HOPEN

Geneva, Switzerland

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About

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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R.fm, Apr 28, 2009:

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subcult, Jan 1, 2008:

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

Staley, Dec 29, 2007:

Staley, Nov 23, 2007:

Busy with life. Sounds are good. Soon?

Stefano Giust, Nov 12, 2007:

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