LONDON OVERLAP.ORG SHOWCASE: SEBASTIEN ROUX + DOUGLAS BENFORD + BEDDOES

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SEBASTIEN ROUX

Coming from the experimental electronic music scene, Sébastien Roux has played in Europe, Australia and United States. He has been invited by several festivals like Musique Action (Nancy) Nuit d’hiver (Marseille), Netmage (Bologna), Whynote (Dijon), Présence Electronique (Paris), J’en Rêve (Fondation Cartier Paris), Musica (Strasbourg), Net Days (Bruxelles), Santarcangelo (Italy)

In 2006, he had a residency in the studios of La Muse en Circuit to work on his piece Oblique, for cello and electronics (premiere: “Extension du domaine de la note” festival/Paris) He also spent a 15 days residency at the school of fine arts of Nice (Villa Arson) with Eddie Ladoire to work on a radio piece project.
He worked with French sound artist Vincent Epplay, on Klavier integral, a piece commissioned by GRM.
He also got commissioned a soundtrack for French archives of the 20th century architecture by the Museum of contemporary art of Vitry.

In 2005, he worked on an improvised music project with drummer Leonzio Cherubini and viola player Garth Knox.
Since 2003, he has been working as musical assistant at IRCAM, where he mainly collaborates with composer Georges Aperghis (Avis de Tempête, Happy End, Dans le mur).
He has been awarded for the sixth international radio art contest, organized by la Muse en Circuit.

His work is released by the labels apestaartje, 12k, Carpark and Room 40, and by n-rec and optical sound for the heller project.
http://www.myspace.com/sebastienrouxmusic

" Sébastien Roux is one of the most interesting musician of the French electronic scene : his contemporary music culture, and his pop music culture allow him to compose a very evocative music, mixing electronics and organic with smartness and feelings – like Fennesz or Mitchell Akiyama.. Sébastien Roux is an inquiring musician, ready for every kind of collaborations : opera with Aperghis, minimal electronics with Heller, Pop and Musique Concrète with Greg Davis" (Paquet surprise, released on Carpark).

DAVID SANSON

www.mouvement.net

DOUGLAS BENFORD

Douglas Benford has been making his digital music, mainly under the moniker of SI-CUT.DB, for almost two decades, releasing many albums in differing guises. He has collaborated with Stephan Mathieu, Rechenzentrum, and Ben Edwards [as 'Tennis'] amongst others, with music available on labels such as Fällt, Bip Hop, Highpoint Lowlife, BackGround, Warp, Mutek and 12K. His latest album 'In The Footsteps Of The Princess' will be released on the 12x50 label. Benford has performed at festivals internationally (Mutek, Transmediale, Synch etc) and also arts venues such as Tate Modern and the ICA in London. He is also co-curator of Sprawl experimental music events with Iris Garrelfs, since 1996.
http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk
http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb


BEDDOES

Beddoes is Blase Roccisano. Orginally from Melbourne, Australianow residing in London. Beddoes performances are rare and very beautiful. Incorporating live acoustic guitars and the processing of sounds & field recordings via computer. In the past Blase has collaborated with sound artists Joel Stern, Tom Morris, has played in the trio Hood/Roccisano/Rodgers (Paul Hood and Michael Rodgers) and worked with video artist Antuong Nguyen.
www.beddoesmusic.com