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Joachim Montessuis

Country: France

Joachim Montessuis is a French artist working since the early 1990s with voice, drone, noise and resonance. His performances use amplified and electronically processed screams, throat singing and words aimed at trance states. Based in Paris, he founded the Erratum label and teaches sound and intermedia art at HEAR in Strasbourg. Joachim Montessuis set up Erratum to publish art, noise and experimental sound poetry. He has worked with Henri Chopin, Charlemagne Palestine, Phill Niblock, Gary Hill, Maja Ratkje and Julien Ottavi, among others.

22 BĪJA
*22 copies limited edition* To paraphrase Éliane Radigue's famous double 7" record, the two discs you hold in your hands are designed to be listened to either separately or simultaneously, synchronously or asynchronously. Similarly, the sides of thes…
L'Enfer
*200 copies limited edition* Harsh noise wall and static pneuma.
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word (Book)
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, reveal…
Snow Crash
Voodoo noise and poetry : what is sound, what is poetry? What is this reality and how are we perceiving it? This LP brings together two extreme and loud vocal performers digging and channeling invisible realities through electronically expanded proto…
Le vray remède d'amour
**300 copies** Le vray remède d'amour is a collection of seven tracks recorded between 2012 and 2019 with a 'Boîte à Bourdons/Drone Box' constructed by Léo Maurel, a mechanical electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy with four strings and sliders to play an adju…
Janus
Recorded, composed, mixed between Paris & Oslo, the Janus LP is a collaboration started in 2008 and finished in 2013. Experimental mouth music duet, free interlaced vocal noises, sonic poetry and free electronics. A convergent formal meeting of two c…
Voxorgachitectronumputer
Charlemagne Palestine: (voice/organs), X Joachim Montessuis: (voice/computer). After two massive works, From Etudes To Cataclysms (SR 272CD) - for the Doppio Borgato and Strumming Music (SR 297CD) for piano, harpsichord and strings ensemble, Charlem…