Out of curiosity, when you say 80% in Montreal, where's the other 20% coming from ? 

Excellent percussion. Excellent piano. Excellent excellence.

Giant swathes of Cloud coriolis....swirl heart....swirl

make music forever and ever and ever or I'll be sad

On August 11th 2011, the first 'official' album for the project johnny_ripper was released online, titled 'soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist'. A concept & sound that lasted 6 years, 6 albums, 3 remix compilations & a collaborative EP; before the name was eventually changed to 'Joni Void' in 2017.

Retrospective is a compilation of 19 songs / selection of early material from johnny_ripper, with fresh remasters from Amar Lal, focusing particularly on original compositions / the 'soundtrack piano' material of the first albums, creating what is essentially the most 'personal' album to date in that sense. This is the first time a johnny_ripper release is pressed on a physical format.

"this life took a minute to grab
but when i slipped in the rap
i noticed the deal was done
and basically i had won
so when i ran it all back,
i took a minute to ask
if anything i could do,
would jump me right back to you
young dev your on the right path
just take the door at most laugh
when things get quiet for you
you’ll know just what u can do,
be loud and let it grow up
you honestly got the stuff
remember that is not luck
remember to say so what:
- Pink Navel - So What
from 'Giraffe Track'

all songs written & produced by Jean Néant / Joni Void
formerly known as johnny_ripper
from 2010 to 2016

except for Cat Soup
based on/samples the short-film ‘Nekojiru-sô’
by Tatsuo Sato & Masaaki Yuasa

Artwork by Masaaki Yuasa

Mastering by Amar Lal
at Macro

Download / Tape

Retrospective

These three pieces mark the first offering from NPNP Trio coming out on Personal Records on September 25th.  

NPNP Trio are Jackson Darby (modular synthesizer, electronics) , Evelyn Charlotte Joe (drums) and James Goddard (saxophone mbira)

Produced/mixed by Jackson Darby
Mastered by Aaron Hutchinson 


Words from Destiny Rosenberg 
The NPNP trio brings together three musicians who hold not only dear places in my heart & musical path, but also in the many creative communities they animate and interconnect. While the trio bears the emblem of composer and leader Jackson Darby’s solo work, it is undeniably a meeting of minds and individual voices that generates its deeply moving music of ecstatic, embodied meditation.

Darby’s immersive and ever-evolving practice with modular synthesis, tape and modern electronic instruments forms the bellows of the group’s sound. Through sheets of warm drone, cascades of percussive, patchwork synth or nearly unrecognizable manipulated recordings of instruments, Jackson’s sound is central to the compositions as the base layers on the canvas are to a painting. He crafts an abundant sonic space for the players to meet in – each at the pace of their own breath and reflex.

Evelyn Charlotte Jo’s impeccable sense of pulse and expressive phrasing at the drum kit simultaneously anchors and propels group improvisation through the absorbing dronescapes. One has the acute sense of free falling at a comfortable velocity as leaves & branches lightly, sporadically make contact at entirely natural though completely unpredictable intervals. Jo is an interpreter with stick and brush, delivering up-to-the-second transcriptions of complex cosmic information as they spot it in the matrix.

James Goddard’s plaintive saxophone intoning can glisten atop the shimmering pane of synthesizer harmonics and rumbling percussion as though time has stopped before his bursts of lyrical cataclysm send compositions into new, unforeseen avenues. His mbira playing evokes a music box winding up and down as though it were the clock guts of the half mechanical half living breathing organism that is the NPNP Trio.

The Trio’s sound – meeting somewhere between Don Cherry’s Organic Music Society and Steve Roach’s transcendent long-form desert drones – is nothing less than that of three wholly actualized players absolutely possessed by the coming together of their practices. One can hear their shared radical joy of exploration, what a pleasure it is for them to carve a moment in time together and how little they ever want it to end.

NPNP Trio  - Mirage Of An Elastic

Cette semaine schisme.s tombe dans le côté avant-pop baroque de l’iconoclaste Joni Void (@joni_void) aka Jean Néant fka johnny_ripper. Connu d’abord pour ses collages épineux, il s’est imposé depuis quelques années comme un des polymathes les plus prolifiques de la scène montréalaise, notamment avec ses collaborations avec N NAO, Maya Kuroki, @sarahpageharp (Page Vide) et plusieurs autres sous l’égide de sa plateforme Everyday Ago. Il nous présente aujourd’hui une brochette de la musique qui l’a accompagné lors de sa tournée japonaise en juillet dernier, incluant plusieurs artistes avec qui il a eu la chance de jouer.

Liste de diffusion sur Instagram (schizo_cism)
Design graphique: Geneviève L Richard
Programmation et mastering: @julienracine

On remet ça vendredi minuit sur les ondes de CISM 89,3 FM. En ligne mardi matin 4h.

schisme.s vol. 3 - Joni Void

Aujourd’hui nous avons droit à un joli fracas de la part de @leonlouder, grand spécialiste du maniement des fragments rythmés. Sa carrière recoupe presque parfaitement celle de Schizophrénie, avec un premier EP paru en 2003. Depuis, il n’a jamais cessé de faire paraître des simples, remix et collaborations sous son nom ou sous son pseudonyme Vertigo Inc. Son dernier né, Entomophonie (paru en septembre 2023), une commission de l’Insectarium de Montréal, est composé uniquement de sons d’insectes. Il a également mis la main à la pâte en mettant en place l’étiquette @unfulfillment, faisant paraître les disques de plusieurs artistes partageant son esthétique parfois abrasive, notamment les montréalais Bouche Première et @oacem, ainsi que l’ottavien Classics of Form. Il nous présente ici un mélange de son matériel (incluant plusieurs inédits), celui de ses amis et “other stuff I like”, mais l’ensemble est incontestablement du Leon Louder.

Liste de diffusion sur Instagram (schizo_cism)
Design graphique: Geneviève L Richard
Programmation et mastering: @julienracine

On remet ça vendredi minuit sur les ondes de CISM 89,3 FM. En ligne mardi matin 4h.

schisme.s vol. 10 - Leon Louder

‘Blush Study’, taken from the forthcoming album 'Corner Dancer', out via Modern Love on November 10th, 2023.

Produced by Lucy Railton, co-written with Petter Eldh.
Cello, vocals, electronics by Lucy Railton.
Moog, guitar and Polysix by Petter Eldh.  

Artwork by Rebecca Salvadori.

Corner Dancer

Blush Study

Buy Here

Lucy Railton- Blush Study

remix of ylangylang's "rough mosaics" from their album Only By Moonlight, released on Personal Records

rough mosaics - ylangylang (irl remix)

Haven't posted in a while. Was experimenting with drums breaks also totally unmixed

Train Going Nowhere!

Kyoka (JP) @kyoka
Canadian Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 2 on August 24, 2023
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)
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Kyoka embarks on a journey of sonic creation, weaving intricate compositions predominantly crafted from the mesmerizing Moog Synth sounds

MUTEKLIVE319 - Kyoka

Page Vide (CA/QC)
MUTEK Montréal | Édition 24
Nocturne 5 on August 27, 2023
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)
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Page Vide is the collaborative project of Montréal-based experimental artists Sarah Pagé and Joni Void. Pagé’s versatile harp practice meets the cinematic, sample based narratives of Void in atmospheric and emotive soundscapes.

MUTEKLIVE328 - Page Vide

I Can Feel It

Live performance- Casa De Popol0-Montreal 2024

more fluffy clouds in my head

picture• Desert Visions: Paintings By Eric Lopresti
http://www.buamai.com/image/34838

blue sky

piano by Marie-Noëlle Gondry (i'm sorry Michel, I just had to)

cloudhead

garden

Oh, that is me in the picture. I was about 4/5 years old. I had an imaginary friend, my ride-on toy Thomas The Tank Engine. I was strongly convinced that it was alive. I used to take him everywhere with me, even set up a place for him at the table on a few occasions, try to feed him, give him something to drink. I still have a few clear memories of this. 
Please don't forget who you were as a child.

imaginary friend

house

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editor
outsider
self-taught
shapeshifter

a paradox
in negative space
living non-linear
since 199X

expire-mental / diy-ing
www.everydayago.cloud

"everyday is the song" • 
on https://soundcloud.com/constellation-records
https://cstrecords.com/products/cst173-joni-void-everyday-is-the-song
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