Yannick Franck was born in 1981 in Belgium. He is an electronic musician, a sound artist and a vocalist. He operates as a solo act (as Der Mord, Raum and the critically acclaimed left-field dub project MT Gemini). He is the vocalist of power electronics act Die Morde, that he formed with noise musician / sound artist Cédric Dambrain (Bambi OFS, Ensemble Ictus) in 2024. Over the years he has shared the stage with artists such as Front 242, Drew McDowall (Coil, Psychic TV), Moor Mother, Samuel Kerridge, Hypnoskull and many others.
He played in duos Orphan Swords, Figure Section and Y.E.R.M.O. and he is the head of Antibody label (featuring artists such as Tot Onyx, Shit & Shine, Front 242's Patrick Codenys, Yeun Elez and many more), which he founded in 2021.
He played in duos Orphan Swords, Figure Section and Y.E.R.M.O. and he is the head of Antibody label (featuring artists such as Tot Onyx, Shit & Shine, Front 242's Patrick Codenys, Yeun Elez and many more), which he founded in 2021.
For the past twenty years, he has explored territories such as electroacoustic music, noise, synthpop, industrial and body music.
His most notable solo works are:
-Hierophany, an abrasive sonic rendition of an introspective journey in the guts of Moscow. It was released in 2012 on now defunct russian label Monochrome Vision.
-Just Like A River (as MT Gemini), a pataphysical, unapologetically experimental revisitation of early Ska and Rocksteady. Released in 2019 on Sub Rosa, the album was defined as “remarkable” by Steve Barker in The Wire Magazine and figured in their yearly Dub music top 10.
-Conjurer (as Raum), which was released in 2021 on legendary Berlin dark techno label Aufnahme +Wiedergabe.
-Montsalvatsche (as Raum). Released in 2022 on Antibody, it explores several themes from the arthurian cycle. He considers it to be his most singular work to date.
Having studied visual arts and worked frequently as a composer at the service of other disciplines (film, performance, theatre and contemporary dance). He has given numerous seminars, masterclasses and workshops on sound and its relationship with visual arts, performing arts and film.
Notably at ESRA (École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) where he regularly intervenes. He created a live soundtrack for Benjamin Christensen's film Häxan, witchcraft through the ages (1922) at the Cinémathèque du Luxembourg and has created a ritualistic audiovisual performance called The Rising, with his long term collaborator Gast Bouschet. More recently, he's compsed the original score for Jerome Vandewattyne's sci-fi film "The Belgian Wave".
He previously ran Idiosyncratics label, which was dedicated to sonic and musical research.
