YANNICK FRANCK WORKS

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Friday, March 22, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Hierophany | Иерофания CD

I'm pleased to announce the release of my new album Hierophany | Иерофания on russian label Monochrome Vision.

you can listen samples and order your copy now on my bandcamp page:

http://yannickfranck.bandcamp.com/album/hierophany

I'll send the CDs as soon as I receive them from the label (it should be really soon)

My only advice is: play LOUD, relax and let yourself be drawn into it!

Feel also free to order them directly from the label: http://www.monochromevision.ru/mv44.html

Label presentation:

"In such conservative genre like ambient there is not easy to find something to discover, but the music of Yannick Franck can change this widespread prejudice. Influenced by a recent trip to Russia and the orthodox culture, he composed the continuous suite of three movements, showing his personal vision of the ancient rite."

Thanks for your interest and support!

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Animal Magnetism

ANIMAL MAGNETISM

Tonight: 10TH JANUARY 2013

WEST GERMANY

Skalitzerstr. 133 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Doors 21:00 Concerts 21:30-00:30 Sharp!

facebook event

with

Jeff Surak (US), Mario de Vega (DE/MX), Yannick Franck (BE), Frgmnt (DE), Martin Howse & Martin Kuentz (UK/DE), Marta Zapparoli (DE / IT), Scott Sinclair (AUS), Topmodel (DE)

Musician, performer and founder of Idiosyncratics label, Yannick Franck has developed an increasingly personal style that combines sharp acoustic research and abrasive walls of sound. Often described as trance-inducing, his music is based on the treatment of sources such as instruments and non-musical objects, voice, radio signals and field recordings. It ranges from fundamental acoustic explorations (The Staircase Continuum) to more stylistic-expressionistic searches (Memorabilia); two fields of investigation that tend to collide in his latest works such as Hierophany (to be released on Monochrome Vision) and The Utmost Night (to be released on Taâlem recordings). In addition to his recordings and performances, Yannick Franck creates site-specific sound installations.

Franck is part of electroacoustic-noise improvisation project Y.E.R.M.O., with guitar player Xavier Dubois and drummer Jason Van Gulick. They have collaborated with artists Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert on a number of projects. They created soundtracks for the artists' political installation Collision Zone, held at the Pavilion of Luxembourg, Venice Biennial 2009. Additional collaborations include their intense audiovisual performances, Things to Come, Collision Zone, and Toward The Event Horizon."

In the past, Yannick Franck has collaborated with Pietro Riparbelli / K11, Craig Hilton (Gauchiste, Loincloth), Phil Maggi, Alan Trench (World Serpent, Temple Music, Orchis) and Esther Venrooy among others and his music has been released on several labels including Silken Tofu, Young Girls Records, Sylvain Chauveau's concept record house Onement and Italian label Silentes.

Franck and Riparbelli, with the precious help of Alan Trench (ex World Serpent, Temple Music) are currently working on a new conceptual album based on recordings made at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Sicily.

He has performed in venues and festivals such as Issue Project Room (New York, USA), MUDAM (Luxembourg, LU), Philharmonie du Luxembourg (Luxembourg, LU), Young Arts Biennial (Moscow, RU), European Performance Art Festival (Warsaw, PL), Instants Chavirés (Paris, FR), Ausland (Berlin, DE), Electronic Church (Berlin, DE), Bozar Electronic Arts Festival (Brussels, BE), interactive Media Art Laboratory (Brussels, BE) among many others.

He works as an independent composer for the National Theater of the French Community in Brussels (TNB) and companies such as Artara / Fabrice Murgia (for which he composed the soundtracks of critically acclaimed performances LIFE:RESET / Chronique d'une ville épuisée and Exils) and dance-theater company Trotz Ensemble.

He has composed several commissioned soundtracks for videos, installations and performances for artists such as Harri De Ville, Wendy Morris, Geert Ooms, Jan Peeters, Mary Sherman and Karl Van Welden and Marion Tampon-Lajarriette.

Yannick Franck sporadically publishes interviews with artists and musicians in Belgian contemporary art newspaper Flux News.