Experimental music.
Sonic Protest is a festival of improvised, electro-acoustic, noisy and experimental music. In the land of formatted festivals, it assumes its outsider position and has been tearing demanding ears apart since 2003.
2017 is the occasion for a new collaboration between Le Générateur and the Sonic Protest Festival around four leading artists of this music that is neither truly learned, nor truly popular.
Damien Dubrovnik
A duo made up of Loke Rahbek (Lust For Youth, Croatian Amor,etc.) and Christian Stadsgaard, both founders of the Posh Isolation label, whose activity as producers continues to grow. Taking up the codes of industrial and power-electronic music, Damien Dubrovnik instills an unprecedented degree of emotion: beyond the clichés, often attached to this genre, of “power” and “domination”, fragility, fear and anguish come to the fore. The group’s performances continue the experimentation of ritual music and are not averse to referencing contemporary art in its most performative vein.
Ghédalia Tazartès & Low Jack
Since 1979, Ghédalia Tazartès has been experimenting, with his own voice, with the sonorities of oriental music, between acoustic and amplified music in a kind of shamanic, inhabited trance of which he alone has the secret. Associated, like Anne Gillis, with the industrial and experimental scene of the 1980s, his work goes far beyond any one genre, making him a totally unclassifiable figure. Philippe, aka Low Jack, is a producer, DJ and runs the Gravats label with Jean Carval. His name has been circulating in techno circles since the early 2010s, often associated with the In Paradisum label (also home to Somaticae or Mondkopf, who collaborated with Charlemagne Palestine at Sonic Protest 2015). Invited by Siestes Électroniques in 2014, he explored the music of the Garifunas (an ethnic group inhabiting various Central American countries) on the record Garifunas Variations released by L.I.E.S records, one of the most talked-about techno labels. His music is constantly evolving and, far from limiting himself to a single field (as his DJ-sets attest), Low Jack is today one of the most adventurous voices in electronic music. These two musicians, who are separated by more than forty years, offered to meet on stage at Sonic Protest: banco!”
Anne Gillis
French artist who emerged in the early 1980s in the wake of a broad post-punk and industrial scene, from which she stood out for her radicalism and originality. Working on intimate spheres, where the human voice plays a predominant role, her five albums of the 80s are all very different. Absent for over fifteen years (her latest work is a collaboration with GX Jupitter-Larsen, of the legendary The Haters), she has never ceased to fascinate, touching on the spheres of experimental, contemporary and improvised music, and even the techno scene, where her play on repetition has left its mark. His creations are also plastic, playing on sound objects and the imagination they conjure up. His return to the stage is obviously eagerly awaited.
In partnership with Sonic Protest.