Art Zoyd
Encyclopedia
Art Zoyd is a French
band formed in 1968, mixing free jazz
, progressive rock
and avant-garde
electronica
.
Like other members of the Rock in Opposition
movement, Art Zoyd fuses progressive rock and jazz with contemporary classical music
. Like fellow RIO member Univers Zéro
, they are also influenced by French Zeuhl
bands such as Magma
. Today, Art Zoyd is best described as an electronic music group, and works primarily for film
and ballet
.
Gérard Hourbette assures the artistic direction while working occasionally with other composers/performers : Kasper T. Toeplitz
, Carl Faia
, André Serre-Milan, etc.
Art Zoyd is also a studio, based in Valenciennes
, for the research, development and creation of new works by invited composers, as well as a number of pedagogical activities most notably, from 2005, a unique approach for teaching electro-acoustic composition led by Carl Faia and André Serre-Milan.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
band formed in 1968, mixing free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
, progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
and avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
.
Like other members of the Rock in Opposition
Rock in Opposition
Rock in Opposition or RIO was a movement representing a collective of progressive bands in the late 1970s united in their opposition to the music industry that refused to recognise their music...
movement, Art Zoyd fuses progressive rock and jazz with contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
. Like fellow RIO member Univers Zéro
Univers Zéro
Univers Zero are an instrumental Belgian band known for playing dark music heavily influenced by 20th century chamber music. The group's name has had three variant spellings, the others being Univers Zéro and Univers-Zero....
, they are also influenced by French Zeuhl
Zeuhl
Zeuhl means celestial in Kobaïan, the constructed language created by Christian Vander. Originally solely applied to the music of Vander's band, Magma, the term zeuhl was eventually used to describe the similar music produced by French bands, beginning in the mid-1970s...
bands such as Magma
Magma (band)
Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...
. Today, Art Zoyd is best described as an electronic music group, and works primarily for film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
.
Gérard Hourbette assures the artistic direction while working occasionally with other composers/performers : Kasper T. Toeplitz
Kasper T. Toeplitz
Kasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of polish origin, born in 1960. He lives in Paris.- Biography :He has worked with academic research organizations, such as GMEM, GRM, IRCAM, and Radio-France, as well as with experimental musicians, such as Éliane Radigue, Zbigniew Karkowski,...
, Carl Faia
Carl Faia
Carl Faia is an American composer and live electronics designer and performer.Faia studied composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Florida State University and the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark on a Fulbright grant...
, André Serre-Milan, etc.
Art Zoyd is also a studio, based in Valenciennes
Valenciennes
Valenciennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region had seen a steady decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded...
, for the research, development and creation of new works by invited composers, as well as a number of pedagogical activities most notably, from 2005, a unique approach for teaching electro-acoustic composition led by Carl Faia and André Serre-Milan.
Selected discography
- Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (1976)
- Musique pour l'odyssée (1979)
- Génération sans futur (1980)
- Phase IV (1982)
- Les Espaces Inquiets (1983)
- Le Mariage du ciel et de l'enfer (1985, for a ballet by Roland PetitRoland PetitRoland Petit was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble, near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.-Biography:...
) - Berlin (1987)
- Nosferatu (1988, for the film by F. W. Murnau)
- Marathonnerre I (1993)
- Marathonnerre II (1993)
- Faust (1995, for the filmFaust (1926 film)Faust is a silent film produced in 1926 by UFA, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt...
by F. W. Murnau) - Häxan (1997)
- u.B.I.Q.U.e. (2000) (Latin for "everywhere")
- Experiences de vol (2000)
- Metropolis (2002, for the filmMetropolis (film)Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
by Fritz LangFritz LangFriedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
) - le champ des larmes (2006)
- La chute de la Maison usher (end 2007)
- AZO-Hourbette-Toeplitz-Branca (end 2007)
- Eyecatcher (2011)