- Giulio Nocera / revox b77, laptop, amplified objects
- Renato Grieco / no-input mixing board, microphones, speakers
Les énervés is a neapolitan electroacustic duo formed by the radical improviser Renato Grieco (KNN) and Giulio Nocera, producer and composer with a background in theatre and cinema. The duo is dedicated to the most radical sound research, looking both to the electro-acoustic French masters as to the Japanese noisy improvisers, with a particular interest for the issues of the contemporary electronic music.
Tapes recorders, complex systems of feedback, amplified objects, field recordings and extreme digital treatments, all played strictly live to bring back the sound to its wild state. Beyond the instruments (which can be of every sort), their attempt is to build an attitude to invent, to evocate something and keep it up in the air. The resulting sound is a complex and layered organic gasp that seems to evoke the memory of a buried civilization or the invasion of a bunch of monkeys in the ruins of a gigantic center of radio communications. Their landscapes, though animated by myriads of micro-events, have something of desertic and Kafkaesque.
