Guerilla theatre. May contain actual gorilla.

January 31, 2013 2:21 PM

Founded in 1999 and quickly winning over theatre critics and audiences alike, Abattoir Fermé is an avant-garde collective that was awarded the 2008 Flemish Culture Prize for its "penetrating and ominous theatre."

From a focus in its early days on productions that dealt with the dark underside of society, developing works inspired by gothicism, taboos, counter-cuture and outsider art, Abattoir Fermé is still working on new performances and projects today [some links possibly NSFW] .

Three hours of music from 4 out of 5 of their 'silent pieces', composed by Pepijn Caudron aka Kreng, was recently made available for streaming by Norwegian label Miasmah.

Works for Abattoir Fermé 2007 - 2011 evokes "a similar mood that Alan R. Splet and David Lynch achieved in 'Eraserhead' or Howard Shore in 'Videodrome'."

posted by urbanwhaleshark (2 comments total)

Sort of felt compelled to make a comment, or add favourite (I'm profligate with those things).
And Chrome absolutely will not even open the FPP linked page...am enjoying the YT video though.
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 8:52 PM on January 31

Nice post -- I'm a big fan of Kreng. Works for Abattoir Fermé is fantastic stuff; it expands upon the whole "dark ambient" thing by adding ample acoustic elements to the usual electronic palette.
posted by Frobenius Twist at 8:21 AM on February 3