dscrd
a.k.a. Discordance
dscrd is a five-piece performance act born in Paris in 2008, oscillating between inconsistent states and controlled patterns. Complex rhythms collide with improvised sound objects, in search of a sound-designed, beautifully imperfect trance.
The band came up through the Paris noise scene of the 2010s. Its first EP was the first release on Dement3d, then came the twelfth act of the Monad series on Stroboscopic Artefacts. Sound design, instrument building and audio software run through all of it, from club sets to installations.
- Aymeric Nunge
- Matthieu Gayon
- Romain Mascagni
- Thomas Goguelin
- Pierre Triscos
Records
Dement3d
Stroboscopic Artefacts
Various
Listen
Live
ARMA17, AUXMoscow, 20121:02:32
Strichka Festival, CloserKyiv, 20141:01:06
Concrete, full setParis, 20141:30:17
New MorningParis, 20111:06:18
Fonderie de l'ImageBagnolet, 20121:18:32
CyclotronOrsay, 20121:00:26
Social ClubParis, 201147:42
Unknown46:59
20ft Radio, with Vadim GriboedovKyiv, 20171:08:18
Tracks
- MaskinenMonad XII, Stroboscopic Artefacts
- Apparition HillV, Stroboscopic Artefacts
- L'Envers des Clefs (Lucy Remix)Remixes EP, Dement3d
- Watch and PunishPanopticon EP, Dement3d
- GrapheneMonad XII, Stroboscopic Artefacts
- AedificareStellate 4, Stroboscopic Artefacts
- ClosureMonad XII, Stroboscopic Artefacts
- CombinatMonad XII, Stroboscopic Artefacts
- L'Envers Des Clefs IDiscordance EP, Dement3d
- ExactionX EP, Subself
- Poly Dichroic EuthimalSilicate
- Odei: Kumo (DSCRD Remix)Moï Moï
Mixes and samplers
Elsewhere
Audiovisual live show
Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk, 21.08.2014With filmmaker Marie de Maricourt, on repurposed CCTV material. Same night: Murcof, Sendai, Miles Whittaker, Dalhous.
RA review Stray Landings interview
Persistence of Sound
360m3, Lyon, 19.04 to 12.05.2013An evolving instrument, played by a wave travelling through metal plates, reacting to the presence, then the actions, of visitors. Nuits Sonores Extra!
Programme note Journal du Design
Структура № 12. Триединство
Moscow, 2012Sculpture and interactive sound installation with Anna Nanuda. III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.
Biennial Foundation
Press
Records
Productions that occasionally feel like a modern take on the menacing aesthetic of Pan Sonic and Scorn.
Brian Kolada, Resident Advisor, 2014
One of the more distinctive recent electronic releases is Dscrd’s Panopticon, which consciously breaks some of the conventions of electronic music.
Alexei Monroe, Trebuchet, 2014
Their latest EP is nothing short of brilliant, littered with a myriad of intriguing moods and ideas, executed with phenomenal production.
Georgie McVicar, Stray Landings, 2014
Paris’s DSCRD bring music as experimental as their contribution to SA’s Monad series, though their languid tempos stuff the music with delicious dread.
Jordan Rothlein, Resident Advisor, 2013
Dscrd have done a commendable job at making music both frightening for what it possibly reveals, and enjoyable for the audible level of skill invested in it.
Thomas Bey William Bailey, 2014
Bloc de poésie noire, rugueuse et crasseuse dont on ne sort pas tout à fait indemne.
Akitrash, Hartzine, 2014The Dscrd five-headed hydra closes this demonstrative display of power with the menacing ‘Apparition Hill’.
Inverted Audio, 2014
Live
Ihr Set war eine Überraschung in Sachen Abstraktion, wo zwar in den Zwischenräumen Andeutung von Industrial, Techno, Dub und Drone zu finden waren, doch gerade als Einheit waren die 60 Minuten zutiefst einnehmend.
Sebastian Weiß, Groove, Berlin Atonal 2014Normally mundane CCTV footage; images of life passing by – traffic intersections, bored stylists in hair salons, panoramic shots of smaller city skylines […] rolled by as DSCRD’s set moved from minimal and broken to full and undulating.
Juno Daily, Berlin Atonal 2014
The truth is, Dscrd function as a hive-mind – their answers to my questions were not delineated as one person over another, but as a single 5-letter unit: Dscrd.
Georgie McVicar, Stray Landings, Berlin Atonal 2014
Nurse With Wound, Diamond Version et DSCRD nous laissèrent bouche bée, abasourdi par leur live expérimental plein de caractère et de maîtrise.
Clément Camenen, Lyon Capitale, Nuits Sonores 2013Une descente dans le dédale mental d’une musique sensorielle et psychédélique…
Input Selector, Social Club 2011Scene
We were amazed by their music and the idea of a label became all the more obvious.
François X, Dement3d, to TEA, 2013
Quand on a la chance de découvrir le talent brut de dscrd et d’avoir leurs premiers morceaux entre les mains, la décision de monter un label se prend assez rapidement…
Heartbeat, Dement3d, to Input Selector, 2013The lineage of Ligovskoï, Voiski, and DSCRD can be traced back to Silicate Musique.
The Quietus, 2014
This is mostly owed to Polar Inertia and DSCRD, whose intriguing electronics make up the first half of the label’s catalogue.
Steph Lee on Dement3d, Resident Advisor, 2016
Further reading
- D S C R D : InterviewAlexei Monroe, Trebuchet
- Inside the PanopticonTheo Darton-Moore, Stray Landings
- Secret Thirteen Mix 128Profile and mix, Secret Thirteen
- Panopticon EPArmando Valdés, Secret Thirteen
- Berlin Atonal 2014Holly Dicker, Resident Advisor
- Persistence of SoundJournal du Design
- Monad XIISubsekt, archived
Dates
2026
Panke Berlin DE Ultrabooth, with Errorsmith, Voiski
Blockhaus DY10 Nantes
2023
La Station - Gare des Mines Paris
2019
Cyberrance Romainville Baleapop Saint-Jean-de-Luz
2018
Farbfernseher Berlin DE
Le Pavillon des Canaux Paris
Phonetics Algiers DZ
Plivka Kyiv UA Модуль7
2016
La Machine du Moulin Rouge Paris with Voices From The Lake
La Gaîté Lyrique Paris Dement3d Label Night
La Gaîté Lyrique Paris
2015
Zoo Geneva CH Arena Club Berlin DE
2014
Concrete Paris two hours
Concrete Paris with Lucy, Pfirter
Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk Berlin DE A/V with Marie de Maricourt
La Machine du Moulin Rouge Paris with Ben Frost
Strichka Festival, Closer Kyiv UA
Glazart Paris with Demdike Stare
2013
Petit Bain Paris Dement3d Label Night
Les Siestes Électroniques Toulouse
Nuits Sonores, Le Transbordeur Lyon
La Machine du Moulin Rouge Paris with Alva Noto
Cergy
Bootleg Bordeaux
2012
La Machine du Moulin Rouge Paris Géante Rouge Paris Social Club Paris ARMA17 Moscow RU La Fabrique à Rêves Saint-Denis Plunk Club Moscow RU Forest party Kyiv area UA Cinéma Le Balzac Paris La Fonderie de l'Image Bagnolet Université d'Orsay Orsay Lab Combinat Kyiv UA
2011
New Morning Paris with Moritz von Oswald Trio
Alter Café Nantes
Le 6b Saint-Denis
Atelier Baleine Pantin
Salon Nyctalope Tours
Le Générateur Gentilly
Social Club Paris with Shackleton, Lucy
Social Club Paris with Sandwell District, Surgeon
2010
Octal40 Ivry-sur-Seine Festival Visa Perpignan Atelier Baleine Pantin Le Trabendo Paris Les Disquaires Paris Little Bastard Paris Batofar Paris Studios de l'Olivier Vanves-Malakoff