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There’s no such thing as a self-made man

Passing through 2026
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October
- Oct 16 : Solo Set for L’Escalier d’Eurydice @ La Colle de Nouvé
Summer
- TBD : Mue SouthEast minitour
May
- May 20 : Duo Set with Cédric Lerrible (poetry + music) for Tentatives Animales @ La Colle de Nouvé
Spring
- TBD : Agents incomplets outdoor installation, Isère
February
- Feb 18 : Serpent Nu @ Atelier 72, Mars. – festival Bouillon sonore
- Feb 12 : BodySound 11 with Serpent Nu @ Gmem Studio – festival Bouillon sonore
- Feb 8, 8pm : Broadcast on L’Art de l’écoute – Radio Grenouille 88.8 – with Nathalie Ong, Agnès Zenino, Peter Hart
- Feb 2nd : Cosmic Quintet with Sami Maison, Jean-Michelle Tarre, Mauricio Amarante, Jacques Sorentini @ La Société Étrange, Mars.
January
- Jan 31 : Mue @ Lecture par Nature, Pôle culturel J.C. Izzo – Mediathèque, Chateauneuf-les-Martiques

Idiotic Rotative Objects #2

23.06.28

Artefacts, Digital, Installation, Sound

Series of simple mechanisms with motors. See Here for 2017 Series Presented @ la Fabulerie, Marseille on June 28, 2023
La nuit excite

23.06.13

Compositions, Writings

Song made with generative Lyrics from the Semes Flipper program 12.44 (another song album) by Nora Neko Lyrics (French) Amer,le monde opèredans la merde. Les rats poussent comme des cons,Les chats désespérés ne sont pas toujours des chats…Tout le monde excite tout le monde,Les banalités font chier dans ta tête. Le cheval embrasse le nous…
Une séparation

23.06.12

Compositions, Video, Writings

Music video… As the song is a list of all the ways to feel torn apart, I was searching for a simple animation to make, and then I watched this perfectly timed scene in my own street… HQ Music on bandcamp : 12.44 (another song album) by Nora Neko Lyrics Un craquementUn déboitementUn découplageUne dérivation…
Frustration Mantra

23.06.11

Compositions, Writings

Song based on repetitive lines that I sometimes use with myslef to get more patient towards life disappointments or delayed expectations. 12.44 (another song album) by Nora Neko Lyrics (French) La satisfaction c’est la mort,La frustration c’est la vie. La plénitude c’est la mort,La frustration c’est la vie.La fusion c’est la mort.La frustration c’est la…
2 nights in Berlin

23.06.01

Lives, Mireille, News

Lives with Marie Takahashi
Bleu Plomb (Lead Blue)

23.05.24

Impro sessions

Impro Session (on Monotron + Taishigoto + Looper) with Mathias Richard (Voice + Harmonica), Phabrice Petitdemange (Harp), Pippo Crumb (Electric Guitar) Bleu Plomb by Nora Neko, Mathias Richard, Phabrice Petitdemange… Recorded @ Zoun Hotel Record, Marseille, May 2023
Reverse Engineering @ Supersonique

23.05.12

Compositions, News

The Field recording piece Reverse Engineering, composed in 2023 has been selected for the Supersonique Festival on Sept 2nd, 2023 in Marseille. Reverse Engineering is a patchwork of transportation sounds : Boat, Bus plane engines… mixed with downpitched metal creaks. Reverse Engineering by Nora Neko More info about the festival : https://supersoniquefestival.wordpress.com/
« mireille » : Up Down Strange Charm

23.04.05

Impro sessions, Mireille

Recorded @ Zoun Hotel Record, Marseille Up Down Strange Charm by Mireille
Wall painting for Tsundoku Bookstore

23.02.10

Commissioned works, Design, Illustration

The Tsundoku Librarie is a large Manga Shop in Marseille. Large enough to host a reconstitution of a Tokyo street corner (and a dojo). The DSF Crew concieved a 2-step work (one side in 2022, the second in 2023) faithfully based on Mathieu Bablet‘s conceptual drawings. I had an end-wall to paint a few fast…
Neko Can @ Bova

23.01.29

Lives, News

Live Duo Set recorded at Bova, Istanbul – Take the Aid Train (organised by Şevket Akıncı for Istanbul stray cats support) Live Neko / Can @ Bova by Hilal Can, Nora Neko
Beyoğlu 23

23.01.27

Impro sessions

With Hilal Can, Vahdet Ertuğrul Boydak, Ezgi Suorun Recorded in Istanbul – Jan. 2023 Neko / Can / Boydak / Suorun – Beyoğlu 23 by Hilal Can, Nora Neko, Vahdet Ertuğrul Boydak, Ezgi Suorun
Katy Kan Website

23.01.24

Commissioned works, Design, Digital

Website design and developpement for the paintings of Mireille Camus URL : https://katykan.com (fr) & https://katykan.com?lang=en (en)
Photo 2022

22.12.26

Photo
I’d love to be that classy when I’m dead

22.11.26

Photo

La Deviation, Marseille : two dead chicken in a box
Mesh @ V2

22.11.09

Lives, News, Performance

Sound-haptic quatuor project with Oddinmotion, Anaïs Poulet, Tyfen Guilloux Played @ Cabaret Nucléaire- Videodrome 2 Marseille
Zone Négative : Revue 591

22.11.02

Performance, Photo, Writings, Zone Négative

Pictures and texts about performance art, incuding still shots of the Antichocs performance the Zone Négative performances are here PDF : https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=9762
Yoshida 9620 Pulsar Organ – Instruments-pensées

22.09.26

Design, Digital, Illustration

Illustrating on a poem from Tyfen Guilloux base on imaginary instruments and sound objects / processes Final page The Yoshida-9620 is a fictionnal 1979 Pulsar organ : it gathers all Verry Large Arrays datas (radio telescopes signals) to compose tones based on the real-time frequencies of 64 pulsars. Original 3D model
Mathias Richard – À travers tout – cover

22.07.26

Commissioned works, Design, Illustration, News

Cover drawing for Mathias Richard, Tinbad editions. The image is a meshed 3D composition of a list of objects mentioned by the author Read about the book : https://www.lacauselitteraire.fr/a-travers-tout-mathias-richard-par-didier-ayres (fr)
Shurayuki J-Mix

22.05.25

Sound

Mix dedidacted to Japanese music from 1900 to 2020
Zone Negative @ L’intermédiaire

22.03.09

Lives, Zone Négative
Zone Négative @ Soma #1

22.03.05

Artefacts, Installation, Lives, News, Performance, Photo, Video, Zone Négative

10 days and nights of residency in SOMA with Tyfen Guilloux Following stage pictures by Arina Sidorova, Muriel Bolle, MaxRiz, Anna Borrel Follow-Up exhibition 2023 Performances Ligne-corps In front of a real-time video (on Nightshot mode) alternating between two cameras, two individuals draw lines on their body, undressing to discover some new surfaces. The sound…
In compression

22.03.04

Compositions

Take a genius music piece, trash it with time compression, confusing electronic beats and approximative playing Mornings by Nora Neko cf : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_C_(Terry_Riley)
Prières 2.0

22.01.15

Artefacts, Design, Writings

When you search something in Google, the search bar suggests words following the fist you type. These cards are simple screenshots of these suggestions, based on what the most people typed after the words you entered. This short list reveals each time how much this search engine is actually used for very intimate, introspective requests,…
Semes Flipper

22.01.12

Digital, Writings

Jquery Random-generative program creating sentences based on a semes handwritten database. The semes are put together randomly, generating surrealistic sentences. Used for all the lyrics of La nuit excite in 2023 > Open (or download the single file code for re-use) Presented @ SOMA, March 2022 – Zone Negative Residence
Semes fader

22.01.09

Digital, Writings

Random-generative sentences (Jquery) Open (or download the single file code for re-use)
Semes builder

22.01.06

Digital, Writings

Video Installation : Jquery program building words an sentences from random letters. Presented @ SOMA 2022
Photo 2021

21.12.26

Photo
CIPM : lectures pour Caméras Animales

21.09.11

Lives, News, Performance, Writings

Invited by Mathias Richard for Cameras Animales, with Annabelle Verhaeghe, Antoine Boute, Tyfen Guilloux… hosted by the Centre International de Poésie de Marseille
Voogt Fleur de Dopamine

21.06.26

Artefacts, Commissioned works, Digital, Installation, Voogt

Interactive object for Voogt. The sculpture has 3 flowers with a specific scent and sound, triggered by any steady presence. The whole system (sonar sensor, arduinos, 5w speakers…) is powerd by sunlight and batteries. Exhibitions Concept by Phabrice Petitdemange & Madely Schott, metal works by Françis Rugirello, Olfactive design by Hélène Bellenger, electronics & programming…
Oyster

21.05.26

Photo

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