• Cocoon, Debut Album

    CD OS.007 | 2004 Debut album by Cocoon All titles written and mixed by Christophe Demarthe, except Night Time mixed by Mathieu Farnarier. It contains the track Nocturne urbain by Sylvain Chauveau / Cover design and CD-Rom part, Servovalve / Mastering, Norscq / Many thanks to Pierre Beloüin, Mathieu Farnarier, Norscq, Servovalve   BIO | Behind the moniker Cocoon hides Christophe Demarthe, lead singer of Clair Obscur, one of the French leading groups of the post-punk scene of the 80s, and today co-founder of the Acoustic Cameras project. Cocoon is a global project mixing indifferently electronic music, video, photo, text, performance. One of its red threads would be the extension of…

  • Cocoon, More Violent Days Are To Come

    CD OS.012 | 2005 | including eight color in-folios More Violent Days Are To Come by Cocoon All titles written and mixed by Christophe Demarthe, except Catkiller mixed by Mathieu Farnarier / Vocals & machines, Christophe Demarthe / Voices on L'œil de chat, Félicia Atkinson & Léa Lescure (L'œil de chat in Histoire de l'œil by Georges Bataille) / Guitars, Nicolas Demarthe / Radiophonie clandestine, a mix concept by Bruno Lajara (Clandestine by Cocoon vs Radiophonie n°3 by Sylvain Chauveau) Mastering, Norscq / Cover design, Labomatic / Triptyches, Cocoon / Photos, rights reserved / Many thanks to Félicia Atkinson, Jean-Guillaume Belouin, Pierre Beloüin, Sylvain Chauveau, Nicolas Demarthe, Mathieu Farnarier, Bruno…

  • Cocoon, III

    CD OS.053 | 2012 III by Cocoon Most tracks of this album were composed in 2009-2010 for a drama production of Edward Bond's The Children by Bruno Lajara. Additional tracks were composed for a Concert for Dreamachines at L'Ososphère, Strasbourg, 2 October 2010. The album in its final version was played en avant-première for the opening of Cocoon's exhibition at Plateforme, Paris, 25 March 2011 Music written and mixed by Christophe Demarthe / Mastering, In The Shade / Design & photography, Pascal Béjean & Nicolas Ledoux / Painting, Ary Scheffer, The Dead Go Quickly / Many thanks to Pascal Béjean, Pierre Beloüin, Guillaume Gesquière, In The Shade, Bruno Lajara, Nicolas…

  • cocoon, debut album

    CD OS.007 | 2004 | with CD Rom by Servovalve, limited to 500 ex Debut Album by Cocoon All titles written and mixed by Christophe Demarthe,except Night Time mixed by Mathieu Farnarier.It contains the track Nocturne urbain by Sylvain Chauveau Cover design and CD-Rom part, ServovalveMastering, Norscq Many thanks to Pierre Beloüin, Mathieu Farnarier, Norscq, Servovalve BIO | Behind the moniker Cocoon hides Christophe Demarthe, lead singer of Clair Obscur, one of the French leading groups of the post-punk scene of the 80s, and today co-founder of the Acoustic Cameras project. Cocoon is a global project mixing indifferently electronic music, video, photo, text, performance. One of its red threads would be the extension…

  • Cocoon, You’ve Arrived (OS.070)

    LP OS.070 | 2019 | pink vinyl 180 gr with color inner sleeve limited to 500 ex | You've Arrived (OS.070) by Cocoon #2 composed for the performance The Point by Anne Juren, ImPulsTanz, 2015 | #11 appears on the online collection Acoustic Cameras, and on Dreyer’s Le procès de Jeanne d’Arc with Les Voix Animées, Fimé, 2017 | Most of these tracks were first performed on Optical Sound 20th anniversary, Biennale Nemo, 2017 All titles written and mixed by Christophe Demarthe | Mastering by thomas@dkmastering.com | Pressing by DMS | Graphic design & photography by ABM Studio | Front cover: Parasites, a site-specific artwork by Ludovic Chemarin©, 2017 Many thanks…

  • cocoon, you’ve arrived

    You’ve Arrived (OS.070) by Cocoon LP Optical Sound | OS.070 | 2019 | Pink Vinyl 180 gr heavy weight + color inner sleeve limited to 500 ex #2 composed for the performance The Point by Anne Juren, ImPulsTanz, 2015 // #11 appears on the online collection Acoustic Cameras, and on Dreyer’s Le procès de Jeanne d’Arc with Les Voix Animées, Fimé, 2017 // Most of these tracks were first performed on Optical Sound 20th anniversary, Biennale Nemo, 2017 All titles written and mixed by Christophe Demarthe // Mastering by thomas@dkmastering.com // Pressing by DMS // Graphic design & photography by ABM Studio // Front cover: Parasites, a site-specific artwork by…

  • Pierre Beloüin & V/a, Awan~Siguawini~~Spemki~~~ (OS.023) CD

    Awan~Siguawini~~Spemki~~~ (OS.023) by Pierre Beloüin & V/a Cette installation met en parallèle huit photographies de «paysage» avec les «paysages sonores» que l’artiste a prélevés sur chaque lieu photographié. Cette proposition a été transmise à des plasticiens sonores français, qui ont réalisé une libre interprétation sonore en s’inspirant de la photo choisie et des sons bruts prélevés. À chaque tirage photo correspond une (ou plusieurs) bande son qui s'écoute au casque en vis à vis de l'image. Le titre de ces photographies sonores signifie en Indien Abénaki «air/au printemps/paradis». Des “croquis photographiques” ont été mis en ligne sur Internet, destinés à son homologue artiste p.n. Ledoux qui pour l’occasion s’est mis…

  • Optical Sound | New Releases

    All artists compilations vinyl k7 cd norscq 5 streams | LP OS.076 Enrique Ramirez Plunging Collapsing Surging | LP OS.072 Hervé Zenouda Micrologies N°1 | LP OS.073 Rodolphe Alexis Le courant des choses « Tout peut être un paysage » | LP OS.071 Cocoon You’ve Arrived | LP OS.070 Load More

  • Special Offer | April 2022

    During the month of December 2020 you can get this four LP bundle for 50€ (postage included) : Enrique Ramirez | Cocoon | Hervé Zenouda | Rodolphe Alexis Enrique Ramirez, Plunging Collapsing Surging (OS.075) The project is a cooperation with The Narbonnaise regional park in south France where I am developing a project related to the rising of the sea level and climate change. All tracks is made from field recordings I did under the water and in different areas of the nature reserve in The Narbonnaise regional park. Enrique Ramírez studied popular music and cinema in Chile before joining the postgraduate master in contemporary art and new media of…

  • Optical Sound | Electronic, Experimental, Concrete & Ambient Division

    All artists compilations vinyl k7 cd Enrique Ramirez Enrique Ramirez, Plunging Collapsing Surging, LP Cocoon Cocoon « You’ve Arrived » (OS.070) Hervé Zenouda Micrologies N°1 / LP OS.073 Pierre Belouin & Christel Brunet & Rainier Lericolais Programme Radio / LP OS.000 Rodolphe Alexis Le courant des choses (OS.071) « Tout peut être un paysage »* BlackNox We Don’t Believe In Heaven / LP OS.066 Michèle Bokanowski L’étoile Absinthe ~ Chant D’Ombre CD OS.055 Clair Obscur We Gave Our Music To The Gods And The Gods Remixed It / CD OS.052 Clair Obscur We Gave A Party For The Gods And The Gods All Came / CD OS.050 Cocoon III / CD OS.053…