Yannick Franck was born in 1981 in Belgium. He is an electronic musician, a sound artist and a vocalist. He operates as a solo act (as Raum and MT Gemini) and in duos Orphan Swords and Figure Section. He is the main animator and art director of the Antibody label, which he founded in 2021.
For the past fifteen years, he has explored territories such as electroacoustic music, noise, synthpop, industrial music and experimental techno.
For the past fifteen years, he has explored territories such as electroacoustic music, noise, synthpop, industrial music and experimental techno.
His most notable records are:
-Hierophany, an abrasive sonic rendition of an introspective journey in the guts of Moscow. It was released in 2012 on now defunct russian label Monochrome Vision.
-Just Like A River (as MT Gemini), a pataphysical, unapologetically experimental revisitation of early Ska and Rocksteady. Released in 2019 on Sub Rosa, the album was defined as “remarkable” by Steve Barker in The Wire Magazine and figured in their yearly Dub music top 10.
-Conjurer (as Raum), which was released in 2021 on legendary Berlin dark techno label Aufnahme +Wiedergabe.
-Montsalvatsche (as Raum). Released in 2022 on Antibody, it explores several themes from the arthurian cycle within a raw industrial yet radically anti-cliche aesthetic. He considers it to be his most singular work to date.
Having studied visual arts and worked frequently as a composer at the service of other disciplines (film, performance, theatre and contemporary dance). He has given numerous seminars, masterclasses and workshops on sound and its relationship with visual arts, performing arts and film.
Notably at ESRA (École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) where he regularly intervenes. More recently, he created a live soundtrack for Benjamin Christensen's film Häxan, witchcraft through the ages (1922) at the Cinémathèque du Luxembourg and has created a ritualistic audiovisual performance called The Rising, with his long term collaborator Gast Bouschet.
He previously ran Idiosyncratics label, which was dedicated to sonic and musical research.
