Yann Leguay
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold the sound materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances he has presented in many places and festival in Europe and further. His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behavior appropriates unusual machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using opened hard-drives as turntables. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing silkscreen records or a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel. His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback. He is also involved in many collective projects such as radio researches and events organisations
Projects
- Volta 2017
- VOLTA 2019
- Fuckthemooon
- Again The Sunset
- Cutter Off
- Quad Core
- INSUB META ORCHESTRA
- Meanwhile
- CANCELLLED
- Headcrash
Presentations
- festival Hypersonica 2022, FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022
- festival Festival Sonic Protest, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France, 2022
- solo show Fonotopias, Ex Teresa, Mexico City, Mexico, 2021
- festival Confort Moderne 2021, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, 2021
- group show High Voltage, Academie Beeld Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 2021
- festival Oscillation Festival 2021, Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
- festival AND Festival 2021, AND Festival, Leuven, Belgium, 2021
- festival Hypersonica 2020, FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2020
- festival Blurred Edges Festival, Blurred Edges, Hamburg, Germany, 2020
- performance Carl Stone (usa) + Yann Leguay (fr), Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
- festival Festival Sonic Protest 2020, THÉATRE MUNICIPAL BERTHELOT, Montreuil, France, 2020
- festival Festival Sonic Protest 2020, Maison de la Grève, Rennes, France, 2020
- festival Sonic Pro Brest #2, Le Maquis, Brest, France, 2020
- festival HUMAN TECH DAYS 2020, Bandit-Mages, Bourges, France, 2020
- open studio Open Atelier Overtoon, Overtoon, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
- festival Instruments Make Play 2019, WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2019
- festival Akouphène Festival, Cave 12, Genève, Swiss, 2019
- special event IMAL AT WORK, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
- performance Haunted Folklore, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
- festival KIKK 2019, KIKK, Namur, Belgium, 2019
- festival Densités Festival, Association Vu d'un Oeuf, Fresnes-en-Woëvre (Nancy), France, 2019
- festival Festival Bruisme, Le Lieu Multiple, Poitiers, France, 2019
- performance Relay, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria, 2019
- festival Festival Pied Nu, Association Piednu, Le Havre, France, 2019
- festival BOUGE B 2019 Club Edition, De Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium, 2019
- special event Beyond Music #1, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2018
- festival Tuned City Messene 2018, Tuned City, Messene, Greece, 2018
- special event No Patent Pending #32, iii, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 2018
- performance SOUNDDAY, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, Belgium, 2017