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ZAP-PASCAL :

Accordion with electronic devices, experimental Keyboards, Voice, sounds & found Objects

ZAPPascal started playin! accordion at the a!e of " with a classical and popular music

trainin!#

$n his teena!e years, he has been impressed by the effervescence of the postpun% era roc%

in opposition, newwave, nowave, new music, industrial movement and avant roc% jewels# $n those

days he played mainly in dance halls or dance parties and at the same time he be!an to run into the

roc% scene#

'eetin! afterwards with blues, blac% music and ethnic music led him up pro!ressively to

free ja((, free improvisation and all %ind of experimental stuff#

$n the nineties he re!ularly improvised on accordion, electronic %eyboards, voice and

percussion with a collective of local musicians and be!an practisin! contemporary music and

experimental music theater#

On occasions he had the chance to play with !reat international musicians, notably )*!is

+uby, )amon ope(, Phil 'inton, 'a!!ie -ichols, .eijiro 'urayama, /ean0ran1ois Pauvros,

+*l2ne 3reschand, 0aust, 45nfance )ou!e etc#

+is meetin! with sound poetry opened new hori(ons for him in creatin! and performin!

dada texts#

6herefore day after day his music developped in a more intuitive and personal form, both

intimate and inspired by nature and social environment#

ZAPPascal actually wor%s on spontaneous compositions that explore sounds and spaces and

wander thou!ht new sonorous countries#

+e mixes his mutant chromatic accordion with electronic !ear, a sampler, analo!ue

%eyboards, voice, percussion and several ethnic instruments#

+is spontaneous compositions are in a way the chance meetin! of dada poetry and

chamanic travel# +e plays solo re!ularly on different occasions, for instance recently an openin! act

for a 'atmos concert#

+e continues to play conductions pieces in creatin! collective ensemble li%e the Oblivious

5nsemble, a nonet of improvisors he reunited to improvise his piece 7 45sprit 0rappeur 7 in

february 899:#

$n may 899" with /ean0ran1ois Pauvros, +*l2ne 3reschand and ; other musicians he

brou!ht to life 7 .huffle 7, an incredible chance piece by uartet $n 6he 6radition or miss Andrea

Par%ins and improvised in nature with the ? 'urmur of .tones @ =

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-owadays this duet composes a mixed media improvised art form with an artist that creates

live paintin!s in a project untitled 7 sonorous writin!s 7 that is shown in several art !alleries#

ocusta 'i!ratoria is another duet with a noise !uitar player that wor%s on electronic,

industrial, ambiant and experimental atmospheres# 6heir first P is due to be released in october on

Kd3 )ecords# 6hey plan to tour in 5urope next year#

+e continues to meet re!ularly with several artists, li%e the