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   CRANK STURGEON / us
   CALCUTTA DESERT / fr
   ZOHASTRE / fr/uk
   I R / fr/cz

   - - - - - jeudi 09 / 06 / 2016 - - - - -

   LES NAUTES
   1 Quai des Céléstins
   75004 M° Sully-Morland (7)

   20:30

   6€

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   CRANK STURGEON/us portland, maine

   Performeur noise extraordinaire, prolifique et bien bigger than life :
   joue la plupart du temps déguisé/
   accoutré de divers et seyants assemblages faits ad hoc de bric & de broc,
   - dada meets arte povera - évoquant (ou pas) son poisson emblématique.

   NB / Il lui arrive - par ailleurs - très fréquemment de performer aussi en duo avec son alter ego
   & compatriote local, l'inénarrable idm theft able.

   Crank Sturgeon has been active in performance, installation, and sound art since 1992.
   A comical conceptualist, Crank blends pun and the profane into noisy, happy accidents.
   Accompanied by ridiculous costuming, athletic endurance, and audience participation, the end result is often a recipe that embraces the loud, the wet, and the celebratory.

   Also as an indefatigable nomad, Crank frequently tours his one man show across the USA and Europe; in 2010, as a featured performer at the NorCal Noise Festival, in Sacramento, CA; performing amplified badminton for the annual SPACE Block Party (curated by SPACE Gallery, in Portland, ME); as well as a solo installation at the MEME Gallery in Cambridge, MA. In recent years, Crank has also been a resident at Projektwerkstatt, an experimental artist workspace in Leipzig, Germany; guest artist at CESTA, an intermedia residency in Tabor, Czech Republic; as well as countless festivals such as WORM (held at the Rotterdam Institute of Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands), Wez to Wylasç, Warsaw, Poland, and the Antennae Festival, Paris, France.
   (Bob Bellerue, Ende Tymes festival)

   ’
   Someone very nicely put Crank Sturgeon under this heading of noise, so I’ll follow through. As Crank Sturgeon (um, that’d be me), I’m very grateful to be included as a member of the community. I do make noise; I also make vocal sounds, contact mics, collage, destroyed folk musings, bad poems (which I like to project on walls), and visual disturbances in the form of installations, masks, and assemblages with motors that belch and spit stuff out. In general? I’ve been recording and performing since 1990; as Crank Sturgeon since ‘92. My (human) influences are Dada, Hugo Ball, Joseph Beuys, Rube Goldberg, James Joyce, Bucky Fuller, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters/Merz, Antonin Artaud, Allan Kaprow, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Captain Beefheart, the Residents, Lloyd Kahn, Donald Burgy, and Fred Frith; (nonhuman) influences? I like pointy-nosed beasts, bizarre landscapes like Turkey (or Montana), and so forth. And then there are the people who provide inspiration in the day-to-day tangle (many of whom are also good pals): Id m Theft Able, Eric Boros, Vialka, Emil Beaulieau, Kit Demos, de Hondenkoekjesfabriek, Fever Spoor, Fritz Welch, Hans Michaud, Southernman, Abandoned Records, Gastric Female Reflex, Jelle Crama, Colin Barton, PCRV, Xome, Nautical Almanac, Cerberus Shoal, Massaccesi, QfwfQ, Micha Barthel, Raionbashi, Dennis Tyfus, Monopolka, Dave Philips, Kelly Nesbitt, and Clog Wornago. Friends 'r good: they keep the membrane from becoming a redundant meme by constantly poking new holes in it and inspiring you; they raise the bar of expectation every single time. So I do my damnedest to at least TRY and do this with my work as well. It doesn’t always work, but the worst failures are often the best boards to leap from. As a result, I’ve learned to try and turn accidents into pleasureable and fun experiences as they happen. A surprising consequence of this is that it forces the “art” back into a stream of conscious dynamic; no matter how familiar one is with one’s tools or work, it can always be turned upside down and improvised into something new. Applying this to a live context, it almost feels more narrative than “noise”, per se, although I prefer the energy of noise vs that of institutionalized art and academic crowds. But then again, we’re all human… so very serious and yet all it takes is slipping on a banana peel or some other cosmic fuck-up to place us all back onto the same planet and playing field. I guess I shoulda’ gone into something geared more towards studying human behavior, but ahhh you know? noise feels more at home.
   love,
   Crank Sturgeon

   http://www.ishitnoise.com/wiki/index.php?title=CRANK_STURGEON
   http://vimeo.com/68616570
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KG3j__4MSs
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHg-tEpQoH4
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQKr0rmXWew
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqbMNNDuSwk
   http://www.cranksturgeon.com/
   http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Crank_Sturgeon/

   CALCUTTA DESERT / fr paris
   Musique précaire pour mendiants de la vraie vie.
   Tap & Tapes in Family War, AES*& PES*.
   Petit théâtre en compagnie des morts.
   Requiem burlesque. Bande-son de Remake
   Non mais ne prenez pas de photos je sais faire autre chose vous savez.

   Homeless Music for Real Life Beggars.
   Tap & Tapes in Family War, AES*& PES*.
   Burlesque Requiem. Remake SoundTrack Recording
   Target Practice for The Naked & The Dead.
   He's here because of his broke up convector

   https://vimeo.com/51363602 https://youtu.be/_0fRFcOfDh8

   ZOHASTRE / fr/uk
   is the duo project of ZAM&ZAM Héloïse ZamZam (H) etOlmo Uiutna They run the cassette label & superfuture network zamzamrec > http://www.zamzamrec.org/ and play together as ZOHASTRE
   < Etoile Etrange /\ Quark Star > ***divagations cosmisques***epic melodies*** -- horns n beats -- glitch [nrd] [n__s_] electronica --
   <v>
   + n i g h t a n d t r e e s + + u ᴉ ƃ ɥ ʇ ɐ u p ʇ ɹ ǝ ǝ s +
   v^v
   http://www.zamzamrec.org/ZOHASTRE http://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/quark-star-toile-trangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoyQEAz1_v4&feature=youtu.be

   I R / fr/czakaPoprvé a za peníze (cz) + Romano Krzych (fr/cz)

   "Activistes bookers de la scène pragoise des musiques déviantes (Black Parachuts, Rogomichkin, A2+, Rádio-Nuda,..... ....) et proches du label KLaNGundKRaCH, nous apparaissons disparaissons sous divers noms et projets plutôt radicaux arte povera , le plus souvent bordeliques ou bruitistes.A la marge de la marge, nous trouvons encore assez d'air pour de nouvelles apnées et jouer le jeu le temps de quelques soirs.
   Poprvé a za peníze : guitar, objets, metal, piezzos, mixtable
   Romano Krzych : machine, pedals, voices, sax alto
   https://ir2music.bandcamp.com/

   FFly : : Frédéric Fleury

   http://nnjzz.tumblr.com/

   http://i.imgur.com/ITnJNoZ.jpg

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