In
France, from 1992 to 1996, I have written reviews, articles and have took live concert
photos during the whole adventure
of the industrial fanzine
SYMPOSIUM. I have collaborated with some others french fanzines like OMEGA as well.
At the same time, I have also managed the micro tape label EXPREL.
In 1997, I begin to work as a free-lance sound engineer in the audiovisual field in Paris and stopped an active involvement
in the scene. I only come back in the industrial sphere in 2003, making the mastering of the last albums of my old comrade
47 ASHES, who also created the Gods &
Beasts logo.
In 2005, I co-produced the first
THERAPIE AUDITIVE
festival and I continued to be involved in the others, mostly in
filming and managing the video projections for the bands. I also did,
and still do, the same kind of work for other french live concerts
organizers :
CYNFEIRDD,
STEELWORK MASCHINE,
LES SONS PARANORMAUX,
AU DELA DU SILENCE, and more recently
AMORTOUT and
L'ATELIER DE CREATION EXPERIMENTALE.
Still in 2005, I supervised the postproduction of the musical dvd
RVB-TRANSFERT. Co-produced with
INFRASTITION and
OPTICAL SOUND, this dvd is a huge
video-clip sampler of the french independant scene of the
eighties. It gathered for the first time lots of archives unseen or rare, between post-punk,
cold-wave, avant-garde pop,
industrial and experimental music.
I also wrote a dozen of biographies of industrial and experimental french bands for the book
CARNETS NOIRS and have written for the webzine
OBSKÜRE until 2007. In 2006, I have reloaded my own experimental musical project named
VINCI.
Since then, I am helping
Eric Duboys on
the issues of his industrial music saga, mostly with english
translations and photographies rights search. And in 2008, finally
create an
archive blog where I will gather information, links, articles, fanzines and archives, mostly concerning the old french industrial scene.