FRED DEBIEF

Your favourite virtue ::
spontaneity...which is also probably my bigger defect...

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
simplicity...but not too much

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
complexity...but not too much

Your favourite occupation ::
being lost in sounds, images, texts, women, friends...were i can forget me a while

Your idea of happiness ::
feeling alive

Your idea of misery ::
feeling alive

If not yourself, who would you be ::
no one else...just myself...but...better

Where would you like to live ::
here were are i'm not

Your favourite colour and flower ::
every colour can be my favourite depending on where and how...but what i prefer is "the in-between", the nuances of the palette...the idea of infinite contained in the colours...
i don't like flowers...maybe i'd say the cactus flowers, because they have the decency to be seldom shown, in that way, they're more intimate than others...

Your favourite prose authors ::
Celine, Queneau, Beckett, Kafka, Dostoïevski, Prigent, Gombrowicz, Huysmans, Burroughs...

Your favourite poets ::
Pélieu, Artaud, Baudelaire, Messagier, Pasolini...

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Patrick MacGohan - N°6 in The Prisoner

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Jessica Lange in King Kong, Deborah Unger in Crash, Béatrice Dalle in Trouble everyday

Your favourite painters and composers ::
painters : Bacon, Viera Da Silva, Schiele, Richter…
Composers : Bach, Dutilleux, Rachmaninov, Parmegiani, Debussy, Messiaen…

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Massoud the afghan, Yasser Arafat, the palestinian people...

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
the women i've loved, i love, i'll love

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
Too much to list them...to resume, but it's not a character, i'd say The United Nation...or how a wonderful idea is transformed in the most hypocrit and innefficiant monster...

Your favourite food and drink ::
chocolate, potatoes, apricots, coffee, red wine, pontarlier, white meal, sole, zucchinis, aubergines, tomatos, garlic, onions, canelle, cardamome, minth...

Your favourite names ::
intimity : Aloïs and Garance (my kids)
World : the ones i can't pronouce properly

Your pet aversion ::
birds in cages

The reform which you most estimate ::
the paid-leaves (congés payés)

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
the ability to live only with love and fresh water

How I would like to die ::
long time : in peace with myself (quite impossible)
short time : while having sex (quite selfish)

What is your present state of mind ::
past, present, future state of mind : from very low to ultra high in a few days, hours, minutes, seconds...

For what fault have you most toleration ::
greediness in all its acceptances

Your favourite motto ::
do not push granny in the nettles

12 septembre 2006

Fred DeBief is musician and visual artist. he is actually living in Besançon.

Website :: fdbf
WebBlog :: fdbf

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.

ANTON CHERKASOV

Your favorite virtue ::
hm... maybe, i can see beauty, where other can't see it.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
ability to communicate; ability to be friends; ability to love.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
ability to communicate; ability to be friends; ability to love.

Your favourite occupation ::
to create something.

Your idea of happiness ::
to like what you creating.

Your idea of misery ::
can't to excuse.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
lee "scratch" perry.

Where would you like to live ::
paris, tokyo, new york.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
green. wildflowers.

Your favourite prose authors ::
j.d. salinger. f.m. dostoevsky.

Your favourite poets ::
r.m. rilke.

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
holden caulfield. tyler durden.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
holly golightly. patty diphusa.

Your favourite painters and composers ::
painters: breughel. dagmar schenk-gullcih.
composers: they are many of them. i can't single out someone.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
jesus. charles chaplin. yury gagarin.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
mary magdalen. marilyn monroe. my mother.

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
lenin. stalin. hitler. bush.

Your favourite food and drink ::
food: meat, bread, vegetables, fruit.
drink: spring water, mineral water, juice.

Your favourite names ::
my favorite names are my names: "anton" and "holden".
also i like many from female names.

Your pet aversion ::
rats :D but seriously, i dislike some of insects - cockroatchs, spiders and etc.

The reform which you most estimate ::
to establish a monarchy in russian federation.

The gift of the nature which i would like to have ::
always to be awake.
How i would like to die ::
beautiful and quick.

What is your present state of mind ::
activity.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
usage of light drugs.

Your favourite motto?
per aspera ad astra

13 septembre 2006

Anton Cherkasov is a musician, coordinator of TheRatHole project. He is actually living in Nizhni Novgorod and likes to do live air concerts on the Volga riverside.

website :: therathole

:: Этот портрет основан на первоначально "вопроснике Marcel Proust", созданном Антоинетте Фауре вокруг 1890

KENJI SIRATORI

Your favourite virtue ::
Mind virus in post-industrial culture.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Death explosion.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
The womb thinking.

Your favourite occupation ::
Listening to our lives.

Your idea of happiness ::
Fragility.

Your idea of misery ::
A receiver of our lives.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Our lives as the death host.

Where would you like to live ::
Spiritual struggle space.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Primary colours and a sunflower.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Georges Bataille.

Your favourite poets ::
Antonin Artaud.

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Francis Bacon.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Vincent van Gogh.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Camille Claudel.

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
Douglas MacArthur.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Fermented soybeans and green tea.

Your favourite names ::
HIV.

The reform which you most estimate ::
Surrealism.

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Sunrise.

How I would like to die ::
Nerve explosion.

What is your present state of mind ::
To function as a space like virus itself.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Compulsory education.

Your favourite motto ::
Life is noise.

"And also I will release a special album CD from Old Europa Cafe in next month.
OECD 088 NORDVARGR / BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE vs. KENJI SIRATORI - HYPERGENOME666 - 2xCD
Subtitles :
NORDVARGR vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Antimaterial: Tragedy Rom Creature
BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Substance : Sympathy Cell Waves

This will be for sure the more surprising release for 2006 in the ambient-dark-industrial field!

This 2 great scandiniavian dark-industrial projects leaded by MZ.412 members are here making an excursion in KENJI SIRATORI acid world made of encrusted blood & samen, made by all the information in the universe plus several bits from other dimensions!

"KENJI is surely a madman, but if you scan his hallucinatory textual mashups in the right frame of mind, they all begin to make sense!!!" - Douglas Rushkoff

"KENJI SIRATORI doesn't just describe a chaotic and disturbing future world of man-machine-chaos, he inhabits that world and reports from the front line in that hybrid language. A mesmerizing mantra
as well as a technical manual on a possible evolution of our species." - Randy Greif

Kenji gave birth to a virulent amalgam of modern technology & illnes like a mix of Tetsuo the Iron Man & a modern version of William Burrougs cut-ups!

& his "Blood Electric" book (Creation Books) was aclaimed by DAVID BOWIE!

On the 2 albums NORDVARGR & BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE are creating best dark ambients, for which both projects are very well reknown, to support Kenji vocals frames !

Japanese words disgorged by Kenji Siratori are here strongly entwined in the chaotic calmness of BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE's audio universe & in the deepest sounds born in the surgery of Nordvargr's villa Bohult ....

All song are based upon the spoken prose by the uncompromising Japanese writer, creating a new fascinating depth in the musical experience.

There will be also a special limited & numbered edition containing Kenji Siratori writings & mini CD with Kenji's own sounds !

The whole will be packed in a special box ... oldeuropacafe "

8 septembre 2006

Born in 1975, Ken Siratori is writer, he is actually living in Kashima, Japan.
With unparalleled stylistic terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack.

website :: Kenji Siratori /

PEDRO LEITÃO

Your favourite virtue ::
Ability to share/Sense of community.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Intelligence.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Intelligence.

Your favourite occupation.
Listening music.

Your idea of happiness ::
Sharing the life with the one you love.

Your idea of misery ::
Eternal loneliness.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Neil Armstrong.

Where would you like to live ::
New Zealand.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Sky Blue. Daisy.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Phillip K. Dick; Isaac Asimov; William S. Burroughs

Your favourite poets ::
Fernando Pessoa. Yeats. Luis de Camões.

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Batman, The Caped Crusader; Don Quixote; Sherlock Holmes; Donald Duck

Your favourite heroines in fiction.
Cassiopeia; Berenice; Captain Ripley (from the Alien movies)

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Painters: Paul Klee; Kandinsky; Paula Rego; Dali; Edward Hopper; Jasper Johns.
Composers: Stravinsky; John Cage; Zia Mohiuddin Dagar; John Lennon.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Christopher Reeve; Dalai Lama; Timothy Leary; Jesus of Nazareth; Nelson Mandela. Saint Francis of Assissi.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Jeanne D’Arc: Helen of Troy; Mary Magdalen; Calamity Jane; Frid Kahlo.

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
Kim Jong Il. The Bush Family (All of them). Stalin. Mussolini. De Richelieu.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Food: Swordfish; Cod; Chicken; Rice and Pasta; Salads.
Drink: Water; Red Wine; Tea; Milk.

Your favourite names ::
Xavier (My Son’s name); Beatrice; Chloe; Vladimir.

Your pet aversion ::
Birds. It’s just mean and stupid to keep birds in cages.

The reform which I estimate most estimate ::
Total disarmament. Shutdown of gun factories everywhere.

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
To fly.

How I would like to die ::
In my sleep.

What is your present state of mind ::
Calm.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Ignorance.

Your favourite motto ::
Love wins everything.

4 septembre 2006

Pedro Leitão, 32 years old, married with a 3 months old son named Pedro Xavier, is coordinator of Test tube netlabel (founded in July 2004), part of monocromatica networks. He is living in Portugal.

Website :: test tube

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.

ROB LYNAM

Your favourite virtue ::
Well if this means a quality in myself that I like the most, I think it would have to be my perception in general. I'm a strong believer that 'beauty lies in the eye of the beholder' and it's what we bring to the various things we interact with, that makes them what they are (to us at least). So of everything that is me, I am most apprecative of the ability to enjoy stuff in general.

Your favourite qualities in a man / woman ::
Bit contraversial to seperate this into genders so I'm gonna answer them as one if that's cool. I've got a lot of time for anyone who's into whatever they're doing. Anyone that's adopted a challenge of some description. There's alot of people out there being led about and not really taking the initiative to develop and realise their potential. So being motivation is a big one for me. Also along similar lines, it's nice when someone can take an interest in other people without getting too judgemental. We're all here to do what we need to do, right? Of course you're going to make judgements about the things going on around you but it's cool when you can still respect the opinions of others. Did I just contradict myself bigtime there?

Your favourite occupation ::
Being lazy with friends whenever I have the opportunity. kicking back every so often, catching up and sharing ideas is what keeps me fuelled for everything else.

Your idea of happiness ::
Being fit and healthy, surrounded by the people I respect and able to get on with stuff.

Your idea of misery ::
Working in McDonalds.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
David Icke 'The Lizard King', or perhaps not!
I think I'd be a Bond villain. I fancy having my own island to scheme from.

Where would you like to live ::
Aside from the island mentioned in the previous answer, where I am in Brighton (UK) works for me at the moment. I could see myself getting a little more rural though as communication infrastructure continues to advance.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
In regards to colour, Proust got it right in saying it's not about single colours but their combinations. Blue and Yellow on white is good.
Can't really answer the flower one I'm afraid, I'm devoid of an opinion there.)

Your favourite prose authors ::
Best two books I've read recently were 'Techno Rebels' by Dan Sicko and 'All Crews' by Brian Belle-Fortune. There's a lot of good stuff in the first issue of Bad Idea magazine too. (Cough, www.badidea.co.uk) - can I get away with that?

Your favourite poets ::
No idea. My friend 'Foof' showed me one she's written the other day but other than that I can't even think of any. Not so cultured huh?

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Ferris Bueller and Agent Cooper from Twin peaks.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Veronica Pendexter

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Let's just do the current favourites shall we or this could go on forever?
Visual: Ian Francis, Aya Kato, Brendan Monroe, Fthr, Branislav Kropilak, Michael England and the impending threat that is Krookedfingers.
Audible: Andy Stott, Aphilas, Brothomstates, Deaf Center, Gramm, Julien Neto, Marc Leclair, Marconi Union, Trent Reznor, Nostalgia 77, Sabi, Shuttle 358.

Your favourite heroes/heroines in real life ::
All my friends past, present and future for everything they bring to the mix.

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
As long as yesturday counts as history I'm chosing George Bush, possibly the single biggest fool who ever walked the earth.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Anything that I'm not actually intolerant to (which isn't a whole lot).

Your favourite names ::
'Ralph Spatz' and 'Norman Dormant'

Your pet aversion :: (pet hate)
I can't deal with the sound of anything scraping against ice, it's like my equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. I flee the kitchen when anyone opens the freezer.

The reform which I estimate most estimate :: 

(the change I would like the most, right?)
Well world peace would be nice, so perhaps we could make a start by having a little more respect for each other.

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
To only sleep when I want to and never because I have to. Time is the enemy.

How I would like to die ::
Not too old (but not too soon either please). Able to look back comfortably at all I have achieved in my time.

What is your present state of mind ::
Slightly overwhelmed and anxious but holding it down (I think).

For what fault have you most toleration ::
I'm a bit of a hermit and should get out more but I like it too much here in my little bubble.

Your favourite motto ::
"Wait until they look away, then we'll leg it"

6 septembre 2006

Rob Lynam is co-editor of the free quarterly PDF magazine, Multilink.
He is 25 years old and currently living in Brighton, UK

Website :: multilink magazine