Haus für Poesie

French sound poet and artist Anne-James Chaton (Besançon, France 1970) “has developed a multipolar body of work, based on a close study of the textual materials which make up the everyday life of contemporary society”. Anne-James Chaton has published several books published by Al Dante and joined the German label Raster-Noton in 2011 with Evénements 09 and Décade published in 2012. He has given many performances in France and abroad. He has worked with the group of Dutch post-rock band The Ex and released an album, Le journaliste (2008), with the English guitarist Andy Moor, with whom he has since 2011 been developing the Transfer series of four 7” project whose album was released in 2013 on the Dutch label Unsounds. He worked on the albums Unitxt (2008) and Univrs (2011) by German artist Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. In January 2009, he created the trio Décade, with Andy Moor and Alva Noto. In 2013 he formed the trio HERETICS with Andy Moor and Thurston Moore, guitarist and singer of American band Sonic Youth. His plastic and visual works, drawn from his writing materials, have been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. Anne-James Chaton founded and co-directs the festival Sonorités in Montpellier.