Franck Smith

(multi)-instrumentalist using electronic devices, digital percussives, vinyls, anvils, gongs, sirens... Also (un)known as Ijnveïq de Ernestine, Tlü Ejtko, Phrenq, Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg – Franck Smith runs the private recording collection Odiolorgnette and performs as an independant artist in electro-acoustic contexts. Member of the dual electronic unit Zn'shñ (with artist/sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff) he elaborates noise manufacturing live projects and experimental recordings.

See official website odiolorgnette for more details + personal page myspace.com/sthintosmithereens
* Blog : francksmith.blogspot.com

* page of Zn'shñ myspace.com/znshn

For complete video selection :
* youtube.com/znshn
* youtube.com/odiolorgnette

Influences: experimental and primitive sound-activities ; hybrid acousmatic contexts ; neo-archaisms ; Japanese Gagaku ; Tibetan rituals ; Pygmy music ; everything linked to noise manufacturing ; electronic manoeuvrings - including - digital percussive devices and vinyl manipulation.