tokoloten
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tokoloten has been fighting against heavy metal contamination in the seaweeds of (unknown) swiss lagoons for years. This explains the 3-o name (mispelled though). This might sound strange (literally it is) but it ended up in some musical inspiration... brackish music? Just listen... tiny or huge noise, weird atmospheres, overdriven beats. Unable to play guitar like Frank Zappa (that is pretty normal actually), tokoloten uses a variety of objects such as magnet motors, infrared devices, game controllers... in order to hide this lack of technic.
tokoloten lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Official website: tokoloten.furibond.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/tokoloten
Blog: blog.furibond.com
[in french]
L'objet musical tokoloten est né de l'esprit d'un musicien apatride influencé par le free-jazz jusqu'au-bruitiste d'un Otomo, l'humour grinçant d'un Zappa, les syncopes saturées d'un Aaron Funk... Comprenant rapidement qu'il serait vain de tenter d'approcher leur génie, tokoloten ne se prive cependant pas d'explorer le matériau sonore à travers l'essorage viril de programmes informatiques, le maniement sans précaution d'objets divers (moteurs électriques, hydrophones, contrôleurs de jeux vidéos...) et une petite pointe d'auto-dérision. tokoloten envisage chaque performance live comme une pièce unique, aidé en cela par les accidents qui la parsèment continuellement.
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Stunning satellite images 1 week ago
In 2000 NASA's scientists displayed at the Library of Congress in Washington images they had chosen among hundreds thousands taken by the Landsat satellites. Some of the most stunning images I have ever seen.
To see more of them : http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecolo...
Kikuri 1 week ago
Two legends of noise music play in Geneva tonight, and they play together!
July 15th, 2008 / 9:30 pm
La Cave 12 @ KAB
KIKURI: Merzbow + Keiji Haino
More details on cave12.org
Les Digitales de la Chaux-de-Fonds 2 weeks ago
Herebelow is the programme of the festival Les Digitales that takes place at la Chaux-de-Fonds on August 30th.
LES DIGITALES DE LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS
Samedi 30 ao
Loop Station-like AU plug-in 2 weeks ago
I started working on a max/msp patch that'd do what the Boss Loop Station pedals do: layering loops in real-time. I don't have much experience with max so it was a good project to get better skills. Version 5 of max has really brought some great improvements, like the dyna...
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hey mate!, nice to see you in this tidy space. yeah, would be nice to meet up one day...and maybe that day is not that far, trust me. stay creative! filippo
posted Jun 27
Gagosian Liga says:
Merci de m'avoir ajouté! Heureux d'avoir fait votre connaissance virtuelle! Je vous salue de Munich!
posted Feb 18