Cocoon

Bio:

Writing electronic music is one thing. Presenting it in public is another thing. Renegade of the post-punk scene with his group 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 aka COCOON asks (himself) the question of the presentation of music in public, and more particularly of laptop music. Because for Cocoon this presentation does not go without saying. For Cocoon nothing goes without saying.
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-les-Moulineaux), festival Ososphère (Strasbourg), Le Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou (Paris)... With his sound and visual work he has been invited to participate to several exhibitions such as Nuit Blanche (Paris), Comunismo da Forma (Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo), Insomnies (Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne), Voyeur Home (L140, Paris), Previously on Optical Sound (Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris). He has collaborated with the visual artists Pierre Beloüin (Str Crsh, Ososphère, Strasbourg ; Casino 23, Le Dojo, Nice), P. Nicolas Ledoux (Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris), Icon Tada (Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris), Ultralab (L’île de Paradis, Jeu de Paume, Paris ; Black Night 02, Biennale de Rennes), the choreographer Eva Vandest (June Events, Paris)... His work has been criticized in Libération, on Arte.tv, in the magazines Mouvement, Télérama, The Wire, on the radios France Culture and France Musique... His second album, More Violent Days Are To Come (Optical Sound), has been nominated for the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 2007.
+ infos : http://cocoonmusic.free.fr

Member Since:

August 07, 2007

Members:

Christophe Demarthe

Sounds Like:

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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)

.. Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

Record Label:

optical-sound.com