Antoine Chessex is a multifaceted artist whose work blurs the boundaries between noise, politics of sound, audio deconstruction, and artistic research while transversally exploring sonic imaginations. 

Chessex creates ominous sonic fictions investigating the plasticity of space and time. Selected instrumental works include Les Abîmes Hallucinés, La Résonance des Ruines, The Experience of Limit, and Echo/cide.

As a performer, he plays the tenor saxophone through distorting stacks of guitar amplifiers to create monolithic walls of electrified textures and intense live actions as documented on Subjectivation. 

As a researcher, Chessex engages critically with discourses and positions within the sound studies field. More specifically, his research focuses the possible relations between sound, listening, artistic practices and cultural analysis.

Chessex is a founding member of the band Monno with whom he toured extensively. He also curates platforms and festivals for adventurous sonic practices and is the editor of the publication Multiple.

His works have been presented at Cafe OTO (London), Transmediale festival (Berlin), Ultima contemporary music festival (Oslo),Videotage (Hong Kong), Diapason Gallery (New York), Issue Project Room (New York), The Lab (San Francisco), The Compound (San Francisco), INA/GRM Présence électronique Festival (Paris), Berghain (Berlin),      Tuned City festival (Berlin), Alexandrinsky Theatre (St-Petersburg),     Sonic Protest festival (Paris), Unsound festival (Krakow), Archipel festival (Geneva), Women (Los Angeles), Ultra Hang festival (Budapest), Parnassos concert hall (Athen), Ateliers Claus (Brussels), Vaal Gallery (Tallinn), Dom (Moscow), Grim (Marseilles), All Ears Festival (Oslo), Corsica Studios (London), Sound Forest festival (Riga), Urban Guild (Kyoto), Urga (Tokyo), Ochiai Soup (Tokyo), Namba Bear (Osaka), Swissnex (San Francisco), Center of contemporary arts (Warsaw), Fundacion Serralves (Porto), Palace Akropolis (Prague), Tam Tuumb! Festival (Roma), Audio Art Festival (Krakow), Meteo Festival (Mulhouse), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), Ze Dos Bois (Lisbon), Elastic Arts (Chicago), HAU (Berlin), Mochvara (Zagreb), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Ancienne Belgique (Brussels), LUFF festival (Lausanne), Ruin Festival (Wien), Echo festival (Belgrade), Fylkingen (Stockholm), Sendesaal Bremen, DNK(Amsterdam), Istituto Svizzero (Roma), Rotterdam Film Festival and Fri Art (Fribourg), .

 


further resources:

publications HERE

list of works HERE

Article in Le Temps

Interview in Neo

interview on 15 questions website: HERE

interview on Tokafi  PART I & PART II


Interview Impulse/Eklekto

reviews of apartment house/noetinger/chessex: on bad alchemy & aural aggravation & a closer listen & the sound projector

reviews of selected chamber music works:  on the wire & touching extremes & a closter listen

reviews of DUST:  on a closter listen & touching extremes & bad alchemy & blow up & neural

live reviews on counterfnord & the new noise & berliner zeitung

portrait in newspaper satakunnan kansa in finland

reviews  of errances on improv sphere & vital weekly

reviews of fools: on crucial blast,  tokafi & still single & paris transantlic & existence establishment

reviews  of monno on taz & des cendres à la cave & pertes et fracas

earlier reviews selection of solo works here

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photo by Daniel Caccin, 2022