A-POETIK

Biographie

A-Poetik is an electronic music band based on a collective association of artists and producers.

The idea is to work with new technologies and reproduction skills for text, sound and visuals.

The first performance, in December 96, used turntables, samplers, guitars, voice, mixing board, soundeffects and media installations.

In 2002, after different collaborations for films scoring, advertising and sound system installations, A-Poetik started to work on a more instrumental way. The duo propose an electro-acoustic sound system for a music in a constant evolution.

Electronic music

In 1997, during the first swiss tour, the band met Al Comet in Zurich, keyboard player for the Young Gods. This swiss musician and veteran in sampling and electronic music will be soon interested in A-poetik's music. This friendship and artistic collaboration will be materialized, after 3 years of musical progression and tour experiences, by the first album, arranged by Al Comet and produced by A-poetik with a Universal Music distribution.

Slam and spoken words

In 1998, after the meeting with Withman MacGowan, poet from the San Fransisco scene, A-Poetik worked with spoken words and slam. They have done several performances together in Switzerland and Europe. The Transmusicales de Rennes in decembre 2000 (France), at The Theatre de l'Usine in Geneva (les Nuits Hors Bords), with Lydia Lunch, Billy Childish and Withman MacGowan, in Novembre 2000, the night eMusik und Literature with Mark Amerika (american writer) at the Kulturzentrum Boa in Lucerne, Switzerland in april 2001 to name just a few.

Art, performance and multimedia

In May 1998, A-Poetik participated to an international festival of art and electronic music, the Gekko festival in Stockolm (European capital of culture 1998), with bands like 4 Hero, Hexstatic, Bandulu, DJ Morpheus, eccÖ

In June of the same year, the swiss-italian videast Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza invited them to participate to a festival of performances at the swiss institute in Rome. This festival presented twelve swiss performers and artists: Regula Kopp, Victorine Muller, Franticek Klossner, Muda Mathis (ex. Reines Prochaines), Sibylle Hauert, Sus Zwick, Donato Amstutz, Heinrich Lüber). A-POETIK made a performance on the roof top of the swiss institute (the higher roof in Rome, after the Vatican). In April 2001, The space of the cultural center ABC in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Swiss) is fully open to them for a sound system installation which took place on 3 floors of the house during 3 days. With performance among Al Comet and Sound 8.

Studio production

One of A-Poetik's composition was choosed for a tv advertising created by young realisator and sponsorised by "Le Lait".

They also put their talents together for institutional films in 2001, 02, 03 and 04. A-Poetik was also contacted for an installation at the Expo.02, the swiss national exhibition.