Marco Luparia - drums, percussion, objets, live electronics
Fanny Meteier - tuba, feedback
Andrea Giordano - voice, effects, OP-1, melodica, feedback, flute
Pierre Pradier - acoustic and electric guitar, effects
Supported by Festival Météo, Collectif Amygdala and QUOIS
Finalist at Jazzmigration#10
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FRANTX is a glit noise band based in Paris, bringing together two young improvisers of French origin (Fanny Meteier, Pierre Pradier) and two of Italian origin (Andrea Silvia Giordano, Marco Luparia).
The four members of FRANTX explore the limits of their instruments through extended techniques, heterodox amplification systems and electronic extensions; always in search of new modes of interaction, construction and mutual destruction. Animated by the noise-punk ghost of the ‘90s, the quartet juxtaposes improvisation, songs and electric soundtracks in a hyperactive, carnivalesque Dadaist collage. FRANTX was born to question our roles as improvising musicians and target the political dimension in which we are supposed to exist as performers and composers in the contemporary music field. Music for weird legged dancers, but also to explore new ways of listening, ambiguous flickering and never on hold.
FRANTX is preparing its debut album through several residencies in 2024, with publication planned for summer 2025.
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BIO
Andrea Giordano is an Italian musician based in Oslo and Paris. As composer, improviser and singer, she develops her language through Piedmontese and harmonic juxtapositions. In 2024, she will release two albums with Piedmontese lyrics with her large ensemble Àlea and the trio Radis, as well as a solo album produced during her residency at the Elektron-musikstudion EMS (Stockholm). She currently works with artists such as Pierre Bastien, Ingar Zach, Alessandra Rombolà, Pat Thomas and Kalle Moberg. In September 2020, she completed the Bachelor's programme with 110/110 cum laude at the Siena Conservatoire with a research on clusters and the analysis of twentieth-century music.
Pierre Pradier is a guitarist, performer, improviser and composer. After studying science at René Descartes University, he devoted himself entirely to the study of music at the CNSMDP. He studied classical guitar, generative improvisation and new technologies applied to composition. His musical personality, particularly inspired by contemporary repertoires, free jazz and experimental rock, is expressed in the fields of musical creation, artistic performance and theatre. Pierre took part in the inaugural concert of the Philharmonie des enfants with Caroline Delume, and premiered the first act of Philippe Leroux's L'Annonce faite à Marie with Ensemble Cairn. He is a member of the Timelapse guitar quartet and collaborates actively with composer Manuel Hidalgo Navas and sculptor Thomas Lefèvre.
Fanny Meteier is a tuba player with a strong musical personality, her insatiable curiosity has led her to explore new repertoires alongside her classical training: already involved in contemporary creation and research into the timbre of her instrument, notably with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the LIKEN ensemble and the Ensemble 0, she plays across aesthetic boundaries and directs part of her work towards jazz and improvised music (Orchestre National de Jazz, Collectif 2035, Red Star Orchestra, Futura Experience Project), performing at various festivals and national venues. She also performed in Alice Laloy's Death Breath Orchestra, a musical theatre show premiered in 2021 at the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, and in Volmir Cordeiro's play ABRI, in which she played a multi-disciplinary role, combining the bassophone and contemporary dance.
Marco Luparia is a piedmontese composer, media artist and percussionist developing an idiom embracing electro-acoustic possibilities and a variety of ancient music traditions. Their present output can take very different shapes, from large ensemble compositions, to sound installations and improvised solo performances. In parallel to their main studies at the Paris National Conservatoire, Marco have explored contemporary percussion repertoire, carnatic music, diy instruments building, gamelan and live electronics.
All these fields of interest merge into Marco's personal artistic research, which focuses on the intersections between non-idiomatic improvisation and contemporary composition,
transdisciplinary art and multimedia possibilities, non-western ceremonial traditions and queer theories. Notably perform with masnä, Fade In, Anaphora and in many other bands as a sideman.
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PRESS
‘In particular Marco Luparia, [...] we know that this young man is passionate about the relationship between percussion and electronics in his striking solos where the surface is of prime importance’.
F. Barriaux - Citizen Jazz
‘You can't help but be dazzled by Fanny Meteier's baby yellow jumpsuit and the glitter on her cheeks as she lights up the stage from centre stage.’ M. Jouan - Citizen Jazz
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CONTACTS
collectifamygdala@gmail.com
+33 754162614