Selected Recordings

Cybernetic Hypnosis

This album follows on from my experiments with irregular rhythms and, above all, improvisation. It was during the pandemic that I developed an artistic framework, inspired by elements from nature, which I call the METAFORM. It works as a grid for improvisation and composition in real time. It allows me to achieve musical unity throughout the album and great freedom in the interpretation of each piece. Conceived as a soundscape, the album is a succession of polyrhythmic electroacoustic pieces. The interpretation of each piece is improvised and the result is recorded in a single take.

What I call Cybernetic Hypnosis is the state of consciousness I experience when I am on my screens, in which my mind is kept in balance by algorithmic induction technologies that alternately stimulate my deep positive and negative motivations. I try to express this mixture of enthusiasm and nostalgia in a society searching for a new, ambivalent, and increasingly virtualized identity.

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Digital Revolution

Between utopia and depression, progress and regression, I try to express my vision of the modern world with all its contradictions. I explore unusual rhythmic keys in genres where 4/4 is the norm.
"Put Your Money on Me" describes the world of NFTs, where artists, drowning in the immensity of decentralized markets, must attract both investors and fans.
The violent percussion in "I Like It Hard," a song performed live, counterbalances the soft, nostalgic melodies of the break. It is a metaphor for the contradiction between ubiquitous and easily accessible pornography and a growing need for love. In the interlude "Memories of Venus," I explore electroacoustic instrumental improvisations in an unsettling atmosphere of tinnitus, symbolizing a loss of control in an ever-accelerating present. It is one of the few pieces I have composed that is not based on loops. I composed "this is now" inspired by the transhumanist movement and its seemingly inevitable nature. A heavy, ultra-artificial atmosphere, with too many effects symbolizing technological oppression.
In "Digital Revolution," which is actually a waltz, I tried to represent the emergence of the global melting pot that the Internet offers us, where the human race is searching for a new identity, in which freedom and conformity clash.
The track "Discrimination" is a piece I composed on my return to Geneva after several months in Berlin in 2005. Dissonant harmonies over a stressful drum'n'bass base.

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Screenfected

This was my first real project outside my comfort zone, completed in 2008. A research project on the origins of rhythms that took me (through my books) from Africa to Berlin, via Cuba and New Orleans, from myths surrounding mixed rhythms to techno. It was also on this album that I began to explore ternary rhythms and improvisation in my electronic compositions. Resolutely electronic sound constructions punctuated by trance music, synthesizer solos inspired by digital reality as well as science fiction and cyberpunk literature.

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La Pensée

The idea behind this experimental work was to be able to recite poetry over music, while being able to interact on the fly with the arrangement of the piece and the sound of my voice. With one hand, I adjust the potentiometer that controls the location of my voice in space, and with the other, I play with the volume of the rhythm track. The poem written by Oxana Louisa Marek speaks of the immortality of human thought.

High Five

Since experimenting with irregular rhythms, I have set myself the challenge of composing a trance piece based on the rhythms discovered by archaeologists on stones in Delphi. We have no clues as to what the melodies were, unlike the 5/4 rhythm that organized the work. Which DJ will have the courage to surprise the audience and plunge them into a trance, as the ancient Greeks did?

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In the name of You

I composed the first two tracks during my stay in Vienna, with the idea of adding an instrumental touch to my productions. Guitar for the first track, bass and vocals for the second. The electric piano and pads provide the harmonic content of the melodies. "Jobo System" is a track I composed with my good friend DJ Jobaldo from Geneva (Green Label) in mind, featuring the voice of Barbara, a French mezzo-soprano. The third track is a very melancholic electronic piece that I composed during my stay in Berlin.

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Minimal 86

These two tracks were produced at two different times, five or six years apart. I produced "Connection" when I was in Glattbugg (Zurich) and I remember the label manager saying to me at the time: "Yes, the rhythm is cool, the bass too, but the melodies in the break don't work at all..." Thanks to this moment of "misplaced" poetry, this track remains timeless today and is still as popular as ever. "People Turn to Bass" is an ultra-minimalist frenzy in 6/4 time, which asks the listener to let go and enter an endless loop whose filter opens onto infinity.

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Hit my Soul

It was on this track that I recorded my voice for the first time, as well as a guitar solo, which is very unusual in this genre of music. With its captivating Cuban rhythms and razor-sharp arrangement, I tried to find an unconventional balance.

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