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.
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”
-“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.
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)
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.
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
“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/lucid.htm
2006
-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.
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