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Loïc Grobéty & Daniel Maszkowicz
Organismic synthesizer duo, hypnotic drone ambiant, granular massive noise 

It just takes a few steps to switch from grindcore to noise. Daniel - wicz and Loïc - olo, come from the underground, dusty roads and wet cellars. Both of them are originally bass players that went on their own ways in exploring electroacoustic and atonal music.

Their first encounter took place in the Vietnamese jungle at Dao Xuan Chin Festival in Hòa Bình. In the steaming tropical heat, surrounded by the sounds of multiple insects and reptiles, but also a 120dB roaring sound system, they decided to work together on the Lyra-8 by Soma. This iconic Russian synthesizer offers an organic and living approach to composition and improvisation.

Their approach to music is definitely powerful, contrasting, cinematographic and radical. A torrential storm turns into an industrial sonic blast confusing tropical and urban jungle, for a complex piece with crushed sounds in a deep drone.

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Du grindcore à la noise, il n’y a qu’un pas. Daniel – wicz et Loïc – olo viennent de l’underground, des routes poussiéreuses, des caves humides. Tous deux, originellement bassistes, ont suivi des parcours parallèles dans les méandres de la musique atonale et électroacoustique.

Leur rencontre a eu lieu dans la jungle vietnamienne au festival Dao Xuan à Hòa Bình. Dans la chaleur tropicale, au détour des sons sauvages des insectes et des reptiles multiples, mais aussi d’une sonorisation vrombissante à 120db, ils ont décidé d’approfondir leurs travaux sur l’iconique Lyra-8 de Soma. Ce synthétiseur russe permet une approche organique et vivante de la composition et des improvisations. 

Le duo propose une musique de leur temps, puissante, contrastée, cinématographique et radicale. Une pluie diluvienne se transforme en attaque sonique industrielle, confondant jungle tropicale et urbaine, dans une pièce complexe aux sonorités concassées.

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composer | performer | producer
psychoacoustics | brainwaves | ASMR noise

Currently living in Geneva – Switzerland – Daniel Maszkowicz (born Daniel Siemaszko) is at the same time a research scientist, a curator for independent cinema, and a multidisciplinary performer involved in several projects such as LE GRAND CHOEUR NOISE, SM NOISE, and CONFÉRENCE NOISE. Having worked at CERN – European Center for Nuclear Research – he collected numerous field recordings from the fantastic machines he come accros by wandering in the laboratories and abandoned tunnels.

His collaboration with artist Emma Souharce resulted in a massive installation of primitive analogue electronics called BIBLIOTEQ MDULAR, immersive hypnotic music created by an orchestra of obsolete laboratory function generators, often combined with analogue video modular synthesiser Synkie from collective [ a n y m a ] for an audiovisual analogue symbiosis. They released their first LP in may 2018 with label Copypasta Editions and Aussenraum Records.

His solo project makes use of SuperCollider with which he brings together an infinity of digital function generators. With his music, he creates a massive polyphonic and multichannel soundscape where frequencies merge into an intense magma of resonating waves, aiming for immersive hypnotic atmosphere with low frequency beats synchronised with natural brainwaves and molecular resonance patterns. He also audiovisual live creations and action noise performances in collaboration with several visual and sound artists.

Daniel Maszkowicz presented his work internationally and contributed to numerous soundtracks and publications.

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