com - OS.012 - 2005)

DEBUT ALBUM
(optical-sound.com - OS.007 - 2004)

THE WIRE :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"Christophe Demarthe, formerly from experimental renegades Claire Obscure, makes terse statements on the nature of power and sexuality on his debut Cocoon release. Loops are kept hard and jagged, overt references to Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye are inserted; alienation makes itself known." Ken Hollings, February 2006

LIBERATION ::::::::::::::::::::::::
"a cinematographic debut album tensed between hypnotic ambient and computer disturbances, motionless layers and almost dancing pieces, melodic loops and noisy incursions. (...) By making you smile, react or think on topics which go further beyond the strict musical field, Cocoon re-weaves this link which has been dismantled during often abrupt laptop concerts." Marie Lechner, 01 October 2004

MOUVEMENT :::::::::::::::::::::::
"The remarkable thing, all Cocoon's album long, is the dramatic breathe that builds the musical speech. It makes Cocoon being a fully artistic work. It is enough to make cocoon's music an autonomous source of rapture." David Sanson, 10 June 2004

ARTE.TV ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"Unexpectable is the chain, especially beautiful and worked on are the pictures. A marvel that could have been in itself a disk." Laurence Rilly, 14 June 2004 (about the CD-Rom)

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Record Label: optical-sound.com
Type of Label: Indie

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