Performer, vocalist, electronic musician and curator of independent label Idiosyncratics, Yannick Franck has developed an increasingly personal style that combines sharp acoustic research and abrasive walls of sound. Often described as trance-inducing, his music is based on the treatment of sources such as instruments and non-musical objects, voice, radio signals and field recordings. It ranges from fundamental acoustic explorations (The Staircase Continuum) to more stylistic-expressionistic searches (Memorabilia); two fields of investigation that tend to collide in his latest works such as Hierophany (recently released on Russian label Monochrome Vision) and The Utmost Night (to be released on Taâlem recordings). In addition to his recordings and performances, Yannick Franck creates site-specific sound installations.
Franck is part of electroacoustic-noise improvisation project Y.E.R.M.O., with guitar player Xavier Dubois and drummer Jason Van Gulick. They have collaborated with artists Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert on a number of projects. They created soundtracks for the artists' political installation Collision Zone, held at the Pavilion of Luxembourg, Venice Biennial 2009. Additional collaborations include their intense audiovisual performances, Things to Come, Collision Zone, and Toward The Event Horizon."
In the past, Yannick Franck has collaborated with Pietro Riparbelli / K11, Craig Hilton (Gauchiste, Loincloth), Phil Maggi, Alan Trench (World Serpent, Temple Music, Orchis) and Esther Venrooy among others and his music has been released on several labels including Silken Tofu, Young Girls Records, Sylvain Chauveau's concept record house Onement and Italian label Silentes.
Franck and Riparbelli, with the precious help of Alan Trench (ex World Serpent, Temple Music) are currently working on a new conceptual album based on recordings made at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Sicily.
He has performed in venues and festivals such as Issue Project Room (New York, USA), MUDAM (Luxembourg, LU), Philharmonie du Luxembourg (Luxembourg, LU), Young Arts Biennial (Moscow, RU), European Performance Art Festival (Warsaw, PL), Instants Chavirés (Paris, FR), Ausland (Berlin, DE), Electronic Church (Berlin, DE), Bozar Electronic Arts Festival (Brussels, BE), Ateliers Claus (Brussels, BE), interactive Media Art Laboratory (Brussels, BE) among many others.
He has worked as an independent composer for the National Theater of the French Community in Brussels (TNB) and companies such as Artara / Fabrice Murgia (for which he composed the soundtracks of critically acclaimed performances LIFE:RESET / Chronique d'une ville épuisée and Exils).
He has composed several commissioned soundtracks for videos, installations and performances.
Yannick Franck sporadically publishes interviews with artists and musicians in Belgian contemporary art newspaper Flux News.
