Concert of the 24 May 2019

Published on Apr 14, 2020 RADIOKLOW

You might remember previous posts featuring performances by Marc-Henri Arfeux, aka RADIOKLOW, and his students here on MATRIXSYNTH. Marc-Henri wrote in to share this last concert. A ninth was scheduled but unfortunately it will likely be canceled due to the current state of things.

"This concert was given Friday 24 May 2019 at Lycée Edouard Herriot of Lyon, France, by the Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created in 2010.

During this eighth season, we worked around the question of memory.

The concert was performed by:

Victor Barbé: synthesisers, harmonica, voice
Candice Blache : Minimoog Voyager
Julie Breuil : Access Virus TI, voice
Athénaïs Franck : Voice,
Antoine Grimaud : Guitar, voice
Paul Saric : Minimoog Little Phatty, voice
Marc-Henri Arfeux : Minimoog Voyager, Access Virus TI
"Mauvais Garçon" : Introduction to the audience"

Concert of Containment, Sunday 12 April 2020, 16h

Published on Apr 13, 2020 RADIOKLOW

"This concert was given in a virtual room for an audience of Friends and Intimates, during the present containment against the covid 19 pandemic.

I wanted to gather some close Friends and Intimates for a moment of music performed on my favorite synthesiser and tibetan bowls, to share warmth and fraternity. Beyond this small group of persons, these improvisations are offered to everyone in this world, with the hope to bring all women and men peace and serenity. They are a travel to light.
A the beginning of them, I chant a mantra for healing : "Om Shree Dhanvantree Nahma".

With all my love and compassion for everyone

I dedicate this concert to my dear cousin Jean-Luc who has suffered from the bad virus and went to hospital but has now fully recovered. I will soon come back home and share again life with his wife !"

Répétition du concert du 15 Mai 2018

Published on May 18, 2018 RADIOKLOW

A new performance from MATRIXSYNTH reader RADIOKLOW, known for his compositions with the Access Virus TI. Side note: his music was actually the tipping point for me in finally picking up a Virus TI2. I have analog and VA covered. RADIOKLOW's experimental use of the Virus TI proved it was capable of much more. But, enough of me. The above is a rehearsal video with some interesting visuals. The below is the actual concert. The composition was done with RADIOKLOW's students.

Concert du 15 Mai 2018 : Raison, Rêves et autres délires

Published on May 18, 2018 RADIOKLOW

"This concert was given on Thuesday 15 May 2018 by the Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created seven years ago. On this special occasion, we performed a show including music and a film.

Saturday 12th of may 2018, eight of the nine members of the Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created seven years ago, gathered at my home to rehearse with me our concert of the 15th of may. This rehearsal appeared to us interesting enough to be presented to the public. Since the filming of it was only a work document consisting on a unique picture with nothing interested to be seen in it, we decided we would use here the film created to be shown during the concert.

Our theme was this year : 'Reason, Dreams and other deliriums'.

During the sessions of the seventh season every student worked on magic objects and created an original work. These objects and works are shown in the film. Various quotations of philosophers and poets about our notions give a written echo to the images and the music.

The music was performed on an Access Virus TI 1, Roland Fantom XR for the piano sound, acoustic instruments including : tibetan bowls, bells, indian cymbals, stones, marbles, various decoys, flutes and two electric guitars.

The musicians are :
Victor Chemla : Virus TI, various percussion instruments and decoys
Herménégilde Claux : Virus TI, various percussion instruments and decoys
Grégoire Lombard : Roland Fantom XR
Louisian Germain : Electric guitar, shaman drum, various percussion instruments
Valesca Goulmot : Various percussion instruments and decoys
Antoine Grimaud : Electric guitar
Clara Maeso : Various percussion instruments
Lucas Mollard : Virus TI, various percussion instruments
Foucauld Monteux : Flute, various percussion instruments and decoys
Marc-Henri Arfeux : Virus TI
As a bonus, you will find a composition I created and perform alone on a Little Phatty. This composition, exploring in the same field as the music for the concert, is called : Ritual of bowls."

Matière Noire - Spectacle du 17 Mai 2017

Published on May 19, 2017 RADIOKLOW

"Matière Noire - Spectacle du 17 Mai 2017 (Black Matter - Show of the 17th of May 2017), is a live concert performed by the Philosophy and Electronic Music Worshop of Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.

Music by

Lauren Niculescu (Access Virus TI, Roland V Synth XT, and Moog Little Phatty)
Léo Mouton (Access Virus TI and Roland V Synth XT)
Herménégilde Claux, (A100 Doepfer and MiniMoog Voyager Electric Blue)
Marc-Henri Arfeux [RADIOKLOW] ( A100 Doepfer, Moog Little Phatty, MiniMoog Voyager Electric Blue and Access Virus TI).

Dance Performance by Julia Houdin

Film shown during the concert by Herménégilde Claux, Lucien Mouton and Marc-Henri Arfeux

Concert filmed by Jérémy Ferhadian at Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

Final monting and titles : Marc-Henri Arfeux

Paintings and drawings of the film by Léo Mouton, Olivier Michel and Marc-Henri Arfeux

The object of this concert and its film was the exploration of unconsciousness in the perspective of the Psychology of Archetypes created and developed by Carl Gustav Jung."

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Promenade Improvisation

Published on Jun 17, 2016 RADIOKLOW

All Access Virus TI.

"Music, painted box of the generic and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux.

'Promenade Improvisation' ('Walk Improvisation'), is what was filmed of a mini concertI gave on the 4th of June. This performance of improvisation lasted 30 minutes but in the middle of it, the filming was interrupted by chance and reloaded so that only a part of this set was finally shot. Nevertheless, it gives a good idea of what I have done and of the circumstances of this mini concert.

I was invited by the association Arthésée to perform electronic improvisations in an exhibition of paintings by Erro, one of the most famous masters of the european creation influenced by many currents among which Fluxus, Cobra, the new figurative school of the sixties, comics, etc.

The principle of this action was that I would start to play while the visitors of the exhibition would walk among the paintings and watch them, during 30 minutes. They would have the choice to come and sit behind me, to remain in front of the paintings or to go out after their visit.

On the film you see some to the visitors finish to gather and sit behind me. At the opening, there is only one person, and during the performance, others come and sit to listen. The performance ends with the persons who decided to stay in the room.

I play on my favorite Virus TI. Of course, all sounds are my creation.

I thank Thésée, founder and president of Arthésée to have given me the opportunity to live this very singular and fascinating experience.

The mysterious painted box you see at the beginning of the film is a work I created between April and May of this year. It has no relationship with the painting exhibition, but I preferred to show it instead of works by Erro for rights reasons."

Hanami Sakura

Published on May 30, 2016 RADIOKLOW

"Hanami Sakura, ('Ceremony of Cherry trees blossom' in japanese) is a concert performance which was given Tuesday 17 May 2016, by the Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created 5 years ago at Lycée Edouard Herriot of Lyon.

To celebrate this fifth birthday, the students and I invited an french artist, Claire Deville, to join us on stage to improvise a performance by drawing with sewing threads in one of my paintings devoted to the cherry trees blossom. An abstract film I created was shown during the performance.

Our concert was divided into 14th parts, each one corresponding to a poetic meditation upon the blossom. From time to time, a haïku was said by one of the performers.

Lauren Niculescu, Edouard Klein, Arnaud Marthinet, Léo Mouton and Benjamin Tobalem played the Virus TI, Edouard playing also a Djembe. Victor Hunkler played a rain stick, the Djembe and a Little Phatty. Arnaud sometimes played also the Little Phatty. I played a Minimoog Voyager, Electric Blue. All sounds on each synthesizer are our creation.

The film was shot for the Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshopby Cassiopée Veyret"

En Mode Masculin Féminin

Published on Jul 5, 2013 RADIOKLOW·87 videos

Details via Marc-Henri including synths for each part:

"I am very happy to share with you this film and this music, as a tribute to the creations of a young artist in haute couture, William Kerney, 'present on Facebook), who is only 18 years old and student in term year of my the high school where I teach. I composed the music and the film was built from various sources : movies and photos shot by me and members of the team who worked on this project. Photographers, assistants, hairdressers, cosmeticians, models are all students at Lycée Edouard Herriot of lyon, France.

William Kerney conceived himself all the gowns and hats, from the basis skteches to the final production, including the sewing of every clothe and worked one year on this project.

The film begins with the collections he created during the first semester of 2013, and goes on with the fashion parade he presented around his theme of masculinity and feminity, at Lycée Edouard in may 2013, during the Week of Performing Arts of this high school. It is followed, after the end credits by a bonus consisting of two interviews in french. The first one with William Kerney and his assistant Tristan Fiancette, the second one with me as a teacher of philosophy at Lycée Edouard Herriot, teacher in charge of Culture Life in this high school composer of this music, editor of this film and author of some of the images it contains, just after the fashion parade.

All sounds on Virus TI were created by me. Sounds of other real or virtual instruments are patches of these instruments : mainly Roland Phantom XR - orchestra and voices and piano expanding cards of the SRX series : SRX-02 : "Concert Piano" and SRX-O6, "Complete Orchestra" and SRX - and also feminine choirs from Voices of Passion by Eastwest. At the end of the composition he created a special sound on Alchemy by Camel Audio and played it myself (see below) during the final part of the composition : it is not a sequence nor an automatic pulsation.

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Lumen Aqua & Hadikat Raja XXII

Published on May 4, 2013 RADIOKLOW·82 videos

"Composition for Virus TI, percussions and Steinway concert piano of Miroslav Philarmonik by IK Multimedia, and natural sounds."

Hadikat Raja XXII, Première Partie

Published on May 3, 2013 RADIOKLOW·82 videos

"First part of the twenty second visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI and Little Phatty. Music, film and all arts by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

Hadikat Raja XXII, Deuxième Partie

Published on May 3, 2013

"Second part of the twenty second visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI and Little Phatty. Music, film and all arts by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

On the synths featured: "Virus, the Little Phatty and the classical percussion set of Miroslav Philarmonik. The Little Phatty can be heard at the following times, mostly playing in association with the Virus :

05:25-05:57
10:43-10:52
10:55-12:09
12:11-12:18
12:28-12:56
14:12-14:53

The percussion set of Miroslav appears two times. First, with the Virus which plays its own percussion part with sounds I created : 08:37-09:21 A second time at the very end of the piece as you will notice."

Performing in a Cathedral - Marc-Henri at Saint Bonaventure in Lyon

Published on Apr 15, 2013 RADIOKLOW·77 videos

The Access Virus acts as a controller in this performance. The first sounds you hear are actually the Roland V-Synth XT. Later it controls the Snow. The Little Phatty controls the Blofeld.

'Concert with poetic reading given at Saint Bonaventure of Lyon, during the festival "Artistic Adventures at the Cordeliers' the 10th of march 2013.

With Marie-Ange Sebasti : poems and Marc-Henri Arfeux : synthesizers (Virus TI, Roland V-Synth XT, Virus Snow Blofeld, Little Phatty).

Many thanks to Michel Morlot.

This concert lasted one hour, but since we had small technical problems with the filming, I decided to select 45mn of the whole show, divided into five moments, from the beginning to the end."

Marc-Henri dedicates the performance to the people of Boston and the inocent victims.


Update: Video of the performance added above.

Pics of via Marc-Henri's (aka RADIOKLOW) setup and performance at Saint Bonaventure in Lyon. The performance was yesterday, April 10.  Four of the pics were taken in the afternoon before the performance. The second to last is a still from a video of the performance which will be available at a later date.  You can see an Access Virus TI & Snow, Moog Little Phatty, Roland V-Synth XT Rack and Waldorf Blofeld. I asked Marc-Henri if I could post the images as you do not see this every day. The video of the performance will follow when ready. Until then, see the RADIOKLOW and Marc-Henri links above for previous posts featuring Marc-Henri's work. He is a true explorer of sound and his compositions with the Access Virus Ti are reminiscent of what others do with expansive modular systems.

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Concert de Nantes 1

YouTube via RADIOKLOW | August 15, 2010

Moog Voyager and Access Virus
"First part of a concert of improvisations given by Marc-Henri Arfeux at the "Bitche', a center for performing arts of Nantes, the 25 march 2010. This film was shot by Olivier Briand and edited by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

Concert de Nantes 2


Concert de Nantes 3

Concert d'Angers 1

YouTube via RADIOKLOW | August 13, 2010

"Two little improvisations by Marc-Henri Arfeux at the Silver Club, ENSBA of Angers, the 25 March 2010."

Concert d'Angers 2


via Marc-Henri Arfeux: "National School of Fine Arts of Angers (France). As usual in the concerts I perform, I played totally improvised musics. Here on Virus TI, Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue and Roland Phantom XR, only using synthesis sounds I created especially for this occasion, voices and strings as well as all the other sounds you can hear here.
Receive my best friendly regards,
Marc-Henri Arfeux"