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Noise manufacturing according to Smith |
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| Location: | Paris, |
| Country: |  France |
| Last Login: | Nov 29, 2007 (755 days back) |
About Me |
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–––––––––––––––––––– – (...) whichever way I turn I see nothing but the odds and ends of odd places. Genuflecting behind absurd trees the idiot spits out spasms of silence and solitary games for eared-eyes ; mapping zones of nothingness to hear scribblings in the air ; espying the noise-print of time through a velvet grid. A quiet walk in unwonted constructions full of dust and fossils. (...) ... this sthintosmithereens page displays the "exhaustive" live project of multi-instrumentalist/composer Franck William Smith – collapsing the wide range of personal research on sound-esthetics developped on his private collection of recordings Odiolorgnette. ... as Franck Smith or Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg he performs a repertoire of solo rituals (or mono-rites) using self-configured digital electronics w/ analogic sound processing modules... ... and conducts the "sonic formula" Qoo-ij orium... Check also odiolorgnette at: myspace.com/ordiolorgnette Photos by Julien Smith – All rights reserved. –––––––––––––––––––– – Hereafter: Handsonic diary : Echo Systems
* Discographic works on Odiolorgnette !!! COMPLETE SELECTION OF UP-LOADED VIDEOS CAN BE SEEN ON youtube.com/odiolorgnette !!! –––––––––––––––––––– – |
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Music:Member Since: 4/20/2007Band 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) Sounds Like: If possible use headphones when viewing video material or connect your computer to quite decent sound systems. –––––––––––––––––––– – 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).––––––––––––––––– ––– –––––––––––––––––––– – 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) – Order directly from Odiolorgnette Listen to selected cuts (...) –––––––––––––––––––– – –––––––––––––––––––– – 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).––––––––––––––––– ––– –––––––––––––––––––– – !!! COMPLETE SELECTION OF UP-LOADED VIDEOS CAN BE SEEN ON youtube.com/odiolorgnette !!! If possible use headphones when viewing video material or connect your computer to quite decent sound systems. For details on discographic works go to: www.odiolorgnette.com –––––––––––––––––––– – "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 Price: 14,50€ (Free postage) – Order directly from Odiolorgnette –––––––––––––––––––– – 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). –––––––––––––––––––– – "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 Price: 14,50€ (Free postage) – Order directly from Odiolorgnette –––––––––––––––––––– – –––––––––––––––––––– – Check also odiolorgnette at: myspace.com/ordiolorgnette Record Label: Odiolorgnette Type of Label: Indie |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Other / Experimental / Electronica) |
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Qiipnm’id Yorgomng’s 1st recording November 2007 |
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Posted by Smith Franck on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:22:00 PST |
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NEW DISCS OUT ON ODIOLORGNETTE |
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| Order directly from Odiolorgnette's myspace page.More infos on Odiolorgnette complete catalogue at: www.odiolorgnette.com.......................................
......................... Posted by Smith Franck on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:39:00 PST |
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UP COMING RELEASE Qoo-ij orium |
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| The first recording of the "sonic formula" Qoo-ij orium will be out in September 2007 on Odiolorgnette.........................................."Trom
pe-l'oeil & bagatelles" contains a collection of ne... Posted by Smith Franck on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:43:00 PST |
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NEW RECORDING ''Nekrob umics'' by Franck Smith |
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Posted by Smith Franck on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:22:00 PST |
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Odiolorgnette, Qiipnm’id Yorgomnüg, Qoo-ij orium, dave phillips, Tzadik, Cosmic Shenggy, Maja Ratkje, QR Soundhour, Hugues Vincent, zbigniew karkowski, 李劲松(Li Chin Sung), koichi Shimizu, nanako, Acousmatic Records, audio artefacts, Tô, Henrik Rylander, ASTRO / Hiroshi Hasegawa, Cría Cuervos, el lazo invisible, Monobloc sound fidelity, Noise Asia, Important Records, Lngtché, EPSILONIA, potz blitz!, scorpio rising, Parti Pris, Handsonic Technics, LEZET, TePeKaLeSOUND, Etude Records, John Zorn, Epoch Collapse, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, ONE STOP ELTRC LABEL SHOP, K. Cornelius, Kassel Jaeger, NOISEISTANBUL, Sauna Startelett, THE URSULA MINOR, Orpheus Z, arcticbeard, bc, sympathetic!DIVISION, James Hagger, You, Me, Us and Them, 18000018018018401, Arturas Bumsteinas, IUAO, PANDA PORN, DestraDecibelResearch, Claudia H, maszkarony, chieko mori, Chaotic Mind, Desolation Zone, Adam Asnan, the pandas, DJ Unu, Death Haze
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