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HOPEN

Geneva, Switzerland

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HOPEN

HOPEN is a sound project based in Switzerland producing electronic and experimental music.
Using architectures of hazard and chance, influenced first by sounds, daily noises and music experimentation
from Zappa, Autechre, Luc Ferrari, Subrosa label, the Liars and not especially musicians a lot of his interest
is coming from the image world, story telling, poetry, reading or living theater from the 70s to now.
The idea is to produce and share a moment, a journey of experimental living music...
More there: www.irrigationworks.net


Releases:::
2007: HOPEN aka LAWN LLION STEP.1 Out on Audioactivity Netlabel
2007: HOPEN vs Henri Death "SHI" Out on LEEP records
2007: One track with LENA "Deja Vu" on his new album "The Uncertain Trail" Out on SoundsAround Records
2007: NetRelease "Nine in Bohmem" Out on Plexrecords
2006: NetRelease "La Paz" Out on IneeditRecords
2006: "Expedition 0.2" V/A - One track on Everest Records
2006: Hopen LP Live Ltd / "Edges" on Leep / Les Enregistrements de l'Europe Parisien
2006: Hopen NetLP / "Spoken with fire in the green night" on Adozen.org
2006: Chaton+Hopen - Dreaming surfaces parts EP / Num-records
2005: Chaton+Hopen- Plak Reconstruction by Donatto Dozzy and Agnès -plak08 / Plak
2005: Hopen LP Live Ltd / "In the time I went to America" on C. electronic
2005: Hopen LP/ "We are singing for hurrays" on Arbouserecordings
2005: Nowhere-Place des vosges(chaton+hopen rmx) + Galaxy from UR -Mental Groove
2005: Chaton+Hopen-Monk is rolling-plak04 / Plak Records
2004: Chaton+Hopen/Miss Dinky- MGLTD - Mental Groove
2004: Chaton+Hopen-an area + remix by hrdvsion plak03 / Plak
2004: "Tales of unrest" V/A - One track on Imploz
2003: Hopen LP/ Fed by the mountains... - LP. Plak
2002: 1 track Sampler hangUp 3 / Twine, Carpets music, Domotic, L'altra, Explosions in the sky, E*rock...
2002: Hopen / Project 74 sur Tsunami Addiction / -1 Track-12 min. "74".06
2001: Hopen CdrLP/ Nailing shadows (arboufirststep001/Arbouse recordings)

Live sets:::
June 2007: FRI-ART Sonicdays Festival at Fri-son with Fennesz, Erik M... / Fribourg
June 2007: Everest Records Releases Party At the I.Fluss / Bern
May 2007: Hopen live the Museum of Contemporary Art / Nuits Sonores Lyon
January 2007: Sound performance at the OPA with LEEP Village / Paris
November 2006: Sound performance at the Case à Chocs in Neuchatel / Switzerland
September 2006: Sound performance at the NetaudioLondon festival / London
April 2006: Live at R3s3t market in Bern /Switzerland
February 2006: Live at Dach Kantine in Zurich /Switzerland
November 2005: Live at Fri-Son in Fribourg during a Adozen netlabel night
August 2005: Hopen live set "Sun Tunnels " performed at the Museum Puech in Rodez
June 2005: Llive set performed at the Registratur in Munich
May 2005: Live set performed at the PanoramaBar in Berlin
March 2005: Live at Dach Kantine in Zurich during the Live Festival /Switzerland
February 2005: Live at Fri-Son in Fribourg during a Koroke night /Switzerland
November 2004: Hopen Live set "Constellation#1" at the Patchinko /Geneva
November 2004: Hopen Live set "Constellation#1" on BASIC.CH /Geneva
October 2004: Live at Fri-Son in Fribourg /Switzerland
2003: Lives on BASIC.CH /Geneva
November 2003: Live at Weetamix Geneva/Plak-Records night
April 2002: Batofar with dDamage et Lena /Paris

Press:::
THE WIRE / OCTOPUS/ France - le journal des musiques libres /
Magic! revue pop moderne / DE:BUG magazine /Berlin
Broken face magazine by Mats Gustafsson (Jim O'Rourke, Sonic Youth...)

Websites and contact:::

upobox@yahoo.fr

www.irrigationworks.net


www.myspace.com/hopenchilde



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  • Unsigned London 2007

    Unsigned London 2007

  • Lawn Llion first step

    Lawn Llion first step

  • Expedition 0.2 V/A

    Expedition 0.2 V/A

  • Spoken with fire...

    Spoken with fire...



Comments - see all 16

SubCult says:

All best in 08! Dmitry Subochev - music-electronic.net

posted Jan 1


Staley says:

posted Dec 29


Staley says:

Busy with life. Sounds are good. Soon?

posted Nov 23


Stefano Giust says:

ciao childe, thank you very much for your comment... i'm really interested to working together, but unfortunately my only problem in this moment is that i'm very very busy!! but please keep in touch!! have a cosmic day stefano

posted Nov 12


Svensyntetics says:

Me Too and you TOO , Makes Two too

posted Oct 19


opuswerk says:

liking your sounds a lot!! Looking forward to hearing you in geneva soon... at least i hope so...

posted Oct 17


Ziplok says:

Hey , hows it going. When you check out my music hit me up and tell me what you think. Peace Ziplok

posted Jul 31


david fenech says:

merci de ton intérêt tes sons sont très chouette wep david

posted Jul 31


Misk says:

thanks for the add. really appreciate it :)

posted Jul 25


Leo Wannaz says:

Virb really looks like more interesting than other music blogs communities. I am waiting too Leo

posted Jul 24


Spirits In Ambience says:

Greetings Childe, Always a pleasure to have a new friend from Switzerland, some cool electro tracks you've posted here! All the best to you and your musical endeavors, Cheers, SIA

posted Jul 23


Serge Batman says:

Ho ho ho ! Ca va bien et toi ? Je vois qu'il y'a de nouvelles sorties de ton côté ! En tout cas content de te recroiser ici, à bientôt ; )

posted Jul 23


Chose Chaton says:

Brilliant!

posted Jul 20


Oceanik Creations says:

Do you kown the SWAMP POWER, Mister Hopen ? I 'm sure you have taste it. Warm regards from Oceanik galaxy. Keep on your amazing music. Jrom/ Jrhum (but i prefer red wine and beer)

posted Jul 19


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