YANNICK FRANCK: Off to Tallinn

Sound experimentalist, performer, founder of independent label Idiosyncratics and curator of art center Les Brasseurs, Yannick Franck (°1981, Liège, Belgium) has developed a highly personal body of work that ranges from sharp acoustic researches, immersions into abrasive walls of sound (often described as trance-inducing, his music is based on the treatment of sources such as instruments and non-musical objects, throat singing, radio signals and field recordings) intense audiovisual performances and art shows (including installations, paintings and video works).

He’s part of industrial-noise duo Orphan Swords and founder of electroacoustic improvisation combo Y.E.R.M.O. (Venice Biennial 2009, Pavilion of Luxembourg).   

He has collaborated with many artists including Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Craig Hilton, Pietro Riparbelli / K11 and Esther Venrooy among others.  

He has performed in venues and festivals such as Issue Project Room (New York, USA), Northeastern University (Boston, USA), MUDAM (Luxembourg, LU), Philharmonie du Luxembourg (Luxembourg, LU), Young Arts Biennial (Moscow, RU), European Performance Art Festival (Warsaw, PL), Instants Chavirés (Paris, FR), Ausland (Berlin, DE), Electronic Church (Berlin, DE), Q-O2 (Brussels), Bozar Electronic Arts Festival (Brussels, BE), WIELS (Brussels, BE), Interactive Media Art Laboratory (Brussels, BE), Scheld'hapen (Antwerp, BE) among many others. 

YANNICK FRANCK

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Off to Tallinn