QANM + NOX
1. Musique/ 8. Multi-médias

QANM + NOX

As part of the Multiple World•s meetings

Two sound entities were gathering on Saturday, December 5, at 9 pm to deliver a live.

QANM
Since 2016, the artists Quentin Aurat and Nicks Morrow, respectively active in sound arts and the metal-hardcore scene, have been experimenting long sound performances based on feedback (Larsen effect), analog effects and prepared instruments. This encounter has given birth to QANM (simple acronym of the first names and names of the artists). QANM’s music is dark, minimalist and has to do as much with the context in which it it happens as with the sound itself, as inseparable from the listening experience. Their performances are generally composed of one piece: one unique piece which evolves very slowly, where details emerge when listening through an ability of the body to let itself be carried away by these complex vibrations.
In 2019, they publish an eponymous album composed of two long sound pieces recorded live, played loudly in a non-treated acoustic space, respecting a kind of “less is more” strategy. Between harmony and dissonance, the radicality of the QANM project doesn’t leave you unmoved: in line with the dark ambient and industrial music, Quentin Aurat and Nicks Morrow perform with an almost ritual commitment a bewitching, deep and sometimes chilling sound moment.

Gerome Nox Co-founder in the eighties (with Cecile Babiole and Arno Jussenot) of the industrial group NOX, of which he was the leader until 1994 (R.I.P.), Gerome Nox participated afterwards in exhibitions in France and abroad, regularly collaborated with visual artists, composed and interpreted original sound tracks for live shows and contemporary dance. Ever since, Gerome Nox took advantage of the welcome he received from art schools and collective groups such as the Emmetrop Association (today part of Antre Peaux) to go back to his first love, the “Visual/Sound Arts”. As a result, there were in situ sound installations (Sans Titre / Fréquence / Transpalette / Emmetrop 2010, Drone / Genre Humain / Palais J. Cœur Bourges 2015, Drones /Impétus Festival 2018, among others). Gerome Nox is also co-founder, together with Mister Black Sifichi, of the Dark Ambient duo “BlackNox”. Gerome Nox develops today a work composed of sound matters produced beforehand o recorded live with electric guitars (fetish instrument). Thus, he sculpts the sound matter, manipulates noises and atmospheres, producing an energy sometimes violent, close to aggressive climates, exhilarating, oppressive of urban and industrial environments. His sound landscapes, in perpetual evolution, mix power, the most refined excess and minimalism, directed as much to the gut as to the ears. This work, composed for 95% of computer-treated electric guitars sounds is destined in this instance to be re-injected and broadcasted by an array of amplifiers of the “Marchall” brand, (Rock/Metal iconic figure thus enhanced), producing a “Drone/Dark Ambient” sound universe close to the trance that was already its own objective in the first realizations of the NOX group in the last century. Does it come full circle, then? No!!!! It turns and grows...

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