Poster by Anatole Boccara (@3lotana)
On the 1st of october, we invite you to ateliers claus for an extraordinary evening packed with intense and distorted concerts and performances. On the menu: noise, corporality, strong feelings. Clown, guitar, whip, broken glass. No mercy for your ears, nor for your warm beating hearts.
Timetable
20:00 — doors20:30 — échec
21:30 — Lucas Abela
22:15 — Kaputt Mortem
22:45 — evicshen
00:00 — curfew
evicshen
evicshen, photographed by Devin Sarno.
Victoria Shen is a sound artist, inventor and performer based in San Francisco. Her solo project evicshen is one of the most unique and exciting in the contemporary noise scene—and we don't throw around such wording lightly.
Expert in moment crafting, she blends a meticulous preparation with a brutal and inexorable presence to create unforgettable performances. Her trademark is her extensive use of self-engineered handmade devices, including her infamous vinyl-reading nail art and her cut-up disks. But the most striking element of her appearances is less the ingeniousness harnessed in the making of her tools than the sheer spontaneity with which she uses and abuses them amidst an electrifying chaos, dissolving technique in an energetic whirlwind edging on trance. Indeed, beyond her multiple handcrafted gadgets, her most prominent tool is her own body which, through activating all these objects, transgresses all limits to the point of disquieting the audience. Decidedly cyborg rather than goddess, she skillfully navigates a thin line between chaos and control to come through with a performance which won't leave you indifferent.
Recommended listening
Evicshen, Hair Birth (2020, American Dreams).
Artist's links
Personal website: evicshen.com
Bandcamp: evicshen.bandcamp.com
Instagram: @evicshen
Lucas Abela
Lucas Abela, photographed by Becky DiGlio.
A pillar of the Australian experimental music scene, previously known as Justice Yeldham, Lucas Abela offers a unique performance. After starting off their sound experiments by misusing turntables, they worked for some time with a range of amplified and motorised objects before turning to their current weapon of choice: broken glass-panes pressed against their bare lips. Channeled though contact mics to a modular system, the vibrations of their voice and breath in the glass become the source of a whole range of sounds, which they blend into disquieting soundscapes, entirely spawned live without any synthesis. The artist's body is at the center of the performance, captivating the attention of the audience. The endeavour is not without risk and sometimes, blood can be shed. However, this is not a goal of Abela, but rather a probable side-effect of their total absorption into their mesmerizing sound.
Lucas Abela is also known for their work with Death Grips. Moreover, their label dualpLOVER has tens of references on its catalogue, including albums from Merzbow, Deerhoof and Sissy Spacek.
Recommended listening
Lucas Abela, Making Corner / Full Body Promise (No Rent Records, 2022).
Artist's links
Personal website: dualplover.com
Bandcamp: granpa.bandcamp.com
Instagram: @grandpa_abela
échec
The band échec, playing live at Kultura.
Together, Chris Gennen and Vic Outters are échec, a band born from a common desire to depart from electronic music and to involve their bodies in their music. Indeed, their usual practices sees them mostly working behind the screen of a computer: Chris with his glitchy hyperpop-infused project Real Trvth, Vic as an acousmatic composer and computer music teacher. Here, they reduce their tools to the minimum: guitar, drums and voice, of which they manage to extract a maximum of feelings. With influences ranging from black metal to witch house, their songs, both in English and French, will bring a poetic respite from the most radical proposals of the night.
Recommended listening
Elvira del Rocío / échec, Split EP (Isengard, 2025).
échec, épée (self-released, 2024).
Artist's links
Bandcamp : echecband.bandcamp.com
Instagram : @weareechec
Kaputt Mortem
Anatole Boccara performing at the Théâtre de la Vie.
“Infamous band Kaputt Mortem makes their great live comeback after their last appearance at Momiekultor festival in 1687, their cult album “La bile” having sold no less than 12 copies worldwide. Transcendental clown noise.”
Artist's links
Anatole's Instagram: @3lotana
Emma's Instagram: @ecaille_grise.