Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy

Experience the avant-garde soundscape of Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy’s latest cassette, Musique De Produire. Known also as jb, tachycardie, and 0.5 pneu, Geoffroy crafts a unique fusion of conceptual music using computers and synthesizers, redefining electronic expression. Musique De Produire invites listeners into a world of sonic ping pong—a vibrant interplay of binary cartoon sound bites and intricate digital rhythms. This release transcends traditional genre boundaries to deliver musical entertai…

Lise Barkas and Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy’s Notions de Confort is a provocative dismantling of musical ease. Rooted in improvisation yet fractured by raw timbres and spatial instability, it turns comfort into an elusive mirage—challenging the listener to question habitual listening.

Tip! *60 copies limited edition* Also known as Tachycardie, and part of Pneu, Kick5ive, Binidu, La Colonie de Vacances, the musician, field recordist, drummer and Presque Tout co-founder Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy wears many hats. With 'local exoticism' it is the attentive listener who is summoned and twists the notions of exoticism in a sonic investigation of the Loire river’s shores. “The idea behind this project is to go against the accepted principle of exoticism, and the envy that this notion c…

*100 copies limited edition* With a microscopic focus on the snare drum, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy extracts and manipulates its sound in a variety of tunings whilst maintaining a precision and simplicity of method and form. This exercise is a common one for the artist, in which he limits both the instruments used and the techniques with which its sounds are processed — in this case using only reverb and hard EQ-ing to engineer the final outcome. Even with these self-imposed restrictions, there is a…