Who are you ?
From a point of
view, i’m a married man of 52, proud father of my daughter. From
another point, I’m what can be considered as an artist. But! My aim
is to share my art with other, I do not live in an ivory tower far
from reality, even reality was normal to some, but not for I,Eternal.
My love of discovering artists, as musicians, poets, plasticians is
my driving force. If I can find something I haven’t found yet
each day is self accomplishment. Plus as some qualified me as ever
enthousiast, I need to share my finds. The share of cultures (
films I saw, tapes records I got, places I went, museums I visited,
and so on) are important to me. If it can interest one person, I won
the game. I don’t play games, it’s a waste of time to me. I don’t
do sports, I don’t want to die earlier than the Moirai decide to
cut my string of life. And it’s waste of my energy and time for
creation. My endorphin addiction don’t need this. I find pleasure
in contemplation. Meditation fulfill the holes in my life.
How did you got
there?
As many I sung the
lyrics on the covers of records, looked like an idiot doing air
guitar in front of mirrors. I tried to be a drummer, but I was lazy
and a good drum kit costs a fortune I couldn’t afford. My money
was spent in magazines, books, comics, records, tapes and videos…So
now I gor a small collection of vinyls nearly 2000, tapes about 100,
some died long ago…, books I can’t tell there are in each room of
my house….the DVDs are nearly 1000…A reason my wife hates me, you
can laugh. I joined bands as a singer by accident, I quit the drumkit
of a punk band to face the mic for the firs time in 1985, we made a
grind core band “Lily Of The Valley” . I joined The Clever Boys,
until 1986 Raw’K’Roll with Hard Core influences, I also were into
a fun punk core band “Les Shark’s” local fame. After my
military period ruining my health and time I made another band Space
Jerks until ’89. After this band, I made CIANID a demo still exists
thanks to my cousin in the band! I joined a band called Punishment
Park heavily in dark industrial psychedelic sounds. An album got out
20 years after it’s recording due to the band’s explosion due to
some asshole leaving the band for soup and fame. I stayed I the dark
and created I,Eternal. In 96. I joined other bands after that. And
decided to end live action in 2011 after Re_Org ( Industrial Goth
Metal). I never had stagefright , I don’t care if there’s 1 or
2500 people in front of me, if I had to play, I did the part of the
contract : giving all possible for a great show. I got there but my
past has little or no interest for me. What is important is to come
and discover.
Expression or
Impression??!!
As words are limited
I express myself with sounds. The sonic prism has less limits of good
, evil, all those anthropocentrism concepts given to music. Some
likes good music, I feel it’s strange. Some never liked what I
heard saying it’s noise 10% of the time, shit the rest%...Lack of
understanding, knowledge, fuck them you make your choice. Explaining
2000 years of music history to untolerant people is a waste of my
time. I don’t do it anymore. I prefer to be perceived as an asshole
by many. I never understood people listening constantly to the same
bands year after without discovering some in the same veins. I lost
fortunes covering full ranges of styles and time of course. This
driving me away from unknown formations. I remember at a
Soundcheck for a I,Eternal show in 2012 a Contemporary Art ,
someone from the Tri Athlete Federation told me my music was giving
her vomiting envy. A compliment of worthy value. I told her she
can go and do it and die far from me. I know how endorphin junkies
are desperate without their daily dose… I let them alone.
Sport is really a
problem in my life, there you can laugh a little more than before...
While I create my stuff for me or especially for someone else is
peace on Earth made possible. Sharing our cultures is the only way to
make peace not a hippy dream. Some sounds arrive home with their
no words to say but try me… I do things with passion. It is very
important to me. That’s why I understand people with other passions
than mine, I respect theirs. Enough said for others, let them make
their way. I have no ambition but Peace on Earth. At a cosmic scale
it’s less than shit. When making collaborations songs, I do songs,
I’m a singer, I use my voice as first sound to filter, transform ,
into something else ( Rules of Musique Concrète Read Schaeffer !), I
try to make the piece sounding like a classic pop tune. Not that
easy, micro details are important, transitions have a power of story
telling driving force. It can also be made with a punk fuck it
attitude sometimes, when all is possible so why staying in musical
jail form? I know how to sing in many styles ( a good breath exercise
and from grind to falsetto) , I can place melodies easily. But it
has no more surprising me aspects. Noise is really more infinite.
Even I prefer the term sound. Too bad we can’t explore the
ultrasonic universe.
My play ground is
this planet, my time in this dimension is short so I don’t waste
it. I nearly died many times due to health problems, lifestyle and
allergies, don’t feel sorry for me, feel sorry for the poor who
can’t eat or go to school, for the women still enduring violences
, for the LGBT people facing aggressions. I’d love to have the
impression that racism ended centuries ago, that women got the
respect they deserve. Sure I’ll experience this in another kharma.
I’m no mystical person nor religious, it’s too much separating
people from each other and war generator. Check history…But enough
talking about me. Let the wheel turn. IMPRESS ME WITH YOUR
EXPRESSION.
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