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Establishing itself as an experimental music project in the late nineties on the radiophonic landscape of Ottawa, Canada; Iszoloscope quickly gathered momentum through weekly broadcasts and renditions at local alternative electronic music events. In 2001, Iszoloscope gained world-wide attention performing at the German underground music festival Maschinenfest and releasing its debut album, "Coagulating Wreckage", on Belgium's Spectre Records.
As of Today, Iszoloscope has remixed countless artists, appeared on dozens compilations, produced 4 more full length albums on the European labels Ant-Zen & Spectre ("Aquifère", "Au Seuil du Néant", "Les Gorges Des Limbes", and "The Audient Void") along with several EPs and collaborations on the labels YB-70, Ad Noiseam, and Spectre. Iszoloscope has also executed 5 successful European tours, and a myriad of shows at international events across the planet from Australia to Japan, to Europe and North America.
• In The Face Of Descent (Kinetik Cut)
• -28C & Falling
• The Sum Of Us All (Remix)
• In The Face Of Descent (Mf08 Cut)
• Something Shaped Like Agony
• In The Other Mind Of Us (Kinetik Cut)
• Learn The Agony That Was Etched Into My Very Core
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• To Exhibit Chaotic Behavior
• Seasonal Identity Crisis Disco
• Heard Voices [credited as "Mimetic Iszoloscope" (feat. Mimetic)]
• Heard Voices [credited as "Mimetic Iszoloscope" (feat. Mimetic)]
• Insubstantiability (Decay_Cut)
• The Sum Of Us All (Remix)
• Heard Voices (album version)
• In The Middle Of Nowhere
• Heard Voices (live remix)
• Heard Voices
• A Spectral Threat
• A Deep Cthulhu Terror
• Symposium
• Suffocating Simoniacs (remix)
• Axel F(aussurier)
• Once the Inferno (resaturation)
• Suffocating Simoniacs
• In the Other Mind of Us
• Au Seuil du Néant (Daruma cut)
• -28C and Falling
• Skotophobique (D-Side cut)
• The Apocryphal Market
• Skotophobique
• Crimson Road (live)
• Le Dominateur Commun
• Cenoptype . Unearth Me (Save Me Unearthed remix by Iszoloscope)
• Autoclav1.1 . Obligatory Interlude Part 2 (Iszoloscope Remix)
• Terrorfakt . Rhythm & Hate [Iszoloscope Remix]
• Terrorfakt . Rhythm & Hate [Iszoloscope Remix]
• Prometheus Burning . Significantly Altered [Iszoloscope Remix]
• Caustic . Dog Dick Ugly [remix by iszoloscope]
• Amassador21 . Legalize Death [remix by iszoloscope]
• KiEw . Himmel [iszoloscope remix]
• Autoclav1.1 . White Cover [heaven likes it dirty remix]
• The Liar's Rosebush / Scrap.edx . Collects [iszoloscope Collects]
• Haujobb . The Noise Institute (1994mix by iszoloscope)
• Re_Agent . Brain Death (iszoloscope remix)
• Mimetic Dancing . Inscets (iszoloscope remix)
• Ordinateur . Beep Signal Attack_live version (iszoloscope remix)
• HIV+ . 1968 (haunted mix by iszoloscope)
• Rasputin . Sexx (iszoloscope remix)
• Antigen Shift . A Distant Exit (Further remix)
• Soul Circuit . Loathe (iszoloscope remix)
• Lith . Cesium (1967 remix)
• Ah Cama-Sotz . Zostrah (Fear, Madness and Mysticism remix)
• Mono No Aware . Hush Little Baby (iszoloscope remix)
Kikai No Sekai [Hands - 2003]
• Antigen Shift . Needle Contingency (iszoloscope remix)
• Robot Haus . Psychic Warriors ov Unicron (iszoloscope remix)
As mentioned above, such a device does not exist; I decided to spell it with an "sz" mostly because I wanted to preserve a surreal quality to the name (in a French and English context). Its concept was imagined by Bénard and myself during a conversation about an online article we found, documenting John C Lilly's failure to secure government grants for his researches in sensory deprivation during the late 1960ies. The first reason enumerated was political. His association with the LSD counter-culture movement and the negative legal publicity that came with it was problematic for too many institutions*. Though, the article's focus was directed on how he lost his hold on academic credibility because of his gradual laxity in scientific rigor: as he took his experiments with LSD and isolation tanks further, he gradually turned them into introspective vision quests in altered states of consciousness (even though compelling and spiritually relevant, this is something hard to back up as scientific research). We couldn't help but notice that this whole issue might have been circumvented had he produced standardized data to document the experiment's aspect that touched human physiology under these unique conditions (even though, this not being his main interest). He needed a device that would've precisely monitored the whole experiment, covering as many aspects and phases as possible, displaying a very wide spectrum of data. An "isoloscope" of some sort. And so our project had a name! There was a certain poetry to it that I still like today. A harmonious mixture of our own imagination, the exploration of the farthest confines of the human psyche and the scientific discipline that grounds our understanding of the matter with the rest of the universe in its entirety.
* I'd like to comment on the fact that subsequently, that same publicity helped him secure private funds to support all of his research projects (most notably on inter-species communication) for the rest of his career and until his death in 2001. Irony at its best.
The Underground - Calgary, Alberta (Canada).
Iszoloscope Playing with :
Montgomery Legion - 330 Kent Street, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada).
Iszoloscope Playing with :
TBA - Madison (Wisconsin)
Iszoloscope Playing with :about:
Since 1999, Iszoloscope has been pushing the abstract conceptualization of isolation and its induced altered states of consciousness into a powerful, ominous, and immersive world of dark sonic aesthetic that can be called its very own. Seamlessly bending stylistic constraints by creating a fusion of industrial, electro-acoustic, ambient, rhythmic noise, psy-trance and break-core; this artistic endeavor sets an exceptional standard in hybrid electronic music.
Yann Faussurier / Artistic dirrection and active member from 1999 until today.lineup:
Guillaume Nadon / Active member from 2008 until today.
François Bénard / Active member from 1999 until 2001.
Shane Whitbread / Guitar Drones on "Aquifere" and "The Audient Void"discography:
The Audient Void . CD 
[Ant-Zen, act 189] September 2005
Les Gorges des Limbes . CD 
[Ant-Zen, act 178] May 2004
Au Seuil du Néant . 2CD 
[Ant-Zen, act 138] May 2003
First CD contains the full length album.
2nd CD contains 14 remixes.
Aquifère . CD 
[Spectre - Nautilus, NA05] October 2002
Coagulating Wreckage . CD 
[Spectre, R06] September 2001
discography // splits/collaborations:
Camanecroszcope II . CD 
Echoes Ov A Beckoning Arcanum
[Spectre, S23] October 2006
Collaboration with Ah Cama-Sotz.
Iszoloscope & Ebola . CD EP 
[YB 70, YB70 09] June 2004
Split with Ebola.
Camanecroszcope . CD 
Echoes Ov Who Lieth Dead But Ever Dreameth
[Spectre, S14] October 2003
Collaboration with Ah Cama-Sotz.
Tarmvred & Iszoloscope Do America . CD EP 
[Ad Noiseam, adn 25] March 2003
Collaboration with Tarmvred.
The Blood Dimmed Tide . 3" CD EP 
[Spectre, S10] October 2002
Collaboration with Antigen Shift.
discography // maxis/singles:
• This Monstrosity is Part of my Fibric . 12" vinyl LP 
[Ant-Zen, act 138.3] May 2003
• Solistice . 7" vinyl EP
[Spectre, R06.1] September 2001
• In The Other Mind Of Us (Extended) discography // compilations:
Reload. Invasion And Friends 2009
Invasion Wreck Chords - 2009
Kinetik Festival Volume Two
Artoffact Records - 2009
Saturation Bombing (Re-edition)
Bugs Crawling Out Of People - 2008
Parazit (12" edition)
YB70 - 2008
Maschinenfest 2008
Pflichtkauf - 2008
Maschinenfest - The 10th Anniversary Jubilee Celebration Present
Ant-Zen - 2008
Kinetik Festival Volume One
Artoffact Records - 2008
Audiotion - Sonic Tribute To Takashi Miike
Vital - 2007
spectre:decade
Spectre Records - 2006
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Ad Noiseam - 2006
The Other Side
Geska Records - 2006
A Mere Invention Of The Idle Mind
Crunch Pod Records - 2006
Pandora's Box
Invasion Wreck Chords - 2006
Rhythms For Decay
InfeKed Sound - 2005
Parazit
YB 70 - 2005
Maschinenfest 2005
Pflichtkauf - 2005
A.L.P.H.A. Compilation
Geska Records - 2005
Sequance or Die vol. 2.8
Brainchaos - 2005
Sequance or Die vol. 2.8
Brainchaos - 2005
Angst
Spectre Records - 2004
Revelation
Bugs Crawling out of People - 2004
Axc_Labs
AXC - 2004 (Collaboration with Detritus)
Hivewantsyouto Fuck
Hive Records - 2004
15 Minutes Into The Future
Das Bunker - 2004 (cover of Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F)
Saturation Bombing 2
TiK - 2004
Sequence Or Die Vol.2
Brainchaos - 2003
Maschinenfest '03
Pflichtkauf - 2003 (listed as "opr01IPK")
Daruma
Ant-Zen - 2003
Saturation Bombing
TIK - 2003
D-Side 14
D-Side - 2003
Words Becoming
Flesh Made Word - 2002
Sub-Snow 02-02
Ad Noiseam - 2002
Great White Noise
Departure Productions - 2001
Maschinenfest '01
Pflichtkauf - 2001
• Gothsicles . Second Album Means It's Too Late To Change Your Band Name (Iszoloscope Remix)discography // remixes:
Sega Lugosi's Dead [WTII Records - 2009]
Origins Unfold [Origins Productions - 2009]
Broken Beats For Broken Hearts [Hive Records - 2008]
The Fine Art Of Killing Yourself [N/A - 2007]
Reworks2: Friendly Fire [Vail Records - 2007]
nBoyde raRepi [Hive Records - 2007]
Booze Up And Riot "SPECIAL edition" [Crunch Pod Media - 2007]
Drunken, Crazy, With A Gun [Invasion Wreckchords - 2006]
exit ..72 [Out Of Line - 2005]
You Are My All And More [Crunch Pod Media - 2005]
C o l l e c t : E r a s e [Hive Records - 2005]
Vertical Mixes [Metropolis Records - 2005]
ABSCOND: The Abandon Remixes [NXA records - 2005]
Sequance or Die vol. 2.8 [Brainchaos - 2005]
Sequance or Die vol. 2.8 [Brainchaos - 2005]
Univers Carcéral [Divine Comedy Records - 2005]
Das Leberwurstbrot [Invasion Wreck Chords - 2004]
Next to Departed [Frozen Empire Media - 2004]
Voluble [Independent - 2004]
[Divine Comedy - 2004]
10 Years of Bat Vibez [Hands - 2003]
[Credited as "Iscoloscope"]
• Pneumatic Detach . Meth (Silent House remix)
Pareses Re:Infected [Hive Records - 2003]
Implicit Structures [Frozen Empire Media - 2002]
Promo [Self-released - 2002]ocular media
Iszoloscope
encyclopedia:
Altered State of Consciousness (ASC)
An isoloscope is a theoretical measuring device that would monitor the degree of isolation of a subject during a sensory deprivation experiment using a data-set from various physiological sources (heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, electroencephalography, etc).
L'Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise)
This non-spacial liminal threshold.
Cosmology
This 1913 Futurist manifesto you might haven't heard of was arguably one of the most important and influential texts in 20th century musical aesthetics.
The Doors of Perception
The study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it.
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP)
1954 essay by Aldous Huxley intellectualizing and detailing his experiences with mescaline.
Fallacies
Popularized by Konstantin Raudive in 1971, EVPs are sections of static noise on a recording that are interpreted as voices (often believed to belong to ghosts or spirits). A tragically great example of apophenia in popular culture, still a very fascinating by its nature.
The Ghost in the Machine (ostensible haunting frequency)
The whole "argument" experience dissected by Dr. Michael C. Labossiere. This is an absolute must of the internet experience!
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Research by the late Vic Tandy, lecturer at Coventry University, suggesting that subsonic frequencies are responsible for many ghost sightings. In my opinion, this is the most important, if not the only credible scientific discovery (I mean, actual real science) regarding this phenomena since Houdini's work debunking spiritualists in the 1920s.
Isolation tank
The truly amazing world of scientific and philosophic possibilities brought forth by our understanding of quantum mechanics.
K Foundation
One of Iszoloscope's original influences. Invented by John C. Lilly in 1954 in order to test the effects of sensory deprivation.
The Power of Myth
The elaborate continuation of the KLF's work after their "flamboyant" (reads "fuckyou") retirement from the music industry: Burning money, cryptic newspaper adds, K Foundation art award for "worst artist of the year" and various other acts of music industry sabotage... project on hold until 2013.
The Problem With Music
A book and six part television documentary of conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers. Uniquely inspiring and emancipating, one of my personal favorites of all time!
Psychedelia
A milestone article by Steve Albini written in 1993 for "The Baffler", vol. 5 and reprinted in "Maximum RocknRoll" #133. This is dated but perfectly reflects how the music industry still operates and offers a great insight of why blaming every single problem that this industry faces on MP3s is just absurd!
The Psychedelic Experience
The creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters and the sea of new perspectives that immerses one self by inward optics.
Refus Global
A book by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert documenting their interpretation of the parallels between the psychedelic experience and the Bardo Thodol.An anti-establishment and anti-religious manifesto released on August 9, 1948 in Montreal. According to many historians, the original trigger of the social revolution that happened in Quebec in the 50ies and 60ies (the reason it is not a third world colony anymore). Thus, probably the only relevant counter-cultural document to come from this neck of the woods before it engulfed itself in the cognitive void of an homogenized popular culture.encyclopedia // artistic currents:
Categorizing "sub-sub-genres" downstream from the post-indutrial and electronic music currents from the 80ies and 90ies is pretty much impossible and results are often ridiculous at best. With that in mind, here is my humble offer of some educated direction. A collection of Wikipedia articles enough people have agreed upon to be, in my opinion, culturally (or sub-culturally) relevant:
Dark Ambient Music"Breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. It adheres to a loose set of stylistic rules." Iszoloscope is even mentioned in this article.
Experimental Music"[...] A subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones." Iszoloscope is also mentioned in this article.
Industrial music"is apt, providing it is understood not as descriptive of an act to be later judged in terms of success or failure, but simply as of an act the outcome of which is unknown (John Cage 1961, 13)" [...] "In a broader sense, it is also used to mean any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is."
Musique concrèteThis is the most complete and comprehensive definition I have found... oh and this one is not completely fallacious (in contrast to most ill informed posts on online forums and bizarre (reads "idiotic") articles I've come across over the last couple of years).
Noise music"is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sonorities derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as 'musical'".
Rhythmic Noise
"is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically generated noise, randomly produced electronic signals, and non-traditional musical instruments. Noise music may also incorporate manipulated recordings, static, hiss and hum, feedback, live machine sounds, custom noise software, circuit bent instruments, and non-musical vocal elements that push noise towards the ecstatic.""is a fusion genre among noise music and various styles of electronic dance music." Again, Iszoloscope is mentioned in this article.collaborators:
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