tokoloten has been fighting against
heavy metal contamination in the seaweeds of (unknown) swiss lagoons
for years. This explains the 3-o name (mispelled though). This might
sound strange (literally it is) but it ended up in some
musical inspiration... brackish music? Just listen...
tiny or huge noise, weird atmospheres, overdriven beats.
Unable to play guitar like Frank Zappa (that is pretty normal
actually), tokoloten uses a variety of objects such as magnet motors, infrared
devices, game controllers... in order to hide this lack of technic.
tokoloten lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.
tokoloten's blog
tokoloten on MySpace
tokoloten on Virb
[ français ]
L’objet musical tokoloten est né de l’esprit d’un musicien apatride influencé par le free-jazz jusqu’au-bruitiste d’un Otomo, l’humour grinçant d’un Zappa, les syncopes saturées d’un Aaron Funk… Comprenant rapidement qu’il serait vain de tenter d’approcher leur génie, tokoloten ne se prive cependant pas d’explorer le matériau sonore à travers l’essorage viril de programmes informatiques, le maniement sans précaution d’objets divers (moteurs électriques, hydrophones, contrôleurs de jeux vidéos…) et une petite pointe d’auto-dérision. tokoloten envisage chaque performance live comme une pièce unique, aidé en cela par les accidents qui la parsèment continuellement.
News
- 25-02-2008: tokoloten vs feldermelder @ fri-son on 25-03-2008
- 05-06-2007: tokoloten will play live on 09-06 at Fréquence Banane (FM 92.4), the radio of the University of Lausanne. Concerts will start at 22:00.
- 11-04-2007: 2 new dates in the pipe: 19-05 at Le Bourg, 28-06 at Les Digitales.
- 10-03-2007: tokoloten has started his blog: http://blog.furibond.com. You'll find fresh news there.
Sound
Download
live @ frison, Fribourg (part 2) 19:25 / mp3 / 26.7MB
live @ Les Digitales, Lausanne 26:24 / mp3 / 36.3MB
live @ Le Bourg, Lausanne 26:18 / mp3 / 36.2MB
Cross the Line (live @ Le Bourg ending) 7:15 / mp3 / 10.0MB
live @ Sinus-Series Festival, Basel 20:01 / mp3 / 27.6MB
Jacky's Kicking (live @ Sinus-Series ending) 5:46 / mp3 / 7.9MB
1 Minute 23 Secondes de Tendances Orageuses 1:23 / mp3 / 1.9MB
Centrifuge 7:43 / mp3 / 10.6MB
Harsh Improvisation 4:06 / mp3 / 5.6MB
No Body Controlled the House 5:36 / mp3 / 7.6MB
Buée 7:25 / mp3 / 10.2MB
I'm not Fennesz 1:51 / mp3 / 2.6MB
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Dates
19-04-2008 Appendice Radio Show, Lausanne [flyer]
25-03-2008 K.O.ROKE presents tokoloten vs feldermelder, Fri-son, Fribourg
28-06-2007 Festival Les Digitales, Parc Mon Repos, Lausanne [flyer]
09-06-2007 Fréquence Banane (FM 92.4), University of Lausanne [flyer]
19-05-2007 Les Chaises Musicales, Le Bourg, Lausanne [flyer]
06-10-2006 Sinus-Series Festival (Headphone Concert), Theater Basel, Basel [flyer]
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You might want to contact tokoloten. See below.
How contacting this tokoloten
Just drop an email to tokoloten(at)furibond.com
Videos
Live @ Le Bourg - noisy(?) ambient part -
Live @ Le Bourg - electronica/abstract hip-hop part -
Visuals
tokoloten is currently working on visuals that would be projected while he's playing on stage. He hates stroboscopic VJing, so he's trying to make something that slowly draws abstract textures, reacting to the sound though. He uses Processing.
Below are the first results. Don't look at the quality, it has been compressed quite a lot for the upload on YouTube.
tokoloten has developed A Painting Machine, a simple tool for making abstract painting online. Have fun!
Some pictures
More pictures on flickr.
