12/8/2023 0 Comments Mas o menos![]() She invited me to move in her flat, that was empty after a renovation work. I met Joan a while after that, as I was moving out of my studio. Then I became a movie director, to end up building up a home studio while Guillaume Atlan from Supermanlover was living at my place. I began to buy record in my twenties and started djing soon after.Ī : I started to work very early in the advertising business. ![]() J : We both started digging the image/design before. I studied graphic design. Which came first, your collective passion for design, or music? Also at that time, we had the first idea of making the show, a long term goal we have of displaying our work as an interactive experience mixing music, light, performances, costumes, decor and most of all, lovely people! Then you had a display of our painting work and installation from Sebastian. It was a wonderful gathering of people we loved and we created an experience for them because they had to come all the way to a kind of dodgy warehouse, to enter our world through the hut. Not so many, but the one that was really marking and positioned us as artists beyond the electronic music scene was the Open Studio event we did in our workshop in Ivry ( check this video ) we were sharing with Sebastien Pascot (a kraft artist with whom we spent a year designing and building the hut,an immersive audiovisual installation part of the Totem & Tabou album project). Have you done any exhibitions of your art, and if so which one was your favorite one? Whenever we try, cause we did try to split it, it’s too much, it loses its essence. It’s that binding that makes Masomenos what it is. ![]() Sure it is, but that’s not how we thought about it. How important is for an artist to have something accompanied with their music nowadays? It’s unique and interesting, but at the same time accessible to wider groups of people. You have a very distinctive and recognizable design presence. We had to find a name, and as we just came back from Mexico, we were still using Masomenos whenever we had something to say. We just kept on. Something new emerged from that, we started exchanging ideas and having fun creating audiovisual material.Ī friend asked us to pitch a soundtrack for a brand. Well, when we first met, it was something like a mini big bang. You’ve been doing the Masomenos project for more than a decade, how did the idea come around at the first place? J: Cool, as well, Adri dropped the kids at school ) just arrived to the office, poured myself a coffee and started answering this inspiring interview. Last year, I’ve been producing a LOT of music, and now’s time for releasing, and structuring a new set. We’ve been replugging the whole studio to make it broadcastable (trying it out this sunday!), and we’re not done yet. Hi Joan and Adrien, lovely to have you here at Delayed, how’s your day so far?Ī: Cool, dropped the kids at school, but these days I feel like going to the factory. We sat down with Joan and Adrien and talked about design, the new downtempo project with Hotel Costes and of course DJing. Masomenos started a new downtempo project with infamous Hotel Costes, which will see the releases of 8 albums and 16 EPs that this exceptionally talented duo recorded with various jazz and classical musicians in the last 2 years continuing the legacy of worldwide recognized Hotel Costes series curated by Stephane Pompougnac in past. In the past, Masomenos have become known for their groovy minimal sound, but since a few months ago, the new chapter in their career has begun. Joan is a graphic designer, Adrien a movie director, together they make one of the most distinguished and recognizable designs and visuals which accompany the music they make. Over the 15 years since they’ve been active, Masomenos released dozens of EPs, several LPs and toured the world multiple times. Masomenos is a multimedia project by Joan Costes and Adrien de Maublanc. Masomenos is not just another duo on the international underground music scene.
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