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ÉTANT DONNÉS
strive to point out a place.
A sacred place.
This place is a name.
No word speaks the name.
AlI mouths are opened to the name.
AlI ways lead to the name
and no way reaches the name.
The place of the name is
there and here.
We are outside the skin of the name.
We can see the name
only through its skin.
lts skin is our skin.
The name of the skin is inside.
Name and skin.
to be and to give.

ÉTANT DONNÉS
by Henri Chopin
Étant Donnés is a duet by Eric and Marc Hurtado created in Grenoble in 1980. From this French town, it rapidly became international, especially in Europe.
Born in 1959 and 1962 respectively, in Rabat, Morocco, the two brothers have chosen both orality and writing, with a clear, semantic word, yet without the burden of grammar.
Through them, it is the volume of each word that becomes an object-sculpture, together with the power of their bodies expressing their voices.
Each event is the scream - indeed even the glissando - of the strength of the word that sometimes abruptly becomes a rock, a solid surface, not in the least fluvial, as is the narrative of a tale, novel or poetic epic.
With both of them, no more trace of ancient prosodies, no more trace the incomprehensible Sainte-Beuve who could claim "I have to collect a volume of prose".
The word, the voice, the volume take shape with each other, unveiling a theatre that theatre usually ignores, which has given it such things as a Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie.
Moreover listening to 'Aurore', our two actors' CD, undoubtedly owing to the influence of the Mediterranean cradle, single umbilical cord of two great religions, the influence of both Latin and Arab worlds - Gaelic short and long sounds can sometimes be perceived - since their dictions are such a synthesis of several origins.
Nothing is left here of the schools of a Charles Dullin, so dear to the ComÃ©die FranÃ§aise. On the contrary, ETANT DONNÃ‰S is a corporal and semantic circus, yet without semantics.
With their oral and combinative strengths, Eric and Marc give us the action of theatre, from which dictions and descriptive declamations disappear. I could write to them in early December 1994: "[...] in the power of voices and semantics, as well as in the severe body/mind combination, inseparable from each other, I find in Aurore a song of the bodies, indispensable to any sound values. "
In addition to their violences, their sensuous delicacies often in these word cutouts, their nakedness and lights -indeed even made up - come accounts of naked men who need neither conventional costumes nor the devices of traditional stages any more.
What I felt on listening to Aurore was confirmed by Patrick Bossati in May 1992, in this excerpt:
"Be it poetry, cinema, sound, stage, everything the two of them do is done with a kind of rage that leaves you stunned. Their sound, for example, extensive, grave and apocalyptic, mixed from amplified natural elements, make those who listen dumbfounded. Their art is staggering in every respect, in the 16th century sense of the French word 'sidÃ©rant', when it meant: 'influenced by the stars'. Their music is a radioscopy of the chaos of the universe and of matter."
This duet, I insist, took form in 1980. It is part of the ineluctable (re)birth of oralities - exorcists - both re-discovered and discovered in the electronic worlds. Together with the passion of travels, where Etant DonnÃ©s is "staggering in every respect".
Any true sound poetry is shattering, the really oral one is there in space, with the plus of the media machines, of the voices that slip through them, overwhelming them with the splendour of the bodies.
Henri Chopin
Etant Donnes
Etant Donnes with Alan Vega
Etant Donnes with Alan Vega
photo © Joseph Caprio
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Member Since: 7/6/2006
Band Website: etant-donnes.com
Band Members:
Eric & Marc Hurtado
w/ occasional super special guests
Alan Vega
Genesis P-Orridge
Mark Cunningham
Michael Gira
Master Musicians of Jajouka
...
Sounds Like:

Blindspeed
ETANT DONNES "Dog's attack" Remixed by Exotica / SOL IXENT "Blind Speed"" / "Sparkle 1" Remixed by Miss Kittin & The Hacker / "Burn down"
LP -(Fiat Lux). Paris, France. 2004

La Vie Nouvelle
Phillipe Grandieux's soundtrack film (A NEW LIFE)
Cd -(Virgin Labels). Paris, France. 2003

Wonderland
Cd -(Wonderland). France. 2001
+ Book + Libro + Livre

Offenbarung Und Untergang
Cd -(Dsa). Nancy, France. 1999
(+ Michael Gira & Mark Cunningham)

Re-Up
Cd - (Dsa). Nancy, France. 1999
(+ Alan Vega, LydÃa Lunch, GenesÃs P. OrrÃdge, Mark CunnÃngham and Bachir Attar)

Le Sang Est Le Mur De L'etoile
Cd -(Staalplaat). Amsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1998

Bleu
Cd -(Staalplaat). Amsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1993

El Carro
45t. Ep -(G3g).Barcelone, Espagne. 1993

Aimant + Aimant
Cd - + Die Form ( Danceteria) . Lille, France. 1992

Le Sens Positif / L'autre Rive
2 Cds - (Staalplaat). Amsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1992
+ Book + Libro + Livre

Royaume
Cd -(Touch). Londres, Cb. 1991

Aurore
Cd -(Touch). Londres, Cb. 1990

Bruitiste
33t. 2lp - (Rrrecords). Lowell, Usa. 1988
+ P16 D4. Esplendor Geometrico, Vivenza

Le Sens Positif
33t. Lp -(Dma2) . Bordeaux, France. 1987

L' Eclipse
K7- (Staalplaat). Arnsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1985

Mon Coeur
K7- (Vita Nova). Grenoble, France. 1985

Cent Jours Clairs / Cinq Portes Soudees
K7- (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1984

Plutot L'exil Du Cinq DorÃ©
45t. Ep - (Vita Nova). Grenoble, France. 1983

Ceux Que J'aime / Ce Que Je Hais
K7 - (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1983

L'Ã©toile Au Front
K7- (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1982

L' Opposition Et Les Cases Conjuguees Sont Reconciliees
K7 - (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1981

La Vue
K7 - (Bain Total). Bourg En Bresse, France. 1981

Filmography
Bleu 1994
Royaume 1991
Aurore 1989
L'Autre Rive 1986
Le Soleil, La Mer, Le Coeur Et les Etoiles 1984
Des Autres terres Souples
(Pre.Monde, L'Ame Ou La Vue Cède) 1982
All those films are also in video by STAALPLAAT. PO BOX 11453, 1001 GL, AImsterdam

Bibliography

Wonderland
(Wonderland). France. 2001
+ CD 3 tracks

Le Sens Positif / L'autre Rive
(Staalplaat). Amsterdam, Pays-Bas. 1992
+ 2 Cds

L' Unique Hermetique by Eric Hurtado
(Ed. Saint-Germain des Pres). Paris, France. 1982

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

First track of HURTACKER (Marc Hurtado/The Hacker) in the Electronic Manifesto 2 cd

The first title of HURTACKER named Demi Sang had appears on the compilation Electronic Manifesto 2 edited by the label Divine Comedy Records. This compilation contains The Hacker and HIV+,V...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:01:00 PST

GABI DELGADO and MARC HURTADO s project NEUE WELTUMFASSENDE RESISTANCE

NEUE WELTUMFASSENDE RESISTANCE the project of GABI DELGADO (DAF) and MARC HURTADO ( ETANT DONNES, SOL IXENT ) have his official page on Myspace: www.myspace.com/neueweltumfas...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:43:00 PST

The film BLEU by Etant Donnés in Grenoble

The film Bleu by Etant Donnés (1994) will be presented by Metamkine in Grenoble the 20 of October 2007 for celebrating the 20 years of the 102
Posted by Etant Donnes on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:03:00 PST

one track of Etant Donnés on Archive 1 compilation

The track of Etant Donnés Dog's Attack appears on the compilation Archive 1 for with the re-edition of the cult book Warten. The cd contains tracks of Frieder Butzmann, Column O...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:02:00 PST

Extract of the film BLEU by Etant Donnés in RVB-Transfert

An extract of the 8 mn film BLEU directed in 1994 by Marc Hurtado and produced by Etant Donnés appears on the dvd compilation RVB-Transfert. You can watch this extract in YOU TUBE at :...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:48:00 PST

new track by NEUE WELTUMFASSENDE RESISTANCE

The new track Drache und Baum by Neue Weltumfassende Resistance appears on the Endzeit Bunkertracks Act II edited by the Alfa Matrix. This 4 CD compilation contains Leaether Str...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:22:00 PST

1 title of Etant Donnés on the Ars Macabre compilation

Etant Donnés had their title MELANIA'S TEARS that appears on the compilation LISTEN TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT edited by Ars Macabre. This compilation contains Muslimgause,The Hafler Trio, Asmus Tietchens...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:45:00 PST

new title by Etant Donnés on the Coilectif compilation

Etant Donnés have their new title named CHAIR on the compilation COILECTIF edited by Rotorelief. This CD/Vinyl is a compilation in homage to Coil featuring Vivenza,Jac Berrocal,Deficit des...
Posted by Etant Donnes on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:40:00 PST