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The "Placard" festival - interview with Erik Minkkinen

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"Placard" in french means cupboard, and that's the best comparison you can find with the parisians "maid's room" which are basically a bedroom with everything inside (bed, kitchen...) on the last floor of a building, just under the roof. With an average of 9 to 12 square meters, these places are rented as a real flat, often to students but also to anybody who can't afford the incredible price of the parisians flat. And that's where the first edition of the "Placard" festival took place in 1999! That's how it was born, and of course it wasn't the ideal place for a big sound system so the festival could welcome 6 people and they could enjoy the sound with headphones for 72 hours non stop.
Listening to the sound with headphones wasn't just due to a technical issue though. It goes with Erik Minkkinen's ideas of the festival. Erik is the creator of the Placard and that maid's room was actually his room, which became a workshop and even hosted the first edition of the festival. Erik cl
early lives in a subculture which he is reinventing at the same time. Naming that subculture can quickly become a tough game but words like world wide web, internet relay chat, electronica, streaming, apple laptop, webcam, web design, record label... would definitely be part of the tags. The ideas
behind the "Placard" are based on that subculture; at the time of the first "Placard" it was not very common to find people making some electronic experimental music so setting up a festival to promote this and meeting new people was not the easy business of that time. So musicians and public (often
the same people) had to be very volunteer and had to be ready to do unpredictable efforts to set up the show or even to get to the show. For instance at the first "Placard" only 6 people could be in the room at the same time, the others had to wait at the bar downstairs until someone leaves the roo
m! And the other main idea is the intimacy that headphones give between the musician and the public, it's not a matter of playing loud here, but you're rather giving your sound directly to someone, like a gift. And when someone takes a pair of headphones it means someone else has to wait if no other
headphones are free at the moment so you can't be passive here like in a traditional concert with loudspeakers where it doesn't matter if you're listening or not, here you are an active listener. In the video you will see how the "Placard" looks like in its 9th edition, Erik will explain how we go
t here from the first "Placard" with the evolutions that took place like how it started as a 72 hours non stop festival and is now lasting 3 months. You'll see Jan Zimmermann recording vinyls in live! Jan has an incredible knowledge about the process of recording vinyls, he is making some experiment
al recordings by using the vinyl's sonic pecularities. Along with some performances including a guitar performance with Erik. The festival is in a different place every year, this time it was @ "La Generale", a kind of squatt in Paris, a huge place which is hosting different projects.

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wonderfull autistic ... ( 1 year ago by krybn)

wonderfull autistic sound festival thx to Jan zimmerman ! & EM

mmh - wonderful ... ( 1 year ago by pomodorox)

mmh - wonderful work erik.... so what do we do - of course thinking of doing a placard together... so thrilling... so luxurious... so generous.... love gli pomidori

hello, greetings ... ( 1 year ago by marsiana)

hello, greetings from tijuana, mexico. We are very interested in participating in your festival. Cheers from Discos Invisibles

nice to read that! ... ( 1 year ago by bastienazylum)

nice to read that! you can go to leplacard dot org and set up a festival by yourself or participate in an already exisiting festival!

we are already ... ( 1 year ago by marsiana)

we are already programed for august 18th :) El Lazo Invisible is one of our projects. But as we where saying to bjorn, we hope this is just the beginning of our colaborations. Cheers! Nacho & Mars

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