EFFRACTION VACANCES
AAAh noise mutant pop ballad
EFFRACTION VACANCES
The two artists have been collaborating since 2018 with the duo Effraction Vacances, a live improvised performance format based on 1990s/2000s pop music - different each time - which is presented as a decomposed sculpture. For this new form, the artists focus on the possibilities of interweaving different moments live, playing over wide dynamic ranges inspired by both Instagram culture and drone music.
In 2023, the two artists return with a brand new live concert, performed at the Archipel Festival in Geneva and at the Digitales in Zurich. In this new live version, the musicians continue to explore the issues of capitalism, innovation and programmed obsolescence. A concert that goes straight to the wall, with a dose of humour and experimental pop. welcome to the always more more more more more more more more more more.
In May 2024, they return with a new proposition and a brand new K7 to be released later this year.
EFFRACTION VACANCES
Les deux artistes collaborent depuis 2018 avec le duo Effraction Vacances, un format de jeu improvisé en direct basé sur la musique pop des années 1990/2000 – différent à chaque fois – qui se présente comme une sculpture décomposée. Pour cette nouvelle forme, les artistes se concentrent sur les possibilités d’imbrication de différents moments en live, en jouant sur de larges plages dynamiques inspirées à la fois de la culture Instagram et de la musique drone.
En 2023, les deux artistes reviennent avec un tout nouveau concert live joués au Festival Archipel de Genève et aux Digitales de Zurich. Dans cette nouvelle version live, les musiciennes continuent d'explorer les questions du capitalisme, de l'innovation et de l'obsolescence programmée. Un concert qui va droit dans le mur avec une dose d'humour et de pop experimentale. welcome to the always more more more more more more more.
En mai 2024, elles reviennent avec une nouvelle proposition et une K7 inédite à venir dans le courant de l’année.
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Julie Semoroz is singer, sound artist and head of artistic projects. Semoroz shapes sound using several sources such as field recordings, live microphones and her own voice with software and hardware. She offers sound pieces like inner journeys into the subconscious that penetrate into the darkness. Her work focuses on people’s individual relationship with mechanical and organic time. Her creations address new technologies and our post-industrial consumerist society. In her ecology-based research, in the sense of “habitat”, Julie Semoroz raises the question of how to experience our bodies and lives in the society.
https://juliesemoroz.ch/
https://jmosound.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/juliesemoroz
https://www.instagram.com/jsemoroz
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Emma Souharce lives with her electric and electronic instruments which she transforms and manipulates some- times like toys, sometimes like tools of massive decomposition. With a disconcerting freedom of movement, between lo-fi caresses and screams of micro-machines, she sculpts in the sound material to extract the most subtle harmonies and dissonances. Through its turbulent and rugged physical landscapes, this ritualist alchemist works a trance from a series of intense movements to benevolent resolution, with the secret ambition to reach complete symbiotic states.
http://www.emmasouharce.com
https://souharce.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/emma3000_ -
DATES
2023
20.08 Les digitales, Zurich, CH
15.04 Grand V, Virieux le grand, FR
02.04 Archipel, Genève, CH
31.03 Röstibrucke, Kaserne, Bâle, CH
2022
05.06 Rhizom Festival, Rote Fabrik, Zürich, CH
12.06 sieste sonore, Le Commun, CH
2021
01.04 Cave 12, Geneva, CH
29.05 Shedhalle, Bern
27.08 Festival Meteo Mullhouse, FR
09.09 Short Theater Festival,Roma, IT
10.09 Ex Asilo Filangieri, Naples, IT
12.09 Circolo Dev, Bologne,IT
15.09 Spettro, Brescia, IT
17.09 Industriestrasse, Luzern, CH
18.09 Rathausbühne, Willisau, CH
19.09 Acousmonium multidiff,Fribourg, CH
23.09 Umbo, Zürich,CH
30.10 salle du Cazard, Lausanne, CH
19.11 Strom Am Mittag, Zurich, CH
27.11 wt Maya Rochat,Les Créatives,Grand Théâtre, Genève, CH
2020
11.07 Cour du collège Bellevue et Collège Numa-Droz, Chaux de Fonds, CH
23.08 Le Pont, CH
23.09 Eyes On Festival, Südpol, Kriens, CH
26.09 The Fabrik, Vienna, AT
27.09 P.M.K, Innsbruck, AT
28.09 Le Che, Chaux-de-Fonds, CH
29.09 Le Mouton Noir, Fribourg, CH
2019
13.06 EEEH, Nyon, CH
14.06 Cave 12, Geneva, CH
14.12 CAN, Neuchâtel, Suisse
2018
13.11 NoiseInGrad 1 @ BarInGrad, Rez Usine, Geneva, CH
Photos © Bigou et Oliv
EFFRACTION VACANCES
AAAh noise mutant pop ballad
EFFRACTION VACANCES
The first version of Effraction vacances (Julie Semoroz and Emma Souharce) was a mutant pop ballad set against a backdrop of field recording. The two partners took a mainstream song as the starting point for each of their concerts, breaking it down brutally to extract an exhilarating magma of sound. Since then, they've been exploring different ways of mixing noise, pop and experimental tracks, which they renew every year.
EFFRACTION VACANCES
La première version d’Effraction vacances (Julie Semoroz et Emma Souharce) proposait une balade mutante pop sur fonds de field recording. Les deux complices prenaient comme point de départ de chacun de leurs concerts une chanson mainstream qu’elles décomposaient brutalement pour en extraire un magma sonore jouissif. Depuis, elle explorent différentes manières de mélanger la noise, la pop et des plages expérimentales qu’elles renouvelles chaque année.