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Syn-Anton's sound wanderings are stagings, developed according to a perpetual movement.
At the crossroads of ambient, noise, post-rock, post-industrial, electronica, noise, or even folk, classical and contemporary music, Syn-Anton, the musician-composer-performing artist, has been tracing his path for 27 years... one foot here, the other there... It will often be found on side roads...
His sound worlds are ambient, sometimes industrial or magical. Living and organic, they resonate sounds from natural sources (noises, voices, etc.) and artificial sources (digital sounds), which in turn send images.
His various collaborations and commissions attest to this openness to research, and his solo albums, released by the collective/label Prasca, which have distinguished themselves --matières premières at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards (2006) and Manolo on Juliet by the media libraries of the city of Paris (2008)), testify to this: his inspiration and his poetic visions come from his encounters with artists, dancers, musicians, writers, directors, visual artists...:
Philharmonie de Paris, Cinémas93, Harmonic Permanent Drive (arrangements, machines and siging on "Waiting [for joy]" album -2025), Treponem Pal (modeling, arrangements, machines on the cover "Cherchez le garçon" by Taxi Girl on "World citizens" album - 2025), Von Magnet, Norscq, Ann Hamilton, Julie Legrand, 2.2, Gyomh, Vasco Araujo, Krzystof Wodiczko, E.5131, Camille Mutel, Okarukas, Rhys Chatham, Mariexxme, ...
syn- : from the ancient Greek σύν, sún (« with », « together »).
here : bringing together the different art forms
" If behind the term 'syn-' lies the muted, the crystalline, the insistent, we can say, without seeking paronomasia, that this music is synesque, goes back to its origins. What origins? ?
A music that never stops knocking at the door until it is opened. Tirelessly, alternating between bass, clarity, acoustic, and electronic, it takes turns donning each of the masks of seduction to achieve its ends. To do this, it brings together dualities : flesh and machine, elements derived from nature and artificial (computer) elements. What origins ? The air, or rather the wind: creator and propagator of sounds. Movements, vibrations, material and spatial observation of the progression of time. The expression of human feelings temporarily freezes in rhythm and repetition, then escapes. Violence rubs shoulders with serenity.
The obscure is only a pessimism induced by an era that the original harmony of nature, and of humanity itself, soothes. Music that recounts human servitude and offers a path to freedom, recounts and uses the past, anticipates the future.
The music of 'Syn-Anton', in turn, as if in gratitude, engenders image and gesture.
Open the door to her, she will open hers to you "
Hum Toks 27.12.2002