hopen

Biography

HOPEN
ADVANCED AUDIO NARRATIVES

“I always think about my work as some variations on the same subject, a way to observe, concider and show the human being as an hypothese, a perhaps... Working at the edge of being, on the societal inconscious, and in the moment when it's still possible to invent the world as a mysterious limit...”

Hopen is an electro-acoustic project turned towards experimentation using sampling, concrete sources, voices, loops and noises... through different foggy and sensitive variations.
To produce an experimental living music.

Childe Grangier is a contemporary music producer and artist based in Geneva, Switzerland. He's first influenced by the sounds, daily noises and music experimentation from Zappa, Autechre, to Luc Ferrari or Fugazi but also not especially musicians. A significant part of his inspiration comes from the visual world or the story telling, poetry and living theater from the 70’s to now.
Using architectures of hazard and chance, the idea is to produce sound and to share a different experience of listening…

A giving and demanding music, for your ears and between…
Hopen already has releases on Arbouse Recordings, Adozen.org, Plak-Records, Mental Groove Ltd, Mischwald, AFE, Kompakt,
LEEP records, Corso Fleuri…

Websites and contact:
upobox@yahoo.fr
http://www.irrigationworks.net/
http://www.myspace.com/hopenchilde

Releases:::

2006: Hopen LP Live Ltd / "Edges" on Leep Records
Les Enregistrements de l’Europe Parisien

2006: Hopen NetLP / "Spoken with fire in the green night"
on Adozen.org

2006: Chaton+Hopen - Dreaming surfaces parts EP /
Num-records

2005: Chaton+Hopen- Plak Reconstruction by Donatto Dozzy and Agnès -plak08 / Plak Records

2005: Hopen LP Live Ltd / "In the time I went to America"
on correspondance-electronic

2005: Hopen LP / "We are singing for hurrays"
on Arbouserecordings

2005: Nowhere-Place des vosges(chaton+hopen rmx)
+ Galaxy from Underground Resistance -Mental Groove

2005: Chaton+Hopen-Monk is rolling-plak04 / Plak Records

2004: Chaton+Hopen/Miss Dinky- MGLTD - Mental Groove

2004: Chaton+Hopen-an area
+ remix by hrdvsion (Itiswhatitis recordings)-plak03 /
Plak Records

2004: "Tales of unrest" - Imploz compilation feat. Quenum, Crowdpleaser, Lee van dowski

2003: Hopen / Fed by the mountains which will always be addicted to boredom - LP. Plak Records

2002: 1 track Sampler hangUp 3 / Twine, Carpets music, Domotic, L’altra, Explosions in the sky, E*rock...

2002: Hopen / Project 74 sur Tsunami Addiction / Machined to be played -1 Track-12 min. "74".06

2001: Hopen CdrLP/ Nailing shadows
(arboufirststep001/Arbouse recordings)

Live performances:::

September 2006: Sound performance at the NetaudioLondon festival / Candid Arts Center London

April 2006: Live at R3s3t market in Bern /Switzerland

February 2006: Live at Dach Kantine in Zurich /Switzerland

November 2005: Live at Fri-Son in Fribourg
during a Adozen netlabel night /Switzerland

August 2005: HOPEN live set "Sun Tunnels "
performed at the Museum Puech in Rodez

June 2005: HOPEN + CHATON live set performed
at the Registratur in Munich

May 2005: HOPEN + CHATON live set performed
at the PanoramaBar in Berlin

March 2005: Live at Dach Kantine in Zurich
during the Live Festival /Switzerland

February 2005: Live at Fri-Son in Fribourg
during a Koroke night /Switzerland

November 2004: Hopen Live set “Constellation#1”
at the Patchinko /Geneva

November 2004: Hopen Live set “Constellation#1”
on BASIC.CH /Geneva

October 2004: Live at Fri-Son in Fribourg /Switzerland

2003: Lives on BASIC.CH /Geneva

November 2003: Live at Weetamix Geneva/Plak-Records night

April 2002: Batofar with DJ KoKAT,Audio-Room,
dDamage et Lena /Paris

Upcoming projects:::

2006: Collaborations with Lena on his New album for Quatermass
2006: One release track on Everest Records Expedition.02 V/A...
2006: One release track on Corso Fleuri 45/V/A with Matthew Jonson, Hrdvsion...

Press / magazines:::

THE WIRE /
OCTOPUS/ France - le journal des musiques libres
MAGIG! revue pop moderne /
DE:BUG magazine /Berlin
BROKEN FACE magazine by Mats Gustafsson
(Jim O’Rourke, Sonic Youth...)