myster shadow-sky - pomoc do groba
biophonic historical reference points :

|• 1961 _ Born in Paris the January 26 from a French mother of Greek origin and a Polish father of German origin.
|• 1967 _ jazz guitar studies.
|• 1968 _ classical music studies: piano then,
|• 1969 _ admitted in music school: classical guitar.
|• 1973 _ Electric guitar player with several rock'n roll bands in the suburb of Paris.
|• 1977 _ Leaves to Poland. Student at the Warsaw National Music Academy with: Pr. Kotonski, Wiszniewski, in composition and electronic music.
|• 1979 _ Back to Paris, to be student at the University of Paris VIII, Paris VI Jussieu, Paris I Sorbone and at Ircam with: Giuseppe Englert, Costin Miereanu, Gilles Deleuze, Daniel Charles, Ivanka Stoïanova, Emile Leipp, Iannis Xénakis and Pierre Boulez, etc. Get his Master degree in 1987 with Daniel Charles and his PhD in 1991 with Iannis Xénakis.
|• 1979 _ Copy-art creation and exhibition in several art galleries and in the street of Paris. Collaboration with the artist Henri Schurder: exhibition-happening until 1984 under the pseudonym: Sado.
|• 1979 _ First orchestral composition with "Cauchemar Atomique" for electric guitar orchestra.
|• 1980 _ Starts the trans-cription of a clay tablet discovered in Indus Valley dated back to 3000 years BC, in today musical pictogram.
|• 1980 _ Creation and recording of "Ludus Musicae Delirium" the first music test of anglepoise lamp as musical instrument: the archisonic lamp.
|• 1981 _ Starts research and releasing experimental instruments : Archisonic lamp , PvcSax, ArcoGuitarCouchée, device of real time electronic treatments of acoustic instrument and trajectories of sound in 3D space.
|• 1982 _ First enormous compositions in time and space: huge architectural volumes, infinite duration - "Les Ephémérôdes Cardent les Chrônes", "Rion Riorim", "Tension".
|• 1982 _ First inflatable sonic architecture released: "Ourdission", music for 3 flutes spatialized in 3D spiral trajectories inside the soft building.
|• 1983 _ Composition (with special appropriate notation for complex sound spectrum), recording, and performing at Ircam and all over the Europe of "It is impossible to give a title to this phenomenon because the unknown beyond the extreme edges of space and time has no name" music for wood bowed classical guitar: the ArcoGuitarCouchee.
|• 1984 _ free-jazz tour through Europe as trombone, arcoguitarcouchee, and electric guitar player.
|• 1985 _ Founds in Poland the music ensemble "Ono Lulu filharmonia" with Michal Zduniak (drum) and Tadeusz Sudnik (synthi AKS).
|• 1985 _ Jean Weinfeld (1903-1991), Bauhaus student and creator of FONICS (New Forms for Strings Instruments), ask him to create original music for his strings sculptures. Mathius Shadow-Sky creates the concept album "Dïngx" with 3 Bauhaus instruments.
|• 1986 _ Creates and records the album "Je Suis d'Ailleurs" with the Ono Lulu Filharmonia in Poland.
|• 1986 _ Records the compositions for tourist musical instruments "6sssssseX+2eX" album.
|• 1987 _ Founds officially his independent recording studio "le centre de la bombe"(the centre of the bomb) in Paris already in activity since 1980.
|• 1987 _ writes and records "Les Explorations de Paroles Saint Ethiques" for his untempered 9-ton-electric-guitar he made during his tour in eastern Europe in 1984.
|• 1988 _ creates and records "La Commedia del Suono" with Ono Lulu filharmonia in Poland with Olga Swajgier soprano coloratura, Michal Zduniak percussion, Tadeusz Sudnik synthesizer, Marcin Krzyzanowski cello, piano, and myster shadow-sky composition direction and all other instruments.
|• 1989 _ Founds the "Trio Fonic" in Paris with twelve second generation Bauhaus cubic instruments conceived by Jean Weinfeld.
|• 1990 _ records in Paris with the Trio Fonic his and Pierre Bastien compositions in the "Bauhaus Neofonic" album.
|• 1990 _ creation at Bourges of "SpectàCul à l'air, hein!", the Quasi Opera with Ono Lulu filharmonia and 2 giant puppets musical instrument: Ono, the huge drum, and Lulu, the huge bell.
|• 1991 _ leaves Paris for the Pyrenees to found his big recording studio of the Centre de la Bombe.
|• 1992 _ composes and records "4 Taboo Song" with the Polish pop singer Karioka.
|• 1993 _ starts the writing of "La Farsa Del Sonido", music for 7 keyboards and big orchestra.
|• 1993 _ composes and records "Opera [tion] Della Bocca" tribute to Dimitrio Stratos, solo a capella vocal pieces.
|• 1994 _ finishes "Strange Night with Myster Shadow Sky" electrorhythme music.
|• 1995 _ founds "2 Lamplayers 5000 Years After", to give the first musical full version, of the Indus Valley clay tablet: the Genoscopic Kalandar. Record the music "5000 Years After, Music from the Genoscopic Kalandar".
|• 1995 _ composes and records "Mangé" eaten eat for his voice and real time digital device.
|• 1996 _ Creates the music series "XX CENTURY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS RE:COMPOSED PROJECT" for Le Disque du Centre Bombe records label (the disc in the center of the bomb).
|• 1996 _ Creates and conducts the big symphonic orchestra, the Trans-Cultural Syn-Phônê Orchestra and record the "Syn-Phônê NO1 : le Boxon Ensemble".
|• 1996 _ records the composition "6 Milliards de Voix Sans Air" for handled voices.
|• 1996 _ leaves France to the United States.
|• 1997 _ performs and records "aLive In New Europe AD" with 2 Lamplayers 5000 Years After.
|• 1997 _ founds the hardcore band S.P.O.R.T. the Specialists of Problems Obscene Racist & Taboo. He records and composes "To Be Definitively Done with Religion", starting the concept of "To Be Definitively Done with..."
|• 1997 _ composes, performs and records the "Syn-Phônê NO2 : the beautiful chaos" with the Trans-Cultural Syn-Phônê Orchestra of Forgues.
|• 1997 _ resident in the United States: Miami two years then Appalachians mountains.
|• 1998 _ in Miami, he composes and records "Knots System in Miami" with Ronald David Laing book: Knots. He experienced with 30 meters inflatable muff-tube, gigantic puppet articulated limbs, handled by propelled air, shaping an inflatable cabin above the audience.
|• 1998 _ he organizes at the University of Houston, during his master class of collective composition, the "Collective Composition Music Makers Artchestrâ" with his students to give a multimedia show in a warehouse of downtown Houston.
|• 1998 _ birth of the center of the bomb web site with most of myster shadow-sky's works, projects, music, score, etc., webart creation: 1, 2, 3, 4, pictorial works: 1, 2, and theoretical poetical texts.
|• 1999 _ american custom refuses him to go back to his family in the United States, after giving a lecture at the University in Quebec A Montreal entitled "multimedia or multimania? The collective imaginative reality".
|• 1999 _ works in Montreal on different projects of inflatable sonic buildings, among which "la forêt gonflable chantante the singing inflatable forest" on a lake of one square kilometer.
|• 1999 _ leaves to Brazil to live in Rio de Janeiro
|• 2000 _ composes and records in Rio de Janeiro the album "Tha Raw Voice of Cooked Exile".
|• 2000 _ in Rio de Janeiro he writes: "3 Ephémérôdes Partis du Milieu de la Bombe" for 3 spatialized grand pianos surrounding the audience.
|• 2000 _ in Rio de Janeiro he writes: "Situations Innommables, Situation Innommable dans la Langue, où le Goût Etrange-r à la Parole Incompréhensible" for 12 spatialized strings among the audience.
|• 2000 _ finishing his electrorhythme music album: "Oh, a Shadow In The Sky!".
|• 2000 _ creation of Ourdission generation 2 in Montreal, a giant musical instrument soft and interactive building: the bionic refuge harp.
|• 2001 _ back to Paris to find governmental financing to create Ourdission generation 2 in Montreal, and the Trans-Cultural Syn-phônê Orchestras over the World: One year of work: no financial help for shadow-sky art in France.
|• 2002 _ stays in Paris to work his robotic opera "No Things, l'Encyclopédie des Dauphins", for 8 mechanical robots with 87 artificial voices, 2 alive dolphins, 1 chimpanzee with no hair and a character of light, based on the comic book: Fragmentos de la Enciclopedia Delphica by Miguelanxo Prado.
|• 2002 _ composes and records "23 musical miniatures for the television"
|• 2002 _ November, composition and performance of "Jeux & Interdits" for his 9-ton-electric-guitar, voice and orchestra of clones in space trajectories. Paris Torcy.
|• 2003 _ January, 2 Lamplayers 5000 Years After back on stage: Lille CRIME festival.
|• 2003 _ the first CD of the collective work "Karlheinz Stockhausen Re:composed by Artists in the center of the Bomb" is done. But the French SACEM forbid to release the CD.
|• 2003 _ composition and recording of The Lamplayer & the Machines : "Time has no Age" a virtual orchestra of 164 archisonic lamps.
|• 2003 _ first recording of the second album of S.P.O.R.T. "To Be Definitively Done with Democracy"
|• 2004 _ January, comeback to Toulouse to form the symphonic orchestra: the Trans-Cultural Syn-phône Orchestra de Toulouse to create the syn-phônê NO3 "Nos Traces de Vies à Titre Provisoire = Our Temporarily Life Sign".
|• 2004 _ continuation of the music work with S.P.O.R.T. "To Be Definitively Done with Democracy"
|• 2004 _ September, sonic installation "the fishwomen dream = le rêve des femmes-poisson" music by mask effect of water sound is imperceptible. This for the artist Dorota Sadowski pool installation.
|• 2004 _ first album from the "boring spaces: mu-sic pour espaces ennuyeux" concept "waiting music for boring rooms" started in 1994 with the new computer tools for sound.
|• 2004 _ constitution of the Shadow-Sky-Ensemble with 19 musicians, artists and technicians: an orchestra first to create the opera bouffa "La Farsa Humana"
|• 2004 _ first vocal test for TEST-aimant and vocal dance performance in the concrete cistern of 15 meter high to 9 meter large.
|• 2004 _ release of the book: « Les Chercheurs de Sons » ed. Alternatives, with the Lamplayer Myster Shadow-Sky and his Archisonic Lamp.
|• 2005 _ January, start writing the opera « La Farsa Humana » libretto and score overture. Creation of the Shadow-Sky-Ensemble for this opera with 19 musicians.
|• 2005 _ March, all his albums from 1979 to 2005 are in free download on the Internet in mp3 format (including CD cover) at http://acarien.nokods.org/creations/musiques/Myster shadow-sky (OML non commercial)
|• 2005 _ TEST-aimant multimedia electronic opera start writing for: solo voice, cloned voice choir, two virtual voices, and one artificial voice in concrete cistern of 15 meter high to 9 meter large as private stage: the matrix (with no audience) and broadcast far away elsewhere in the 3D Visio-Sonic Cube (with the audience inside) on six video screens with moving sounds ballet.
|• 2005 _ in June, last recording of S.P.O.R.T. album "To Be Definitively Done with Democracy" (four pieces only on twenty one).
|• 2005 _ May, June, July, and September, performances of the Lamplayer & the Machines new creation: "Inside of my Aliveness" ("à l'intérieur de mon vivant").
|• 2005 _ every month from September, creation of the sonic saga « les lézards étranges des univers improbables = Strange Lizards from Improbable Universes » by different configuration of the Shadow-Sky-Ensemble with musicians of the Trans-Cultural Syn-phônê Orchestra of Toulouse.
|• 2005 _ December, uncreation of the syn-phônê NO3 "Nos Traces de Vies à Titre Provisoire = Our Temporarily Life Sign" with the Trans-Cultural Syn-phônê Orchestra of Toulouse at the Halle aux Grains of Toulouse (the one place for symphonic concert in Toulouse which belong to the town council), canceled by the Toulouse city Mayor decision.
|• 2006 _ in January duo with Aloof Proof (electronic guitar) and Myster Shadow-Sky (cello cubic from Bauhaus) « Alive in Unbelievable Universes ».
|• 2006 _ the last episode of « les lézards étranges des univers improbables » with the fifth Shadow-Sky-Ensemble, an anti-orchestra because of local censorship.
|• 2006 _ May and June, creation of le Film Rouge = the Red Movie with Die Schneise Vorgangfall les Entreprises Glorifiées by the Martians, composed by Macrocoma (electronics), Donus (drum), and Myster Shadow-Sky (archisonic lamp, voice, movie editor): live performance with three video screening: le Film Rouge = the Red Movie.
|• 2006 _ October, Berlin: performances of the Lamplayer & the Machines: "Inside of my Aliveness" redone.
|• 2006 _ October, Berlin: the Berliner Trans-kulturell Syn-phônê Orchester started to be constitute in October 2009.
|• 2007 _ May, June, Jully, he composes the music for theatre for the play calls: "Les Diseurs" (The Sayers) by the Maylis Bouffartigue's Monsieur Madame company.
|• 2007 _ June, creation of HELP inTension de secours a concerto for 4 orchestras, 2 trumpets, and video-wall. The music is published on video DVD.
|• 2007 _ October, starts writing his book “Dans le Ciel le Bruit de l’Ombre” (in the Sky the Noise of the Shadow) a new musical theory for XXI century futur music.
|• 2007 _ November, duet with the grindcore drummer Nicoblast to give drums' n guitar explosive music : "le centrebombe 5."
|• 2007 _ December, Founds an 18 musicians orchestra called l’Extrême Sonique Sans Concession Réuni to create in 20 days a multimedia erotic opera untitled: “la Musique, l’Extrême de l’Extase” based on Georges Bataille's erotic texts.

 

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