06 May 2027 ・ 20:00 ・ Club Wakuum
FRANTX
FRANTX is a glit-noise band based in Paris, bringing together two young improvisers of French origin and two of Italian origin.
Animated by the noise-punk ghost of the ’90s and immersed in post-internet sonic drifts, FRANTX writes songs in Piedmontese and improvises electro-acoustic collages between a TikTok chain and musique concrète. FRANTX creates a dimension of hyper-speed where the four instrumentalists find themselves blurred together in a grumble reclaiming love and sweets, shouted through a vocoder.
The four members of FRANTX explore the limits of their instruments through extended techniques, heterodox amplification systems and electronic extensions; always in search of new modes of interaction, construction and mutual destruction. FRANTX was born to question our roles as improvising musicians and target the political dimension in which we are supposed to exist as performers and composers in the contemporary music field. Music for weird legged dancers, but also to explore new ways of listening, ambiguous flickering and never on hold.
Andrea Giordano is an Italian musician based in Oslo.
As composer, improviser and singer, she develops her language through two main fields: Piedmontese dialect and hyper-instrumentation. She primarily focuses on her solo work, based on voice samples, while also working with her large ensemble, Àlea, collaborating with the visual artist Kjell Bjørgeengen and performing in duos with Fanny Meteier and Eivind Lønning. In recent years, she has completed a Bachelor’s degree at the Siena Jazz University, a Master’s in Jazz with Sidsel Endresen at NMH in Oslo, and a Bachelor’s in Classical Composition with Lene Grenager.
After a rich musical formation with diverse teachers, Fanny studied tuba in Paris at CNSMDP. Her strong musical personality and her insatiable curiosity drive her to explore new repertoires : already involved in contemporary creation and research about the timbre of her instrument (with Ensemble Intercontemporain, TM+, ensemble 0, LIKEN), she plays with aesthetic borders and directs her work towards free improvisation, jazz and mixed arts performance thus playing in various festivals, national and international venues (with Volmir Cordeiro, Billy Bultheel, Violaine Lochu, Orchestre National de jazz, 2035 collective
Pierre Pradier is a guitarist, improviser and composer.
A graduate from CNSMDP, where he studied contemporary music, improvisation and electro-acoustic composition.
His musical personality, particularly inspired by contemporary, free jazz, rock and experimental repertoires, is expressed in the fields of musical creation, artistic performance, theater and video, devoting himself to encompassing the instrument in a large variety of styles and situations.
In 2023, he participated in the launch concert of the Ensemble(s) Contemporary Music Festival in the creation, with the 2e2m ensemble, of the composition “Zones” by Jean-Luc Hervé.
Marco Luparia (they/them) is a Piedmontese composer, percussionist and electronic artist who develops an idiom encompassing contemporary writing, improvisation and various ancient musical traditions. Recurring themes in their work are the imaginary of mystical ruralism, paramnesia and gender identification. Their current research takes many different forms, from compositions for large ensembles to sound installations and solo performances.
