DAFAKE
Antoine Marroncles, composing music under the synonym DAFAKE, is a French experimental musician, sound artist and film composer based in Paris. Creating minimalist electro-acoustic pieces from a range of experimental recording techniques, DIY instrumentation and unseen sound sources such as feedback loops, corrupted data and electromagnetic fields processed and recomposed through a modular system.
Antoine has released a string of self-released albums over the past 2 years, as well as a recent collaboration with experimental cassette label Histamine Tapes. Antoine’s work is often processed based, utilising his array of unusual signal sources, to use as the building blocks for contemplative improvised drones. Pairing maximal washes of synthesis with insistent micro sounds captured from field recordings and recordings or electromagnetic fields.
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The Seaphone
The Seaphone is an omnidirectional microphone developed from a geophone element. The resulting microphone is extremely sensitive and can be used to capture very faint sounds. It is equally useful in nature, capturing sounds in the soil, sand and rock, as it is in an urban enviroment, recording steel bridges and industrial machinery. Utiling the included magnet, suction cup or ground spike you can affix the mic to a varity of surfaces. Due to the capsules intended purpose it captures low frequency sound extremely well, and creates unique recordings unlike any other sensor.
Due to demand for a waterproof version we have developed the original Earthphone into a Hydrophone (the Seaphone), allowing you to expand your low frequency sound hunting to the rivers, lakes and streams.
No phantom power is required.
We offer a variety of cable lenghts and a discount on a pair, please see dropdown menu below.
<These are currently made to order and may take up to 1 weeks to ship>
Directivity: Omnidirectional
Frequency response: 10 – 1000+ Hz
Impedance: 3500 Ω
Resonant frequency: 15 Hz
Cable: 2 m, robust polyurethane jacket, shielded
Output: XLR-3M balanced (can be converted to 3.5mm jack by request)
Dimensions & Weight: 92 mm x 42 mm, 350 g (including the cable and the magnet) The Earthphone
The Earthphone
The Earthphone is a microphone developed from a geophone element. The resulting microphone is extremely sensitive and can be used to capture very faint sounds. It is equally useful in nature, capturing sounds in the soil, sand and rock, as it is in an urban enviroment, recording steel bridges and industrial machinery. Utiling the included magnet, suction cup or ground spike you can affix the mic to a varity of surfaces. Due to the capsules intended purpose it captures low frequency sound extremely well, and creates unique recordings unlike any other sensor.
No phantom power is required.
<These are currently made to order and may take up to 1 weeks to ship>
Directivity: Omnidirectional
Frequency response: 10 – 1000+ Hz
Impedance: 3500 Ω
Resonant frequency: 15 Hz
Cable: 2 m, robust polyurethane jacket, shielded
Output: XLR-3M balanced (can be converted to 3.5mm jack by request)
Dimensions & Weight: 87 mm x 35.5 mm, 250 g (including the cable and the magnet)
Friction Idiophone Mark I
A compact Cristal Baschet for studios, stages, and travelling composers
This instrument is a 2-octave (C3–C5) friction idiophone, based on the principles of the Cristal Baschet — an electroacoustic instrument developed in the 1950s by Bernard and François Baschet. Sound is produced by rubbing glass rods with moistened fingertips, with vibrations transmitted through an aluminium and stainless steel frame to create sustained, harmonically rich tones.
Designed for composers, sound designers, and studios, this desktop-format model offers the expressive range of the Cristal Baschet in a more accessible and portable form. Its streamlined construction makes it a practical, cost-conscious option for exploring this distinctive sound world without the scale and expense of a full-sized instrument.
Each instrument is built to order. Please consult the FAQ before placing a request.
Technical Specifications:
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Range: C3–C5 (2 octaves)
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Weight: approx. 9 kg
- Dimensions: L 600 mm × D 210 mm × H 350 mm
<These are currently made to order and may take up to 6 weeks to ship, please email us to discuss variations to design, tuning and resonators>
James Benning (B. 1942) is an American filmmaker known for his experimental observational/documentary film. Exploring both nature and the built environment, utilising durational static shots. James Benning is known for his use of structuralist techniques in his films. Structuralism as a film movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and explores the formal elements of cinema, such as shot composition, editing, and sound, and the ways in which these elements can be used to create meaning. Benning works with long static shots, presented in real time, asking the viewer to inhabit the world of the film, through quiet and still contemplation.
Benning is a significant influence of my work as a musician, championing similar durational ideas of inhabitation of intangible media, while also exploring stillness and quiet as compositional devices. This work pays tribute to the film I have most deeply connected with ’Ten Skies’, rescoring the film from Benning with an earthy minimalist soundtrack.
The piece was performed as layered improvisations, on Flue pipes, contact miced slate and a chordophone of the artist design. These improvisations were then processed and underscored with the addition of test equipment derived oscillating sine waves.
James Benning - Ten Skies (Jacob Calland Rescore) from Discreet Archive on Vimeo.
Jacob Calland, After James Benning, DA03, 2023
Field recordings from Nîmes are combined with sparse piano, re-pitched viol de gamba, sine wave resonances and percussion to create a sound world exploring overlapping and unreal spaces. The works are intended to be interacted with as a space, to be indulged in rather than listened to in a linear fashion. Slow/quiet, turn it down.
Luc, a musician and luthier, explores Ideas of stillness, quiet and unreal space through their work, presenting sound as object, manipulating sonic materiality.
René is a playwright, musician, pie thief and is currently breathing the green air on uncilivilsation.
All proceeds of this album will be donated to Amnesty International
Luc Virilio and Rene Virilio, 43.8374, 4.35351, DA02, 2022
This album recorded in the mountains of north Wales, utilises homemade Metallophones of the artists design, and varied extended percussion technique, performed as free improvisations. These performances were then digitally recomposed with the addition of synthesis into the three-part work here.
Luc explores Ideas of stillness, quiet and silence through their work, presenting sonic objects and manipulating the sonic materiality of these objects. The works are intended to be interacted with as a space, to be indulged in rather than listened to in a linear fashion.
All proceeds of this album will be donated to Amnesty International.
Luc Virilio, Outside (Articulated), DA01, 2022
We are currently seeking appropriate demos of ambient, avant, contemporary classical and sound art that fits with the ethos of Discreet Archive. Genre/Instrumentation is not of paramount importance, but please read the information page before submitting work to us.
Please use the email below to get in touch, and please provide links to streams of previously unreleased material i.e. private soundcloud links, please do not send downloads, links to wetransfer etc.
Contact email - jacobcallandva@gmail.com
We also welcome submissions of writing pertaining to sound, reviews of contemporary experimental music, graphic and text scores.