Anne-James Chaton

Anne-James Chaton has published several books published by Al Dante and joined the German label Raster-Noton in 2011 with  Evénements 09 and Décade published in 2012. He has given many performances in France and abroad. He has worked with the group of Dutch post-rock band The Ex and released an album, Le journaliste (2008), with the English guitarist Andy Moor, with whom he develops since 2011 Tansfer series of four 7” project whose album was released in 2013 on the Dutch label Unsounds. He worked on the albums Unitxt (2008) and Univrs (2011) by German artist Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. In January 2009, he created the trio Décade, with Andy Moor and Alva Noto. He also created Napoli, Napoli with Benoît Bradel, Black Monodie with Philippe Menard for the 64th edition of the Festival d'Avignon, and Le cas Gage, ou les aventures de Phineas en Amérique with choreographer Sylvain Prunenec, part that will be created during the edition 2013 Dance festival Uzes in Uzes.
In 2013 he began a collaboration with singer and composer Nosfell around project Icons. The same year he formed the trio HERETICS with Andy Moor and Thurston Moore, guitarist and singer of American band Sonic Youth.
Its plastic and visual works, drawn from his writing materials, have been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad.
Anne-James Chaton founded and co-directs the festival Sonorités in Montpellier.

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