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Antoine Chessex
Born1980
OriginVevey, Switzerland
GenresExperimental, Noise, Sound Art, Improvised music, Contemporary classical music,
Occupation(s)Musician, Composer, Sound Artist, Lecturer, Researcher

Antoine Chessex (1980 in Vevey) is a Swiss artist and researcher who works with sound. Selected instrumental works include Les Abîmes Hallucinés (for Ensemble Proton in Bern), La Résonance des Ruines (for ICTUS Ensemble in Brussels), Plastic Concrete (For Apartment House in London), The Experience of Limit, and Echo/cide.

Antoine Chessex is the recipient of a Swiss Music Prize from the Federal Office of Culture in 2020, as well as an Artist Prize "Werkjahr" from the City of Zurich in 2018.

Chessex is also a founding member of the noise band Monno with whom he toured extensively. Collaborations with musicians Lasse Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jérôme Noetinger, Maja Ratkje, Valerio Tricoli, Dave Phillips, Chris Corsano, architect Christian Waldvogel and media artist Ulrike Gabriel (Flow, 2002).

Antoine Chessex is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Zurich University of the Arts where he works on the transdisciplinary exploration of artistic research, sound studies and cultural studies.

Discography

chamber music:

  • Echo/cide & The Experience of Limit (Tochnit-Aleph, 2020)
  • Chessex, Noetinger & Apartment House (Bocian, 2016)
  • Furia played by Werktag (A Tree in A Field, 2015)
  • Selected Chamber Music Works (Tochnit-Aleph, 2014)
  • Dust for 3 violins, backtape and electronics (Cave12/Metamkine, 2011)

solo works:

  • Subjectivation (Rekem/Fragment Factory, 2018)
  • Multiple (Musica Moderna, 2014)
  • Errances (Under Platform, 2013)
  • Fools (Tourette, 2010)
  • Le Point Immobile (Mnoad, 2010)
  • Terra Incognita (Absurd, 2009)
  • Power, stupidity & ignorance (Petit mignon, 2009)
  • Untitled acoustic (Naivsuper, 2008)
  • Lost in destruction (Editions Zero, 2008)
  • Silences (Tanzprocesz, 2007)
  • No (Imvated, 2004)

with Monno:

  • Cheval Ouvert (2xLP, Staalplaat/Petit Mignon, 2015)
  • Cheval Ouvert (Idiosyncratics, 2013)
  • Ghosts (Conspiracy, 2009)
  • Error (Conspiracy, 2007)
  • Untitled (Soundimplant, 2004)
  • Candlelight technology (Subdeviant, 2003)

collaborations:

  • Maiandros with Fransisco Meirino & Jérôme Noetinger (Cave12, 2021)
  • Der dritte Treffpunkt (Clean Feed, 2017)
  • Maja Ratkje's Crepuscular Hour (Rune Grammofon, 2016)
  • Coi Tormenti with Valerio Tricoli (Dilemma, 2010)
  • Calcination (Utech, 2009)
  • With Dave Phillips (Tochnit aleph compilation, 2005)
  • Swiftmachine (Creative sources, 2004)
  • Kainkwatett (Schraum, 2003)
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