KASPER T. TOEPLITZ

BiographIE
Composer and musician (electric bass, live electronics) working beyond the all-too-common distinctions between contemporary music (the "great") and so-called non-academic music - in this case, electronic music, or noise music. He works as much with major state institutions (GMEM, GRM, IRCAM, Radio France) as with experimental or unclassifiable musicians such as Éliane Radigue, Zbigniew Karkowski, Dror Feiler, Tetsuo Furudate and Phill Niblock. He first wrote extensively for traditional instruments (1st prize for orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival; 1st prize in the "Opéra Autrement/Acanthes" competition), then for his electric guitar orchestra Sleaze Art, before fully integrating the computer into his work, both in terms of compositional thinking and as a "live" instrument in its own right. In 2004, this path found its resolution in the development of the BassComputer concept: an electric bass hybridized with the computer, or vice versa. He develops pieces based on slowly evolving structures of sound matter, inhabited by an internal flicker, fundamentally organic and sensual, subtle and powerful, requiring from the listener much more than an ear: a music to be experienced.
Kasper T. Toeplitz has been Associate Composer at Art Zoyd Studios since July 2019, and has collaborated regularly with Art Zoyd on numerous projects since the 2000s: Metropolis, Biel, Flight Experiments, Armageddon, Jabberwock Night, Phase V.
THE VENUS BLUE PROJECT
ASSOCIATE COMPOSER AT ART ZOYD STUDIOS
Having accompanied the activities of Art Zoyd Studios as associate composer for four seasons already, since September 2019, I can only congratulate myself, looking back on the distance covered, a distance that has enabled Art Zoyd Studio and myself to explore the new and sometimes unexpected paths taken by today's music, that which is still in the process of inventing and defining itself, And this without disavowing in the same movement what constitutes a kind of bedrock of thought, be it an interest in certain recent historical movements, a history or histories of music from the immediate past (whether we're talking about the history of so-called contemporary music or that of the Art Zoyd group) or a certain definition, always in flux, of what is or what makes music.
One constant, a common thread, in these explorations is the idea of electronic music as a kind of guide, convinced as we are that it's not just a question of technicality or technology, but of a state of mind, a desire to move forward, to search for accuracy, a quest for sound.
And so it was by mutual agreement between Art Zoyd Studio, its director Monique Hourbette-Vialadieu and myself that we agreed to continue this thought-provoking artistic partnership for some time to come: it's to be hoped that the road we've travelled together promises yet more surprises and discoveries.
KTT October 2023
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Apr 2025
Landscapes from the underworld (April 3, 2025) in Mons (B)
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Feb 2026
Elephant Memoirs – Creation, Arenberg Creative Mine (Wallers)
@ Arenberg Creative Mine | Valenciennes, France
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Mar 2026
Elephant Memoirs – The Phoenix, Valenciennes
@ le phénix, national stage of Valenciennes | Valenciennes, France
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Mar 2026
Elephant Memoirs – The Phoenix, Valenciennes
@ le phénix, national stage of Valenciennes | Valenciennes, France
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Mar 2026
Elephant Memoirs – The Phoenix, Valenciennes
@ le phénix, national stage of Valenciennes | Valenciennes, France