Experimental music and post-rock collective
Mad Song is an experimental music collective which explores innovative forms of music creation, combining performance with sound art, live electronics, poetry and mixed media.
Albums
Forthcoming…
Projects
Mad Song | Trio
Experimental post-rock | Improvisation
Mad Song incorporates improvisation, drone and feedback to create captivating experimental post-rock atmospheres which distort space and time.
Benoît Gisler – guitar and electronics
Raphael Nick – drums and percussion
Luis Velasco-Pufleau – guitar and electronics
Live dates
21 February 2025 – Fribourg, CH @Festival Textures
Performance with Michel Lavoie on texts by Eric Plamondon
Supported by
Mad Song | The Fribourg Sessions
Album | Improvisation | Experimental post-rock | Research
Benoît Gisler – guitar and electronics
Raphael Nick – drums and percussion
Chanda VanderHart – prepared piano
Luis Velasco-Pufleau – guitar and electronics
Julien Grandjean – mix and mastering
In connection with the Pro Helvetia Art+ Exchange ‘Live Electronics, Emotional Interactions and Creative Strategies in Free Collective Improvisation‘, conducted from June to September 2023 in Vienna and Fribourg with Prof. Dr. Marie Herzfeld-Schild (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).
Supported by
Mad Song | Décharges
Album | Experimental | Improvisation
Benoît Gisler – guitar and electronics
Raphael Nick – percussion
Luis Velasco-Pufleau – guitar and electronics
Jean-Paul Guinnard – photography and field recording
Julien Grandjean – mix and mastering
Recorded at MDA
Fribourg (Switzerland), 20 February 2024
Supported by
Mad Song | Feedback
Improvisation | Research
Improvisation sets at the Night of Improvisation, international conference Music Discourses after 1970. Hochschule der Künste Bern, 23 March 2023.
Mad Song
Marisol Jiménez (feedback machines, electronics), Benoît Gisler (guitar, electronics), Luis Velasco-Pufleau (guitar, electronics)
with Franziska Baumann (voice), Maria Sappho (piano), Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen (melodica/gadgets/voice), Raphaël Sudan (piano) and Roman Stolyar (piano)
Supported by
Mad Song | Blake
Album | Experimental post-rock | Improvisation | Performance
Performance based on two poetical sketches by William Blake, for voices, electric guitars, percussion, fixed sounds and live electronics
Creation: 3 September 2022
Le Nouveau Monde (Fribourg, Switzerland)
Poetical sketches by William Blake:
Mad song
The wild winds weep,
And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
And my griefs unfold:
But lo! the morning peeps
Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling birds of dawn
The earth do scorn.
Lo! to the vault
Of paved heaven,
With sorrow fraught
My notes are driven:
They strike the ear of night,
Make weep the eyes of day;
They make mad the roaring winds,
And with tempests play.
Like a fiend in a cloud
With howling woe,
After night I do croud,
And with night will go;
I turn my back to the east,
From whence comforts have increas’d;
For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain.
Memory, hither come,
And tune your merry notes;
And, while upon the wind
Your music floats,
I’ll pore upon the stream
Where sighing lovers dream,
And fish for fancies as they pass
Within the watery glass.
I’ll drink of the clear stream,
And hear the linnet’s song;
And there I’ll lie and dream
The day along:
And, when night comes, I’ll go
To places fit for woe,
Walking along the darken’d valley,
With silent Melancholy.
Wyna Giller – voice and performance
Benoît Gisler – guitar and electronics
Rachel Gordy – voice and performance
Michel Lavoie – stage direction, voice and performance
Raphael Nick – drums and percussion
Luis Velasco-Pufleau – composition, guitar and electronics
María Eugenia Poblete Beas – set design
Julien Grandjean – mix and mastering
Philipp Bürge – artwork
Miguel Béchet, Aloune Béchet and Baptiste Janon – video recording
Compagnie Théâtre Boréale – coproduction
Supported by
Contact
madsong_collective@proton.me
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