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• Etymology of smith The word smith is cognate with the somewhat archaic English word, "smite", meaning "to hit" or "to strike". Originally, smiths practiced their crafts by forming metal with hammer blows. As an English suffix, -smith connotes a meaning of specialized craftsmen. → smithereens : fragments, splintered pieces, numerous tiny disconnected items, atoms, smithers, small pieces... [to knock, smash sth. (in)to smithereens]. ___________________________
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⊗ New(s) & release(s) : Zn'shñ : TOKYO OPERATIONS (September 2010) Double electronics by Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff w/ - 05 Sept. @ Kissa Sakaiki (Mitsuaki Matsumoto + Zn'shñ) computer + double electronics - 06 Sept. @ Bar Isshee (Kaido Yutaka + Masao Tajima + Zn'shñ) 2 double bass + double electronics - 07 Sept. @ Koenji High (Sawada + Zn'shñ) drums + double electronics - 08 Sept. @ Shibuya Lush (Kouhei Harada + Zn'shñ) computer + double electronics - 09 Sept. @ Flying Teapot (Zn'shñ) double electronics - 10 Sept. @ Next Sunday (Sawada + Zn'shñ) drums + double electronics - 13 Sept. @ UFO Club (Mitsuaki Matsumoto + Zn'shñ) computer + double electronics - 14 Sept. @ SuperDeluxe "Test Tone" (Zn'shñ) double electronics + guest - 16 Sept. @ Nana-hari (Takuji Kawai + Haruyuki Suzuki + Zn'shñ) piano + electronics + double electronics - 17 Sept. @ Candy (Naoto Yamagishi + Hugues Vincent + Franck Smith) drums + cello + electronics - Hugues Vincent : Onkyo no hako — [odl.sqed-700] new cd! - Zn'shñ : Butoh sweets — [odl.9173-659] new cd! - Studies on fixed point theorems by Franck Smith is available on Moscow-based netlabel Clinical Archives (ref. ca375) [download] - Franck Smith solo performance at STEIM, Amsterdam. "Patterns & Pleasure" [video] - Franck Smith : Théorème de point fixe — [odl.9173-658] new cd! - Radio : "Le mur du son" in Tapage nocturne, special Berlin vol.2 (the Berlin Wall, 20 years later), 21 compositions, feat. "Trümmer" (1:01) by Franck Smith / October 22nd, France Musique 91.7 FM (Paris). [more] - Radio : Franck Smith in Epsilonia, Radio Libertaire 89.4 FM (Paris), October 22nd, 22h-00. [more] - Zn'shñ : II — (2nd cd). September 2009. [odl.9173-657] - Film excerpt : The winter book [view] - Review : ++ by Zn'shñ [read] - Review : The winter book (Original soundtrack by Zn'shñ) [read] - Article : Zn'shñ for glitch and Butoh fans... [article] - Radio : Franck Smith in Tapage nocturne, France Musique 91.7 FM (Paris). [more] - Zn'shñ : ++ — (1st official cd release). April 2009. [odl.9173-656] - Clinical Archives presents : The winter book (28:57) by Zn'shñ ; Original soundtrack — Ref. [ca.231] Free-download [ca231] - Tecnonucleo's TAO Project : featuring Winter recordings (07:57) by Zn'shñ — Ref. [TN012 V.A.] Free-download [TN012 V.A.] - Tales Of Noboru by Hugues Vincent ; inspired by Yukio Mishima's book The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. (odl.SqEd-690). [new!] ⊗ Next discographic works : - Publishing w/ audio-realization of Tlü Ejtko's French radiophonic piece Testament d'un bouquet de violettes written for 2 simultaneous voices. A "phonotic" composition conceived according to principles of "déclinaisons épigraphiques" (sic) as a double continuo and basically influenced by the pattern of Tibetan rituals. (Pending). - Elvire Bastendorff's first audio statement, La mer écrite, based on the eponymous book of Marguerite Duras. (Pending). [video] ⊗ Recent video(s) [2010] : - Lo-Fi / 8-bit processor Biscuit w/ Sleepdrone & Filterbank [video] - A pair of Sherman Filterbank 2 "addiction guaranteed!" [video] ___________________________
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• 1973-1999 Born in France, noise manufacturer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Franck Smith works on various instrumental and musical situations. In 1993 he composes Rituels for string quartet and develops an utopic book for drumset studies titled Les quatre éléments. He creates Zoïkhem in 1995/96 and writes the discographic diptych Requiem/Vox clamantis in deserto (1997) before recording the two solo albums — IX. que ce bébé se taise crierons-nous dans nos tombes (1998) and Ici ∉ Ø si 340 m/s < rien (1999). Holder of a diploma in musicology Franck Smith plays anvils, gongs, sirens, drums, piano and writes various fictitious dialects... • 2001-2005 He sets up Odiolorgnette in 2001 and starts learning the use of electronic devices. Playing a self-configured digital percussion module, turntable and pre-recorded supports manipulation, he becomes in 2002 a specialist of real-time electronics, recording a peculiar collection of new works on Pygmy music, Japanese Noh theatre, Butoh dance, cartoon music and video-game soundtrack. On stage Franck Smith currently performs a series of solo works and conducts the «sonic formula» Qoo-ij orium since 2005. Resident composer in Bologna, Italy, for the piece Une porcelaine dans un magasin d'éléphants, for 9 instrumentists, electronics & pre-recorded supports [as Ijnveïq de Ernestine, winner of the 2002 edition of "Pépinières Européennes/International Angelica Festival, at Palazzo Re Enzo] and for the commissioned composition Requiem II, for 10 female voices, small ensemble & electronic, in tribute to the Basilica of San Petronio ["Suoni & luoghi", 1st edition, 2004]. • 2006-2007 Continuing personal electronic researches and studies he enhances his sound arsenal with vinyls, theremin and vintage analog effects to make a unique and evolutive setup. On Odiolorgnette he recently releases two new works, Les urnes funéraires (2006) and Nekrob umics (2007), while elaborating a personal répertoire of micro-rituals (or mono-rites) for hybrid electronics performed as Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg. His last discographic works to date are Qoo-ij orium's first recording titled Trompe-l'œil & bagatelles (2006-2007) and the 2 albums of his Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg project — A silica(te) replica (November 2007) and Monolith (December 2007). He launches out into The Darwich Fetish Edition, a collection of sound-objects and custom-made phonocrafts conceived for special pressings on vinyl disc. Commissioned composer for the soundtrack of Elvire Bastendorff's 'Vision d'elles' audiovisual exhibition, for 20 manipulated vinyls & electronic, [Luxembourg, 2007]. • 2008-2009 After the recording of Qoo-ij orium's second (and last) opus Radiophonic works and the publication of the electro-acoustic tribute Le tombeau d'Edgard Varèse (April 2008) — in addition to his electronic percussive devices expertise — Franck Smith throw himself into experimental mixing and alternative digital. He creates the dual electronic unit Zn'shñ in June 2008 with artist/sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff to realize a series of specific electronic and audiovisual works. In November, Franck Smith publishes Théorème de point fixe — a solo recording for pure electronic dedicated to Japanese sound artist and experimental composer Ryoji Ikeda. In December 2009 he performs solo at STEIM, Amsterdam for the event "Pattern & pleasure" that celebrates STEIM@40! • 2010- New discographic work by Zn'shñ: Butoh sweets "Adventures in dance, flour & colours" (July) + series of concerts in Tokyo (2-20 September). Creation of Rosebruit w/ Elvire Bastendorff (...) ___________________________ As Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg he records A silica(te) replica (November 2007) and Monolith (December 2007). As Phrenq he records Cartoon cuts (2003) and The Game-Over! suites (2005). As Ijnveïq de Ernestine, he works with voices, languages, invented dialects and modern technologies on acoustics. This discographic part of his production could be classified between hybrid composition and experimental performance with a specific view on primitive and fictitious sacral music. In 2002 he creates Monophoïd, writes Une porcelaine dans un magasin d'éléphants and releases Narratorium/Ellipsis of an idiot and Pygmology. As Tlü Ejtko (writer, instuments player and vocal performer) he records Xing I (Ijnveïq de Ernestine's score for prepared recorders), writes the French radiophonic piece Testament d'un bouquet de violettes (for 2 simultaneous voices) and participates in Zoïkhem's new recordings (Ethnolingualistic debris, RIP, When dirted snow...). As himself he records: Théorème de point fixe (2009), Les pierres de touche (2008), La pierre de gué (2008), Le tombeau d'Edgard Varèse (2008), Les jeux de la poupée (2006), 0+0 [1 minus 1] (2006), J'écoute les marteaux-piqueurs ! (2006), Les urnes funéraires (2006), Nekrob umics (2005), Ici ∉ Ø si 340 m/s < rien (1999), IX. que ce bébé se taise crierons-nous dans nos tombes (1998). Between 2009-1995, Franck Smith creates, conducts (and records w/) Zn'shñ, Qoo-ij orium, Celluloïd, Monophoïd, Zoïkhem. ___________________________ Franck Smith, Théorème de point fixe. Composed & performed by Franck Smith (electronic manoeuvrings) Recorded in 2009, time 40:25, Ref: odl.9173-658 ___________________________ (...) whichever way I turn I see nothing but the odds and ends of odd places. Genuflecting behind absurd trees the idiot spits out spasms of silence and solitary games for eared-eyes ; mapping zones of nothingness to hear scribblings in the air ; espying the noise-print of time through a velvet grid. A quiet walk in unwonted constructions full of dust and fossils. (...) © 2001 Franck Smith. ___________________________
• INFLUENCES (...) experimental and primitive sound-activities (...) hybrid acousmatic contexts (...) neo-archaisms, Japanese Gagaku, Tibetan rituals, Pygmy music (...) (...) everything linked to noise manufacturing, electronic manoeuvrings — including — digital percussive devices and vinyl manipulation (...) ___________________________
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