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Christophe Charpenel
Damien is a singer, electroacoustic musician, and harmonica player. On the side, he strums the Saz Cümbüs (which is not an improbable extra bone that gives Damien his gangly silhouette, but rather a type of Turkish banjo). For many years in Lyon, he has also been a compulsive concert organizer (Otomo Yoshihide, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Spectre, Eugène Chadbourne, Melt Banana, Dave Phillips, Aki Onda...) and a graphic designer specializing in raw posters (exhibitions at the Printing Museum in 2018 and 2019).
With an encyclopedic musical culture, he blends his heterogeneous influences with a natural talent for surrealism.
As a child, he played with a Playschool tape recorder. So, it was only logical that many years later, he would join Bernard Fort’s electroacoustic music class.
At ARFI, he currently performs with La Marmite Infernale, the video-concert Un autre Kong, and Entre les Oreilles. He also participated in the cine-concert M. Méliès et Géo Smile.
Elsewhere, you can hear him in Marteau Matraque, Bételgeuse, -1, Bronzy MC Dada, 300mA, Vocoder, Rature, and 80 dates. He also composes and performs for Cécile Laloy’s dance company Als.