Enter the Noise: Pakito Bolino + Fredox (ABON FEST 2025)

Pakito Bolino + Fredox at Bunch of Noise 2025 / Photo by Guoruishuai

In this era of fragmented and commodified information, we offer an alternative choice for those who long to find unshaped real sound, who desire true face-to-face resonance. Here, noise is everywhere, and sound does not need to be acceptable—it only needs to exist.

Pakito Bolino and Fredox Langlais are influential figures in the French underground image movement and alternative silk-screen printing scene. Both musicians, designers, and animators from Marseille and Paris, they oppose the standardization of contemporary art, advocating for original, handmade art focused on anti-traditional, fringe subjects. Through irony and collage, they explore taboos and deconstruct violence, delving into the provocative margins of the world.

Pakito Bolino, a key figure in French underground publishing, is known for his chaotic, saturated compositions inspired by underground comics, punk magazines, and Japanese Heta-Uma aesthetics. His work merges chaos, anxiety, and social critique, attempting to create a language for underground art. He co-founded the renowned publishing group Le Dernier Cri, whose silk-screen workshop located in Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, in Marseille publishes experimental artist books and posters from around the world, offering a platform for fringe artists and contrasting traditional commercial models.

Fredox Langlais, based in Paris, is a self-taught “image manipulator” and founder of the legendary graphic magazine Stronx. His collages, inspired by 1930s-60s publications, recontextualize sensitive images with irony and provoke a world of constant conflict, where industrial, medical, and military forces threaten the individual. He collaborates with Le Dernier Cri, exploring unsettling, taboo themes in his work.

Pakito Bolino at ‘A Bunch of Noise 2025’ photo by Guoruishuai
Pakito Bolino + Fredox w/ DaFa at ABON Fest 2025
Pakito Bolino + Fredox w/ DaFa at ABON Fest 2025
Pakito Bolino + Fredox w/ DaFa at ABON Fest 2025
ABON Fest 2025, photo by Smashoot
Pakito Bolino + Fredox w/ DaFa at ABON Fest 2025
ABON Fest 2025, photo by Smashoot

Noise has no ownership; it only exists in the present. No compromises, no waiting. Enter the noise, become the noise.

A Bunch of Noise is a low-budget, DIY experimental noise festival dedicated to breaking free from the art frameworks shaped by traffic and algorithms, refusing standardized or labeled art forms. We do not rely on the selection driven by online trends; instead, through real communication and discussion, we invite artists capable of evoking resonance and creating vibrations, directly bringing sound to your ears, your body, your emotions.

Noise is not just about volume or harsh sound—it is the shock that breaks through order, a challenge to the “comfort zone.” Our invited artists do not depend on traffic and data; their sounds are independent and vibrant, refusing to be bound or defined. Each performance is a challenge to the rules, a recreation and reshaping of the unknown world.

A Bunch of Noise is not just a space for sound experiments; it is a collision of emotions, an explosion of energy. Here, we seek pure sound experiences—not catering to market packaging, not relying on internet bubbles, only sound itself. There is no perfect artistic shell, only the sparks of experimentation and an unknown journey.

In this era of fragmented and commodified information, we offer an alternative choice for those who long to find unshaped real sound, who desire true face-to-face resonance. Here, noise is everywhere, and sound does not need to be acceptable—it only needs to exist.

Noise has no ownership; it only exists in the present. No compromises, no waiting. Enter the noise, become the noise.

> abunchofnoise.com


Pakito Bolino + Fredox w/ DaFa at ABON 2025 / Photo by Smashoot

A Bunch of Noise Fest 2025, day 2 begin: 18 groups of artists made noise at the same time for a whole hour!

Bu parçalanmış ve metalaşmış bilgi çağında, şekillendirilmemiş gerçek sesi bulmayı arzulayanlar, gerçek yüz yüze rezonans isteyenler için alternatif bir seçenek sunuyoruz. Burada gürültü her yerde ve sesin makul olması gerekmiyor – sadece var olması gerekiyor.

A Bunch of Noise, standartlaştırılmış veya etiketlenmiş sanat formlarını reddederek, trafik ve algoritmalar tarafından şekillendirilen sanat çerçevesinden kurtulmaya yönelik düşük bütçeli, deneysel bir D.I.Y. gürültü festivalidir. Çevrimiçi trendler tarafından yönlendirilen seçkilere güvenmiyoruz; bunun yerine, gerçek iletişim ve tartışma yoluyla, rezonans uyandırabilen ve titreşimler yaratabilen, sesi doğrudan kulaklarınıza, bedeninize ve duygularınıza getiren sanatçıları davet ediyoruz.

Gürültü sadece bir ses seviyesi ya da sert bir ses değildir; aynı zamanda düzeni bozan bir şok, “konfor alanına” yönelik bir meydan okumadır. Davet edilen sanatçılarımız trafiğe ve verilere bağlı değillerdir; sesleri bağımsız ve canlıdır, bağlanmayı veya tanımlanmayı reddederler. Her performans kurallara bir meydan okuma, bilinmeyen bir dünyanın yeniden yaratılması ve yeniden şekillendirilmesidir.

A Bunch of Noise sadece ses deneyleri için bir alan değil; bir duygu çarpışması, bir enerji patlamasıdır. Burada saf ses deneyimleri peşindeyiz – pazar ambalajlarına değil, internet balonlarına değil, sadece sesin kendisine güveniyoruz. Mükemmel ve sanatsal bir arayışımız yok, sadece deneyselliğin kıvılcımları ve bilinmeyene yolculuk var.

Bu parçalanmış ve metalaşmış bilgi çağında, şekillendirilmemiş gerçek sesi bulmayı arzulayanlar, gerçek yüz yüze rezonans isteyenler için alternatif bir seçenek sunuyoruz. Burada gürültü her yerde ve sesin makul olması gerekmiyor – sadece var olması gerekiyor.

Gürültünün mülkiyeti yoktur; sadece şimdiki zamanda varolur. Ödün vermek yok, beklemek yok. Gürültüye girin, gürültü olun.

> abunchofnoise.com


Pakito Bolino + Fredox w/ DaFa at ABON Fest 2025

Fredox at ‘A Bunch of Noise 2025’ photo by Guoruishuai

Slaughter Table, Live at A Bunch Of Noise Shanghai, 2025

Slaughter Table, noise player from Malaysia. Into harsh noise, with more structure complex approach a bit of cutup a bit of wave changing structure and uses of various noise filters, octaves. Some sounds generated from noise machine with a dynamic drone soundscape . Influences from Government alpha, Kazumoto Endo, Sickness, Bastard Noise, SCUM, Facialmess, Prurient, Scatmother.


ABON Fest 2025, photo by Smashoot
Fredox at ‘A Bunch of Noise 2025’ photo by Smashoot

FREDOX – 5 em colonne vertébrale (tribute to valium)
FREDOX – 5 em colonne vertébrale (tribute to valium)
Live from LDC Workshops, 2023
FREDOX – 5 em colonne vertébrale (tribute to valium)
Live from LDC Workshops, 2023
FREDOX – 5 em colonne vertébrale (tribute to valium)

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One thought on “Enter the Noise: Pakito Bolino + Fredox (ABON FEST 2025)

  1. ”this seems to have potential as a capitalist production, as a reaction to war and oppression of reasonable political communication. i produced some very radical industrial music decades ago but despite the fans, i never much pursued it partly bc the technology was bulky- but mostly i found it – and most of ‘new music” to be a culture of repetitive expectations; a collective of persons more open to mindless aggression and personal escapism… which at the time haunted me. today i know people that lost their hearing bc of our stupidity, and yet continue to be stupid. can i suggest : make your mark in the scene, then get ahead of it. i love techno rap metal sounds w traditional syncretic sufism. then when they become religiously repetitive i change the channel back to medieval Japan. just as noisy without the bulk.” -Leo S.

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