FloyKrouchi - drfloy@yahoo.com

 

 

-Floy Krouchi aka DrFloy, a french sound artist, bass guitarist and electroacoustic composer, involved in the electronic and experimental music scene and in the female collective Mafucage,  has been performing since 1994 in France, Uk, US , Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Tchequia, Russia, China, and India.

 

-She produces  and releases sound art and pieces for diverse supports in various art forms such as CDs, vinyl EPS, internet web art, videos, installations of her own projects and collaborates  with various artists, collectives and queer groups in Europe and India.

 

-She also works with photography , video and multimedia, and conceive interdisciplinary projects , deeply rooted in socio-politcal global focus , where sound remains the central element of the creation.

 

-Founder of the organization “ Le Cri du Silence “, ( The Cry of Silence) : Women arts and technologies, dedicated to producing, training and promoting  female musicians in the field of electronics.

 

 

FORMATION-RESIDENCES-

 

2006 :

STEIM (Amsterdam, NL) : Interactivity, real time and sensors.

DICREAM :installation Sakhiri II “HIJRAS DIARIES “

Classe de composition électroacoustique de Gino Favotti ; Classe d’improvisation jazz de David Patrois, Conservatoire, Paris.

2005  :      Program “Artist in Residency ”, French cultural services, India

2004  : STEIM- Amsterdam (NL) . Electroacoustic, realtimesoftware  LISA and SENSORlab test

2003-4 : Hindustani Classical class with PANDIT HINDRAJ DIVEKAR, a master of Rudra Veena and Sitar ,Pune ( India) : ragas, talas, srutis,microtones and non tempered scale

2002 :    Studio Bakelite, Montpellier, France , MAO ,analogic synthesis, Digital Audio , Sequencing and composition .

1998  : Cutural artistic center “Le Brise Glace”, Grenoble, France : Music and new technologies, samplers, midi sequencing, mixing production.

1996 :       Grant « DEFI JEUNE »  for the creation of “le Cri du Silence”.

1993 :       AFRO CUBAN RHYTHM study

1992 : Guildhall summer school, London, fellowship, JAZZ, HARMONY, QUINTET WORKSHOP

1991- 1989 : HARMONIE  (American School of Modern Music), IMPROVISATION  (quintet workshop, conservatoire Paris V)

1991:    Litterature, Art, Culture, et Communication”, licence PARIS III . OPTION “Cinéma, Photographie et Art de l’Image”

 

 

 

VIDEOS,INSTALLATIONS,MULTIMEDIA: EXPOSITIONS

 

-“RETROALIMENTACION”, Video sound track, LSD Madrid / Transgeneric@s- San Sebastian – Musée d’Art moderne,  Espagne, 1999.

 

- “ANONYMOUS FILM PORTRAIT”, Sound Track for a Video installation by Virginia Villaplana / Biennale d ‘art  de Valence, 2001.

 

- “NUIT”, Film (50mns) Virginia Villaplana, une performance électro et feu organisée par “ Le Cri du Silence “,    Août 2001… avec Mafucage – Live électronique sur vidéo expérimentale.

 

-“MAKE PEACE”, tekno-interactive installation , Slovenia, Kibla Public Radio 2001.

 

 -“INVISIBLE WORK” :  Sound Installation and diapositives-   Porto 2001 / First Women Building Story/ LSD Projection, Portugal octobre 2002.

-« MEMORIA PENDULAR», Video, 6mns + DVD, LSD Madrid, 2005. Valencia

 

-“THE CITY”, “INNER TURMOIL”, “QUEERLOVE”, “FAMILA’s FAMILA”: Sound and video ART pieces in collaboration with Sumathi, Tejal Shah and Natasha Mendonca, as part of “SAKHIRI”, a multimedia performance, INDIA 2005.

 

-SAKHIRI II –“ HIJRAS DIARIES” : Sound and Video installation, exposition MIDDLESEX, EN LA FRONTERA, Centro de historia, zaragoza.

 

 

DISCOGRAPHY

EP VYNILS

CDS002 : Mafucage : “ Full Power ” ; Maxi 2 titres /P&C Le Cri du Silence, 2000.

CDS001 : Mafucage : “ O Barbares” ; Maxi4 titres  P&C Le Cri du Silence, 1998/1000 ex.

Projet 2501 : “ Free Form of Life ” ; Mafucage : “ Face2face”, “Birth of Living I”, “Conspiration”, “Le nom de ta mère”, vinyl, 2001

 

DUBPLATES

 MAFUCAGE 7 inches : Ma sœur, Excision, Le jeu de la joie de jouir, Résistance, Samba Maria, Legend (2002) 

 

CDS

CDS003 : Mafucage : “ Forte tête ” ;  2 CDs  25 titres P&C Le Cri du Silence, 2002.

Arboretum NYC : “ Mafucage/Ambient  Dub” ; CD 5 titres; compilation Mafucage/One Art sur un jeune label New Yorkais.

 

COMPILATIONS

HTZ 001 : Dub this Net : “Altered Connection I”  - Mafucage :” Hostage in Babylon”, CD, 2001/2000 ex.

Hi-Subway : “Alternative Novo Dub 2” -  Mafucage : “Nomad Dub” ,CD, 2001/2000 ex.

Rebellesound 1 / 2002. Women in Music

 

PARTICIPATION-GUEST

“Face-Woman see a lot of things”- CD book release oct 2004-Meira Asher (2004)

“Le Big Bang” (LP vinyl + tournée, 1997)-“ Webstock” , cyberculture contre génocide (live tape+ tour, 1999). “El Nino / No fashion “(maxivynil 1999).-PLANET GENERATION.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

*LSD : “ NON GRATA” 1998, revista MADRID, SPAIN:

“Ecoute ce chant nouveau”, Cyborg Poem.

 

*”SCRIPT”: “SCRIPT”,  nov 2004, BOMBAY, INDIA.

“The flower and the wound”. A poem dedicated to Famila and Family

 

*”MIDDLESEX”: exhibition catalogue to be published, 2006

“TRANS/CULTURAL practice: SAKHIRI- TRANSGENDER diaries”

Exploring subjective experiences, social conditions and de/construction of gender with the HIJRA and KHOTI family, a traditional transsexual and transgender community in Bangalore, South India

 

WEB ART / INTERNET RADIO:

*CONSCIOUS TUNEZ :

-ACT UP : SIDA les constat de l’épidémie au niveau planétaire à l’an 2000

-Mix Move : Conscious Tunez 003

-DREAM TIME for Peace : Conscious Tunez 02

-SISTERZ on The MIKE: Conscious Tunez 01

http://saralucid.free.fr

http://saralucid.free.fr/lucid.htm

 

 

SELECTED PROJECTS

2006

SAKHIRI II: “HIJRAS DIARIES”

-Interactive sound and video installation exploring social conditions, subjective experiences and de/construction of gender with members of the HijRAS and khotis community in Bangalore, South India :

-Group show in Zaragoza and Madrid (spain), and  GRAZ (Austria)

-Live electronic Performance in Paris , Madrid and Castres.

-Screenings in Film festivals : Cineffable, Festival International Paris Berlin,

Le Lieu Autre.

 

2005

SAKHIRI” : an electro-acoustic multimedia performance crossing genders and mixing sounds, images, video and poetry in music.

India : Alliance Française, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbay, March/April.

Jan/June. A project exploring gender de/ construction with members of the hijras community, a traditional transsexual community of India, and gender variants individuals.

The show includes a live electronics performance of 7 sound and video pieces, Hindustani classical vocals, Video Live Mix , Performances, Poetry and a Photo Exhibition.

Conceived in India during an artist residency, this creation is an interdisciplinary, process-based collaboration between Dr Floy ( Electro-Acoustic Sound Artist, France) and Indian artists Sumathi ( Hindustani Classical Vocals) and  Tejal Shah ( Video Art).

The working methodology employed is unique, melting poetics with narrative; creative workshop, interviews, real life documentation and community living with some participants from the hijra Community generated the foundational material from which the artists have responded with their art forms.

 

 

« FUGAS SUBVERSIVAS”:reflexiones hibridas sobre la(s) identidad(es). LSD: “Memoria pendular”, Video 6mns y dvd, Universitat de Valencia , Spain, August/Sept.

 

2003-1994

MAFUCAGE ”    www.mafucage.org

A collective of Paris-based female musicians grouped around this legend of Mafu,( the last of the Androgyns being caged up ), frenetically scrambling the rigid boundaries and yokes between electro, acoustic electronics, dub, breakbeat, techno and experimental music. A series of performances punctuating a Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Beijing train trip which was leading them to the Fourth International Conference on Women, and many performances at festivals,squats, and free parties... drfloy (bass Machine), Krysto (drum Machine), Mxr Koz'n (noisy fx guitar).

As an  electro-instrumental trio, Mafucage has been developing an original repertoire and setting up projects and performances under diverse forms, inviting up to 7 performers on stage in Italy, playing the most intimate live electronics on the experimental video `NUIT` in Brussels, or Barcelona … or touring East Europe with the brazilian poetess Teresa Moreira de Jesus…

 

Selected performances of Mafucage : 

« FEMALE AVANT GARDE east europe tour», Tchequia, Poland, Germany (2003)--

« HARDCORE FEVER », Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003) —

« JUNCTIONS », Constantvzw, Brussels, (2002) —

 “NUIT” Hangar, Barcelona , Santiago de Compostela 2003 –

« MONASTERY of SOUND », UK (2000)--………

« PARIS , BERLIN , MOSCOU ,BEIJING » (1995), a serie of concerts on the road to Pekin for the IVth international women conference

« FEMMES DU CHIAPAS » (1994) ………….

 

2004-2000: CONSCIOUS TUNEZ

“ONE ART ” online project

Electronic pieces under the name of One Art, a personal project born in reaction to  political, social and cultural events after the blast of the second intifada, made out of different collaborations and broadcast through a musical programme on an Internet webart program named “ Conscious Tunez” ... launched for the website HYPERTUNEZ.

 

“SARALUCID”    http://saralucid.free.fr  

a website site about Palestinian/Israelo conflict and identities

Tragedia and artistic transfiguration.

Experimental sound pieces composed of “illustrated poeticized testimonies” of Palestinian women, collected in the occupied territories, and of  ambient dub creations, electro-acoustics , ONE ART with Kamilya jubran ( voice, oud, Palestine) and Meira Asher (electronics and percussion, Israel), 2003/-

http://saralucid.free.fr/lucid.html

 

ACT UP!”

Interviews, sound track and online video , International day of AIDS - dec 2000

 

“DREAMTIME 4 PEACE ”- 2000-1421-5761. Electroacoustic online creation.

 

 

 

SELECTED DATES  EVENTS and PERFORMANCES

 

2006 :

-21/12 : OPA bastille, Heaven, Indian Night serenade.

-09/12 : Paris Experimental Sound, Gallerie 25.

-20/10 : Les FRIGOS / Girls at Work

-21/06 : Le Cri du Silence, diffusion électroacoustique. Festival « ESTIV’TRONIK : MOUVEMENT/SON », Paris.

-10/06 : « SAKHIRI : TRANS/CULTURAL PRACTICE », Conference ,Group show Middlesex, Zaragoza

-18/06-02/07 : « EN LA FRONTERA », Group show MIDDLESEX : Sakhiri trangender diaries II. Vidéo and Sound  Installation. Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Espagne.

-5-6/05 : SAKHIRI II, Vidéo and sound installation- GRAZ, Austria

-18/03 : « DRFLOY electronics », LO BOLEGASON, Castres.

-07/03 : «  CONMOCIONES FEMINISTAS », Madrid . Sakhiri transgender diaries II : Live electronic + projection. Circulo de Bellas Artes

 

2005

“FETE DE LA LIBERTE”: Princess Erika, Saint Denis et Saint Pierre de la Réunion.

(20/12)

“EL EJE DEL MAL….”- Conscious MixX, Madrid- Grupo de Trabajo Queer (08-12)

A L EPREUVE DU TEMPS”: Tournée de Princess Erika en tant que bassiste choriste, oct-nov2005

"DASH" Neurotic electronics DrFloy+ I-Snor. "Le placard festival", Gallery Glassbox, Paris  (22-07)

« FUGAS SUBVERSIVAS”:reflexiones hibridas sobre la(s) identidad(es). LSD: “Memoria pendular”, Video 6mns y dvd, Universitat de Valencia, Spain, (August/Sept).

“SAKHI RI” an electro acoustic multimedia performance/ Bangalore-Pune-Mumbay / INDIA (01-01/01-06): 1-2 avril 2005: Bombay, alliance française; 25 mars 2005: Puna, center for performing art, en partenariat avec l’Alliance française de Puna; 18-19 Mars 2005, Alliance française de Bangalore; Janvier-mars 2005: Residence/creation pluridisciplinaire: SAKHIRI

 

2004

“KARAKOLA”, Conscious mix ,Madrid/SPAIN--“NESS”  ethno electro musical temporary autonomous zone,Paris/ FR-“GARDEN OF EDEN”, Puna/ INDIA-“WSF”: recordings with VIVIDHA,Bombay/INDIA

 

2003

 “FEMMES EN RESISTANCE”, sound installation, Paris/FRANCE-

“NUIT” Hangar,Barcelona/SPAIN--“MAFUCAGE 9 YEARS”, Marseille/FR--

“FEMALE AVANT GARDE ”festival and tour /PRAGA/ DRESDEN/WROKLAW Europe tour 03--“HARDCORE FEVER-PALAIS DE TOKYO, Paris/FR--

“NUIT”Cuerpos de produccion,Santiago de Compostela/ SPAIN—

 

2002

“JUNCTIONS”-Constantvzw, Brussels/BELGIUM--

“ALTERNATIONS” -Vision Musicale , Paris/FR--

“DA RUA” Electro,Street music and performance”, Montpellier/FR--

“ADN volX,la Barbare,Paris/FR--Festival DKP, Macon/FR—

 

2001

“NO MAS GUERRAS ….LSD, Porto 2001/PORTUGAL--“SISTERSOUNDSYSTEM-SABAT” electro-fire performance and free party/ south of FRANCE--“LAVILLETTE@OM” caves st sabin,Paris/fr--« CABARET TRASH » electrofire and body painting-la Barbare,Paris/FR-- “TEKNO TROUBLE FREE”-la Barbare/PARIS - “010101” live, hekate sound system, /SPAIN—

 

2000

“FREE MUMMIA” conscious dj Set, Montreuil/FR--“MONASTERY OF SOUND”, Law and Auder/UK--“MIXMOVE” Conscious mix, Paris/FR--“TEKNIVAL”/BLOIS-- “PRIMEROSE”/ GOA-INDIA—

 

1999

“YNOT2K”-hypertunez,Goa/INDIA--“END OF THE WORLD party”,Barcelona/INDIA--“SPOR festival-STORMCORE”,Brighton/UK

“CYBERCULTURE CONTRE GENOCIDE” Webbart/PARIS—

 

1998

TRANS_GENERIC@S “ video installation, LSD, San Sebastian/SPAIN

“TEKNIVALS” / South OF FRANCE--“EXODUS FESTIVAL”,Luton/UK

“BRISE-GLACE” ,Grenoble/FR—

 

1997

“TEKNIVALS”/ FR-“LE BIG BANG”  electro-acoustic tour  , PG2M, Bordeaux, Toulouse/FR-“TRAFFIC” festival CRDC, Nantes/FR—

 

1996

“DES CROCHES ET LA LUNE”, Festival, Verfeil/FR--HOT BRASS, Paris/FR

“CONCERT POUR LA LIBERTE”, Fleury Merogis/FR--“LEON CAVALLO, Milan, Venezia, Bologna tour/IT--“DIA DE LA MUJER”, Bilbao/SPAIN--

“LSD appartment”, Madrid/SPAIN--“CONCERT POUR 12 CHANTEUSES”, Erotika, Paris/FR—

 

1995

“HISTOIRE A TOTO”, Erotika, Paris/FR

“TRANS-SIBERIAN sur fond d’ondes radiophoniques” / PARIS-BERLIN-MOSCOU-PEKIN-“ IVeme international conference on women”/CHINA--

“BACK TO AMAZONIA”, Confluence, Paris/FR--“8 Mars”, Bilbao/SPAIN

“ZEBROCK” Ile de France/FR

 

1994

“NOIR D’IVOIRE”, live installation, Beaune/FR--“FEMMES DU CHIAPAS”, Goumen, Paris/FR--“TRIANON”, Paris/FR/ PARIS --ESEC / PARIS