Antoine Chessex
Dust
*2022 stock.* Dust is a piece composed by the Swiss artist Antoine Chessex. A slow meta-physical progression, the junction of tense violins and a revoxian dust, juxtaposing, overlapping, resorbing and accompanying each other, before exploding in a powerful final catharsis. Like a proposal for departure towards infinity, a before-after Big Bang, highly successful, disturbing at times as is the vast unknown… the music of a ship leaving for the limits of the cosmos perhaps, in any case it can reson…
Maiandros
Testimony to the first encounter of the trio during a concert given at the cave12 on the 28.10.2020, on the same evening of the new Covid announcements which brought on a re-confinement in France, and eve to a six-month long shutdown of cultural places in Switzerland. A concert from which we emerged staggering and with burning ears due to the ongoing crisis surrounding us. A masterful sonic performance. Before silence.
Drawing from the dense and intense sound material of the evening, Francisco M…
Echo/Cide / The Experience of Limit
Edition of 270. Two beautiful new compositions by Swiss composer, sound artist and sound theorist Antoine Chessex. "Echo/Cide" for four hammered dulcimers and cimbalum (2018) was composed by Antoine Chessex and performed by Ekleto Ensemble. Recorded by Thierry Simonot at l'Alhambra, Geneva, October 2018. "The Experience Of Limit" for grand piano (2019) was composed by Antoine Chessex and performed by Tamriko Kordzaia. Recorded by Nicolas Buzzi at Theater Rigiblick, Zurich, March 2019. Cover phot…
Subjectivation
Subjectivation is the new solo album from Swiss artist Antoine Chessex. Produced by Rekem Records (GR/UK) and Fragment Factory (DE), it features some of his most direct and developed work to date. Using material from solo live performances in San Francisco, Berlin, Zürich and London between 2010 and 2015, the sides of this record distill the touchstones of Antoine's sonic language into two sharp and forceful statements. The first side opens with a formidable tour-de-force, a developing field of …
Tele.s.therion - Luzifers Abschied
Acousmatic black metal. A concept album based on the namesake fourth scene of «Samstag aus Licht», from the opera «Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche», composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Unfolding the margins
"The main purpose of this work is to explore the context in which freelance artists are working today while addressing the growing importance of the economic aspect within the artistic field, the imperative for freelance artists to become self-entrepreneurs and the mechanisms of their subjectivation. Furthermore, this text tries to investigate the possibility of alternatives and the different forms of ambivalence resulting from it. The work will tackle these topics by trying to realise a …
Werktag/Chessex/Buess
Werktag / Chessex / Buess takes its roots in the Zurich based trio Werktag, initiated in 2012, and to which Alex Buess and Antoine Chessex are now both bringing their own contribution.Wertag (Tobias Gerber, saxophone; Rafael Rütti, piano; Sebastian Hofmann, drums) evolves in the tension field between written, experimental and improvised music and tends to have a weakness for the combination of acoustic instruments and live multi-track electronic music. As a result, the volume is sometimes prett…
Terra incognita
Terra Incognita is a documentation of Antoine Chessex's live stuff recorded in Berlin and in Asia. 2 sax / electronics blasts, capturing as much as possible of Antoine’s live energy and atmosphere. Harsh Noise pieces with only very little recognizable sax-playing. Comes in a nice fold-out cover with full colour artwork inside. The record is basically a 12″ on one side and a 7″ on the other.
Striked accidentally to do a 1sided LP of Antoine's work a couple of months ago. Turned out to be no more …
Fools
Solo release by Antoine Chessex, Fools presents studio material recorded in 2008 in Berlin. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Chessex is his ability to take a single instrument Ña tenor saxophoneÑ and seamlessly move between the hallmarks of musical genres that many others simply get stuck in. As an immersive journey into the physicality of sounds, FOOLS features phasing microtonal explorations of time and space, dense layers of harsh electrified explosions, deep droning textures and moments …
Multiple
A cloud of quick gray motion, a presence in the forefront, then rapid withdrawal. A dazzling cloud, swirling, drawing together to the thinnest of waists, then wildly twisting in pulses of enlargement and diminution, a fluid choreography of funnels, ribbons, and hourglasses, spills and mixing, ever in motion and achieved through scale-free correlations.
Selected Chamber Music Works 2009-2013
Four chamber music pieces by Swiss composer Antoine Chessex. Including: Angst Miniature (for strings and tape, 2009), Metakatharsis (for ensemble, live-electronics and tape, 2010), Ritournelle Fulgurante (for ensemble, 2013), Schichten (for ensemble, 2011). Comes with 12 page booklet. Edition of 300 copies.Antoine Chessex is a swiss composer, saxophone player and sound artist born in 1980 in Vevey (CH). His works assume a wide diversity of forms spanning compositions for ensembles, solo perf…