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Martin Messier

MARTIN MESSIER IS A COMPOSER, PERFORMER AND VIDEOMAKER. IF SOUND STANDS AS THE DRIVING FORCE OF HIS WORK, MESSIER ALSO QUICKLY TOOK AN INTEREST IN THE CLASH BETWEEN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC AND OTHER ART FORMS AS WELL AS IN ARTISTIC COLLABORATION. THAT WAY, IT IS THROUGH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND MATERIAL (OBJECTS OR BODIES) THAT MESSIER’S WORK TAKE SHAPE. MESSIER CONSTANTLY REDEFINE THE FRONTIERS OF CONCRETE MUSIC BY CREATING SOUNDS WITH EVERYDAY LIFE OBJECTS, SUCH AS ALARM CLOCKS, PENS, SELF-CONCEIVED MACHINES AND SEWING MACHINES.

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Antonin Artaud

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, in Marseille; died March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a playwright, actor, director, poet and artist. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine (little Anthony), and was among a long list of names which Artaud went by throughout his life.

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Company Fuck

Company Fuck is a one-man noisecore karaoke explosion. CxFx works in his own distinctive sonic territory combining extreme vocal improvisation, digital noise, hacked electronics, and deliberate musical homage/parody. With no allegiance to one sound or scene, CxFx simultaneously plunders pirated pop music whilst also blowing apart the formulas of so-called 'underground' genres. CxFx often sounds like one man conjuring a million artists together for a bloody entangled mess of manic audio intercourse and copyright infringement. Nobody is safe from the CxFx treatment.

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Ian Vine

Ian Vine (born 3 January 1974 in Portsmouth) is a British composer. Vine spent his formative years in Libya and Hong Kong. His music has been performed across Europe and further afield, and broadcast worldwide.
His music has been released on the Accidental, Kairos and London Sinfonietta labels. He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert (b.1934, UK) and privately with Simon Holt (b.1958, UK).

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Loren Connors

Loren Connors is a talented guitarist who has been recording his unique style of playing for more than a twenty years. During this time he has also recorded under the name Guitar Roberts. Recently Connors has been receiving more recognition, due possibly to his many collaborations with artists such as Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Rafael Toral, Ikue Mori and also No Neck Blues Band/Test member Mathew Heyner on In Twilight. Connors' recorded output is impressive, having somewhere in the vicinity of 30 releases on different labels and on various formats.

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Little Teeth

Little Teeth is what happens when you give classically trained vocalists a few folk instruments (banjo, glockenspiel and mandolin, among others) and tell them to make music from the heart. The San Francisco-based trio consists of Dannie Murrie, Sofia Bell and Sean Real, who — when combining forces — create a sound they like to classify as “orchestral noise folk.” It’s non-traditional, yet melodious and catchy.

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Michael Snow

Michael Snow is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music. He is considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers. Originally a professional jazz musician, Snow has a long-standing interest in improvised music, as indicated by the soundtrack to his film "New York Eye and Ear Control". As a pianist, he has performed solo and with other musicians in North America, Europe and Japan.

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