Frédéric D. OBERLAND (FR)
(c) Grégoire Orio, 2018
The work of Frédéric D. Oberland finds itself at the crossroads of image and sound, favouring a kinaesthetic approach. He articulates different modes of narration, combining the raw character of the documentary form with the transfigured reality of myth and poetry, allowing him to question notions such as the sacred, the monstrous, the fraternity, while at the same time returning to the political news of the present.
Attentive to the pulse and beat of the body, his music is willingly itinerant, modulating between the ripples of dreams, watching the points of incandescence and the bursts of electricity that act as revelations of our presence in the world, here and now, its mystery and its violence. It owes in equal measure to the repetitive music, the minimalism of the post-war period (Terry Riley, Charlemagne Palestine, Arvo Pärt), to the formal liberty of free jazz, to the electro-acousmatic researches and to the immediacy of the energetic punk or no wave (Sonic Youth).
He is the co-founder of leading bands on the French scene, such as OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE, FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques, The Rustle of the Stars and FareWell Poetry.
Collaborating with film and video makers (Augustin Gimel, Ala Eddine Slim, As Human Pattern, Ho Tzu Nyen, Karel Doing, François-Xavier Drouet), writers and poets (Christophe Manon, Hugues Jallon, G.W.Sok, Jayne Amara Ross), photographers and visual artists (Stéphane Charpentier & Temps Zéro, David Fathi, Fanny Béguély, Patricia Reinhart), Frédéric D. Oberland is also curating with Mondkopf the experimental and electronic label NAHAL Recordings.
His last-in-date somophore solo album, Labyrinth (NAHAL Recordings, 2018), is a a condensed version of an octo-phonic sound and visual installation created in the basement of the contemporary art space Labanque in Béthune and inspired by George Bataille's Inner Experience and the cave of Dante's Inferno. In an introverted territory, the piece invites the listener to bare witness to the loss of landmarks and to feel then immersive sense of trance ; Labyrinth is weaving a cocoon whose ascending and cyclical pulsations intoxicate, as if under hypnosis.
For the art space Les Brasseurs - art contemporain, Frédéric D. Oberland will present an exclusive new live act inspired by Stephen Hawking last speeches, with video beams by Grégoire Orio (As Human Pattern) and live sound by Romain Poirier (Mer Noir).
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