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 main-stay band projects (Collector Of Dust/Seagull Died On Impact), and loosely involved in performing at various special events and venues within Franklin County since moving in 2017. Seagull Died On Impact, Reon’s second outfit, was created to fill in for solo live performances to loosen pressure on the limitations imposed on his first band project due to lack of immediate collaborators and bandmates. Centered around thunderous synthesizer bass drones, ritualistic drum machine programming, Reon’s solo electric violin playing is given a vast yet intimate space to soar across: inspired by the taut, hypnotic minimalism of the seminal New York industrial duo Suicide & Canadian avant garde violinist Nash The Slash. In a live setting, this project is meant to bring the intense ‘wall of sound’ approach of the flagship outfit into a more direct and visceral manner.