On the evening of Friday, September 20, we are proudly hosting Robert Pepper’s experimental music/media project Pas Musique (NYC), noise artist Mathieu Sylvestre (FR), and Reon Moebius’ project Collector of Dust (CMH). Doors 7:30pm, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $8.00 prepaid, $10 at the door.
About the artists:
Autodidact musician based in Berlin, Germany since 2010, Mathieu Sylvestre (FR) came to noise music after 10 years as vocalist and guitarist in rock music field. With guitars, cello, effect pedals and contact microphones, he first experimented on sounds and noises to work on the origin of vibrations by straight analog means. After guitar noise experiments he developed sound pieces from field recordings and Moog analog synthesizers sound sources. After hundreds of shows since 2010 in Europe and worldwide this work is constantly enriched by different contexts and places. He has performed in several performance festivals and art events, in art galleries as music performer or as performance artist. The live electronic sound performances based on improvised patterns have been evolving show after show and highlight boundaries between analog sound textures and the core of electronic vibrations that focuses on bringing noise music a plastic and physical approach. On the other hand, Mathieu Sylvestre composed sound tracks for visual artists as Wolfgang Petrick (D) or Saskia Edens (CH) and work to provide sound design on live shows in collaboration with Performance artists Frédéric Krauke (D), NoMass -contemporary dance- (GR), Physical Poets -Butoh- (JP), Non Grata, (Est) Diverse Universe Tours from 2012 to 2019 and music/sound design of the movie Symbiosis (2024). He was assistant of visual artist Till Velten between 2015 and 2019 in Basel (CH). Several collaborating side projects are on the track since 2018 with Sonus Eorum (Drone/Noise) Reichenhall (Ambient Noise) and Uncoppen, Saw (Spoken world Tribal Noise). And as claimed by the Beat Poet Ron Whitehead: “Listen listen listen to the droning mesmerizing exploding noise of Mathieu Sylvestre as he creates and performs the soundtrack for the performance art underworld.”
Pas Musique emerged from Brooklyn, New York in 1995 as a solo project of founder Robert L. Pepper and has since gone through many variations of experimental, electronic iterations. Pas Musique pursues the musical elements of electronic, experimental music with krautrock undertones. Pas Musique have collaborated with many great musicians which include Faust, Rapoon, Martin Bisi, ZEV, Philippe Petit, HATI, Chester Hawkins, JOHN 3:16, and many more. Pas Musique have performed in 18 countries and all throughout the United States.
Reon Moebius is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the independent internet record label Argali Records, which he co-operates with Nathan James Carter since 2009. As a transplant to Columbus: Reon Moebius has been actively working on both recorded material for his various band projects and loosely involved in performing at various special events and venues within Franklin County since moving in 2017 either as a solo performer under the moniker ‘Seagull Died On Impact’ or involved in adhoc ensembles with other local Columbus musicians involved in various underground/experimental music circles.
Over ten years in the making: Collector Of Dust integrates many of Reon’s formal musical influences such as contemporary classical, post punk, post rock, dreampop, & shoegaze to be synthesized in the studio as a one-man orchestra: multi tracked instruments & crooned vocals layered to create sweeping and hauntingly minimal song based compositions that are more than the sum of their parts. The goal of this project is to as Reon put it: ‘make the intimate grand & make the grand intimate’. By bringing ambitiously avant garde inclinations and endeavors out of stuffy academic institutions and into open, public spaces such as DIY art galleries and local music audiences.
Collector Of Dust makes it’s live performance debut initially as a duo featuring Reon playing bowed electric guitar, singing,and handling live drum machine programming and Drew Sherrick accompanying him on effects laden electric upright bass. But in any future live setting: this project is meant to be a collaborative venture for Reon and whomever is enlisted given the circumstances to flesh out his self described ‘wall of sound/chambergaze’ song-suites and presenting to audiences ‘the intimate made grand and the grand made intimate’.