Between evidence and fiction
Images as environments
For visions to unfold
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+ void sublime research + creation
+ club late music collaborative and open-source label
+ video film, motion design & vfx
+ images graphic design, artworks & identity
club late music
open-source and collaborative music label
---Co-runner2018-ongoing
Club Late Music (CLM) is an open-source and collaborative music label. Born between Paris and London in 2015, it seeks to explore the ways of producing and promoting musical projects by gathering an enlarged community (GUN) driving all the projects and releases.
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Club Late Music attempts to represent an artistic movement stimulated by experimental club music, using photography, videos and new technologies as mediums of experimentation. The so-called URL culture and its capacity to bind musical and visual substrates and practices is constitutive of its artistic approach.
In April 2017, Club Late Music initiated the GUN project - as in Global URL Nation. Inspired by the free and open-source software approach, GUN gathers a diverse community of artists, designers and enthusiasts into an international network based on collaboration, the sharing of knowledge and of creative resources.
Combining the different musical influences and understandings of club music, GUN seeks to question the idea of collective intelligence in the production and diffusion of artistic contents by incorporating the style and ideas of each contributor.
Using various mediums, processes and formats inherited from contemporary cyberculture, it multiplies collaborative, decentralized experiments, from EPs and compilations to audiovisual projects, installations or live acts.
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releases
albums, EP, singles & compilations((°)) Soundcloud
((°)) Bandcamp
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merch
clothing & accessories
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events
live, club & performances((°)) Full list
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whitepapers
essays & documentation+ Whitepaper V1 (November 2018) [EN/FR]
Open source and collaborative music label: economies of creation, collective intelligence, new structures of music production and promotion
+ Whitepaper V2 (November 2022) [EN]
Ecologies of Collaboration & Collective Practice in Electronic Music
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ghostwares
narrative audiovisual mix series2021 - ongoing
Ghostwares is a narrative audiovisual mix series introducing virtual creatures, sentient beings, ancestral spirits or forgotten deities that inhabit and navigate through the network and other intricate layers of our technological ecosystem.
For each episode, two members of the Global URL Nation - a musician and a visual artist - pair together to produce a music video with an emphasis on storytelling.
From figurative representations to more abstract interpretations, the series then builds a sort of bestiary, where each episode introduces an entity, with its own sonic and visual characteristics, and its own personality. Over the years, it will seek to create a multidimensional environment, an imaginary landscape welcoming these mysterious creatures - an interface between their respective worlds, and ours.
+ Intro sequence
in collaboration with alpha_rats
+ E01 : P I T & Xenoangel
Asteroids Bring New Life Forms
+ X01 : Solstice & Erik Di Francesco
Natural Disappearance
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after the flash :: sd shards
narrative mix seriesvia LYL Radio
2023-2024
"Tales of a Fallen Guardian, whose celestial body shattered across our lands. Shards of metal tears, skin like stardust and shimmering flesh - an eternal recall told by the voice of its Fragments, whose whispers from the Void are said to make one whole"
After the Flash :: SD Shards is a collaborative and narrative mix series- each month, members of the Global URL Nation contributed to the development of its story, unveiling the mysteries of a cosmic artifact scattered around the globe.
° Organized with Maxius, El Murki, King Demitri, Solstice
° Mixes by TingTiin, aboutmyblank, Ziyiz, Sap As Tears, lux2000, Amselysen, Lag Switch, dragongirl, RougeHotel, Archidi, Disektor
° Covers by el murki, m4x1us, aboutmyblank, 1.5L, Cocln
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the great sleep
narrative mix series and novel
via Internet Public Radio
2019 - 2020
The Great Sleep is a series of 13 narrative audio mixes that was aired on Internet Public Radio from December 2019 to December 2020.
For each episode, a musician and a visual artist from the Global URL Nation collaborated to develop the story with audiovisual material - a 1h mix and a visual cover, which then served as a base for written text. Each episode marks a new chapter, meant to be heard, seen and read.
° Mixes by migu, Désiré, s1m0nc3ll0, Lukann, ASJ, VIBRISSE, Andres Komatsu, 71W3, Laced & LCL_Stream, Pacôme le Rouge, Mansa, Lithe, GRIG & pan:x
° Covers by chaggrin, medieval_cortex, lei, Moritz Tontsch, ththn, alpha_rats, AKUA, Andres Komatsu, s1m0nc3ll0, Adem Elahel, Studio Dosage, k095c, GRIG
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© Steffen Bewer, 2021
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virtual biotope
event curation
La Cité Fertile, Paris
2018
Invited by La Cité Fertile, Club Late Music asked artists and musicians to explore ecosystems of the virtual, in order to question their limits and their intersections with our reality.
Through a mutual aesthetic and a shared critical standpoint, the program navigates between immersive experiences questioning on their own and as a whole the notions of identity, community, distribution and information perception.
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+ program
"Collaborative ecosystems and the art of immersion : the (re)definition of a collective intelligence?"
Panel talk with Club Late Music, Virtual Dream Center, Unicorn Paris, Immersion, Playtronica, Fabbula
UTC+N - Asynchronous Temporary Time Zone
Audiovisual installation by Club Late Music (DÉSIRÉ, D R D R A K K E N, GRiG, jEUNE fAUNE, Shayu), in collaboration with Lambert Duchesne and Victor Ronné
Exhibitions and demonstrations
Unicorn Paris, Virtual Dream Center, Alpha Rats, Adem Elahel, Gourau&Phong, Corpus Misty
DJ sets
Pæn æx Pæn x DJIVD, GRiG