Anna-Kaisa Meklin (viola da gamba)
Antoine Läng (voice)
Brice Catherin (cello)
Bruno Crochet (electronic)
Christian Müller (clarinet)
Christian Neff (violin)
Christoph Schiller (spinet)
Christophe Berthet (saxophone)
Clara de Asís (guitar)
Cyril Bondi (drums, conduction)
d’incise (organ, electronic)
Eric Ruffing (analog synth)
Fred Minner (bass)
Ivan Verda (guitar)
Jamasp Jhabvala (violin)
Léa Moulet (violin)
Loïc Grobety (double bass)
Luc Müller (drums, percussions)
Mara Winter (flutes)
Maxime Hänsenberger (drums, percussions)
Raphaël Ortis (electronic)
Raphaël Raccuia (guitar)
Rodolphe Loubatière (drums, harmonium)
Sandra Weiss (bassoon)
Steve Buchanan (saxophone)
Tassos Tataroglou (trumpet)
Teresa Hackel (recorders)
Thomas Peter (electronic)
Violeta Motta (traverso)
Vinz Vonlanthen (guitar)
Yukari (flute)

Pieces and direction by
Cyril Bondi & d'incise

Recorded at Insub.studio in three groups/times, september 2020, mixed by d'incise.

Bandcamp

Tutti-Soli

Jean-Luc Guionnet & d'incise - at Cave12 
[insub43]  2014 http://insub.org/ [Free flac & mp3 DL]

Jean-Luc Guionnet, saxophone
d'incise, laptop

Recorded on september 24th, 2014, at Cave12, Geneva.
Thanks to Sixto, Marion & Benouz.

Jean-Luc Guionnet: "My musical work subdivides itself into as many ways as occasions arise for me to think and act with sound. Those occasions have always to do with a strong meeting with an outside element: an instrument (saxophone/organ), a theoretical idea (what is "rumour"?), and mainly a collaborating friend (André Almuro, Éric Cordier, Éric La Casa, Lotus Edde Khouri … Seijiro Murayama) ... There then follows a collection of themes which, in turn, influence the evolution of the musical work and define the direction of meetings to come: the thickness of the air, the pidgin (language with neither grammar nor vocabulary), the musical instrument considered as affective automaton, listening dark unto itself, the algebra of and in hearing, sound as a signature of space, signature of objects, signature of what it is not... the fact that French uses the same word – le temps – for time and weather, propagation and spread of forms in time etc. Music is, then, a way to test reality.
Conversely, it’s a test whose experience defines a new distribution of the whole body by artificially localizing it in an unknown and purely physical environment, all the while being able to think, count, make relations or understand places, and so forth. The emotion I look for in music is made out of all these strata and the sliding of one over the other during the act of listening"
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d'incise,  electroacoustic musician, doing both composed and improvised works. He focuses mainly on generation and manipulation of acoustic sound sources and objects, loves feedbacks and digital glitches as well. He tends to extract the most tiny details of the elements, appreciates slowness and obsessive explorations of simple processes. He coordinates the Insub. label and the Insub Meta Orchestra with Cyril Bondi, with whom he also have the Diatribes duo.
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http://www.jeanlucguionnet.eu/
http://www.dincise.net/
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Jean-Luc Guionnet & d'incise - at Cave12 (exerpt) [insub43]

johnny chang - violin
mike majkowski - double bass
d'incise - recordings 

Illogical Harmonies with d'incise - excerpt) [insub,rec06]

d'incise "Appalachian Antatolia (14th century)" 
Clara de Asis 
[insub45] 2016
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A piece for modified guitar by d'incise,
played by Clara de Asis (electric guitare).
Recorded at Ausland, Berlin, may 8th, 2016.

Full recording free download at  www.insub.org


Appalachian Antatolia (14th century)(d'incise, 2016)

d'incise - Appalachian Antatolia (14th century) by Clara de Asis (excerpt)

Magnus Granberg "Nattens skogar (version for four players)"
Cyril Bondi - d'incise - Magnus Granberg - Anna Lindal

Cyril Bondi: percussions, harmonica
d'incise: electronic, loudspeaker, tuned objects, harmonicas
Magnus Granberg: prepared piano, composition
Anna Lindal: violin

Lp & Digital

2017

Magnus Granberg "Nattens skogar (version for four players)" excerpt, LP.

Cristián Alvear: guitar
Cyril Bondi: percussions
d'incise: electronics

https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/ocho-pretextos

This chilean-swiss trio is adept of a delicate minimalism, drawing colors, tones, and sometimes even a few seconds of melodies, from folk sources.
An experimental inspiration and reinterpretation stretched to the extreme, a ghostly, strange, peaceful and acoustic evocation.
Collaborating since 2014, the group composed this new serie of short pieces during two residencies in Osorno and Geneva during the spring 2019.
Crisitan Alvear is an eminent figure of the chilean scene, having play many composers such as Micheal Pisaro, Catherine Lamb, Jurg Frey, etc, gaining a strong international respect.
Cyril Bondi and d'incise, minds behind the Insub.label and orchestra, are tireless and radical explorers of the experimental field, building a web of collaborations since 15 years.

Composed by the trio during two residencies (january 2019 at Centro Cultural Sofia Hott, Osorno, Chile & may 2019, Insub.studio, Geneva, Switzlerand) with the support of COINCIDENCIA - Cultural Exchanges [Pro Helvetia].

Recorded and mixed at Insub.studio by d'incise.
credits
released March 19, 2020

Ocho pretextos

Alvear-Bondi-d'incise - cuarto pretexto

L'Anglard de St-Donat, assembled from recordings of bowed metalic objets, electric organ, harmonium, banjo & double bass, tuning based on a mazurka by Alfred Mouret.

https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/assembl-e-rel-che-r-jouissance-parade

"« Assemblée, relâche, réjouissance, parade », or another long, unspeakable, french, title (that would somehow translate as » Assembly, pause, rejoicing, parade »). Words that conjure ideas of a music used in public and social rituals. The two distinct pieces experiment with the re-injection of music into the experimental area. Do not see anything pretentious about it, it is rather a very personnal path, in the sens, among others, to not forbid certain aspects of music to make appearances, making bridges between conceptuality and simplicity.
The first part, « L’Anglard de St-Donat », is constructed aroud a mazurka tune, a tradional dance from center-France, played by Alfred Mouret, after his father François « L’Anglard ». But the four short « songs » are not to be seen as a reinterpreations (they’re certainly not danceable), rather as a basis for d’incise’s own research. Solid drones and reccurent structres are built with recordings of bowed and strucked metal objects and (sounds of various) instruments make counterpoints and quasi melodic lines.
Then in « Le désir » the strategy is mirrored, electronics (detuned organs) make the rigide, and slightly akward, context for the bowed metal sticks – tuned in relation to the electronic – to be semi-improvised and take a sort of soloist position – unstabilities of both the objects and the gestures sudenly become open to interpreations and expressions. This piece is one of d’incise‘s actual solo
live performance."

Composed, recorded and mixed by d'incise at Insub.studio, Geneva, CH, 2017.

Assemblée, relâche, réjouissance, parade

d'incise - L'Anglard de St-Donat 1

NEF is the trio consisting of Pascal Battus (rotating surfaces), Bertrand Gauguet (alto saxophone) and Rodolphe Loubatière (snare drum).
And those three more than experienced improvisors deliver us a rafinate set of electroacoustic music, of -almost- pure abstractization of the instruments. 
A poetic of the whispers, whirrs and mecanical micro-mouvements.

https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/intervalles

NEF "Acte II"

"Alpha Beta Eros" (2020) __/ A composition by Michael Pisaro-Liu (USA)
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Philippe Lauzier (CAN): bass clarinet
d'incise (CH) : electronic, loudspeakers
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Opening this serie, Michael Pisaro-Liu, emminent member of the Wandelweiser composers collective & residing and teaching in Los Angeles, delivered a score where words and (love) letters transform into notes,  revealing in their dialog a delicat conterpoint, two voices slightly appart at the begining get soflty intertwined in the last third. Philippe Lauzier, clarinetist, improvisors and sound artist, from Montreal, precisely fomulated its reading on its intruments while d'incise, obstinate sound explorer and co-founder of Insub, reincarnated the score, and its electronic interpretation, by plugging it into various non-neutral, tenderly distorting, loudspeakers.
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More : http://insub.org/insub-distances/
Video : https://youtu.be/JrA0oXQGxkI
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/michael-pisaro-liu-alpha-beta-eros-insub-distances-1-8
Interview about the piece : https://youtu.be/CnlyVrooKmA
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

Michael PISARO-LIU "Alpha Beta Eros" __/ Philippe Lauzier & d'incise (insub.distances 1/8)

"Attachment"  (2020)__/ A composition by Sarah Hennies (US)

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Mike Majkowski (AUS/DE) : double bass
Cyril Bondi (CH) : percussions, pitch pipes
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Sarah Hennies, american composer but also percussionist, combines and recombines sounds, sounds of instruments which by their assemblies create and recreate again and again small autonomous worlds.
As she states, she writes what she wants to hear, and she does it wonderfully, diluting the notion of time, as if you could listen to her music indefinitely.
Mike Majkowski and Cyril Bondi, with their usual rigor and attention to detail, are a perfect pair to bring this intention to our ears.
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More : http://insub.org/insub-distances/
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-hennies-attachment-insub-distances-7-8
Video : https://youtu.be/urxE6L8AB0E
Interview about the piece : https://youtu.be/Bz78lKBAOwQ
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

Sarah Hennies "Attachment" __/ Mike Majkowski & Cyril Bondi [insub.distances 7/8]

"Le poids d'ombre"  (2020) __/ A composition by Jürg Frey(CH)
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Pierre-Yves Martel (CAN) : viola da gamba
Anouck Genthon (CH) : violin
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With Jürg Frey, a now emblematic Swiss composer of the Wandelweiser movement, it is just the shadow of the strings that emerge from the silence, but with a lightness that does not deceive the immense depth of his music. And his piece, which concludes the "distances" serie, wonderfully abolishes the separation between the musicians by its obvious presence touching us.

Anouck Genthon and Pierre-Yves Martel are both talented improvisers, the first alongside Jacques Demierre, the other with Carl-Ludwig Hübsch and Philippe Zoubek, for instance. They give here life to the score with accuracy and to those appearances of sustained notes which sometimes become evocation of melodies that are specific to Jürg Frey's music.
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More : insub.org/insub-distances/
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/j-rg-frey-le-poids-dombre-insub-distances-8-8
Video : youtu.be/62G85SJg8uI
Interview about the piece : youtu.be/tbKFDvVKqvA 
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

Jürg FREY "Le poids d'ombre" __/ Pierre-Yves Martel & Anouck Genthon [insub.distances 8/8]

Mara Winter: medieval flutes
Marina Tantanozi: flutes
Tasso Tataroglu: trumpet
Christoph Schiller: spinet
Clara de Asìs: acoustic guitar

Composed by Cyril Bondi & d'incise, 2020.

Recorded in Basel by d'incise, at Schiller's atelier.
Mixed by d'incise

Bondi - D'incise - La Lavintse -01- No1

INSUB. is a label, a netlabel and a concert organisation based in Geneva, CH.
It covers the fields of experimental, electroacoustic, improvised & composed musics.
The Records section, started in 2013, has the from of Pay Per Download only releases, accompanied by a physical print containing textes, scores, etc, thought has an echo, or a reminder, of the digitalised music.
The netlabel offers free download for every releases, but some are however available in classical physical format (cd, cdr, LP).
The concerts happens here and there in Geneva, and the Insub Meta Orchestra is a very large ensemble.
These activities has been develloped since 2006, formely under the « Insubordinations » label.

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