Harisska was a performed publishing label based in Montpellier, France. It was dedicated to promote and produce independent obscure music figures of the Mediterranean Sea through people ecounter, bootleg live recordings and found tapes in southern France, Magreb area and beyond between 2014 and 2017.
It outputted approximately 400 hand-made cds and tapes, from mastering, duplicating, up to artwork and recycled sleeves production, through approx. 20 release, copies were dispatched along mail-art and LP distribution all around the world for the most curious ears to (re)discover lost gems or archival pieces.
This project got attention from
Bibliothèque nationale de France "Depot Legal department" for its archiving quality and purpose, aswell toward rediscovering reissue from lost content and rare phonograms like we find in diy,punk,noise and ethnic music.
Therefore, each of this label's release will become available to look at or listen at the Bibliothèque nationale de France during the year of 2026,
as in the phonogram archives of the library.
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Another side of HARISSKA was the
HARISSKA NET LABEL, pretending saving the rare and obscure 7''/tape/reel music and documents from the digital wasteland.
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"Chants of the Forgotten Stones" is an audio-print project that aims to document fantasy and investigate the pre-colonization sonic ecosystem of canary islands.
Diving through eras from a fictive traveler in a pseudo comic-style layout, the traveler meets impressionistic writing and sound reliefs from the wild lizards region.
Pre-colonial culture elements are emphasized confronting the paradox of machines, repetition and .
It is an imaginary time-travelogue using graphic primal techniques, re-appropriating mapping, symbolism of pre-inquisition era; it developps around questions of lost perception due to economical impact and invites to deep listening.
The production involves the design of a A1-sized riso print poster with a set of acousmatic work pieces on CD. – PressKit
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Reflected Immediacy is both a 5mn. short film and a HTML installation. It's an experiment on the theme of metamorphosis phenomenon and analog performance, perceived through the spectrum of sound tones and digital texture transformation. It unfolds as a slow hallucinatory drift between natural textures and synthetic perception. A monumental form — part monolith, part mirage — dissolves into vaporous color fields and ambient frequencies. -
phersu.net/reflected_immediacy (2025)
Visual/Video : Denise Padron Benitez
Dreaming of Hephaestus, a live score/live cinema performance using the elusive character of dreaming as a narrative structure through repetition
abstraction and the many different faces of the archetype of the mother.
It is the first chapter of the triptych project
Exercitia Spiritualia Animae, as a audio-visual duo performance with video artist and writer Denise Padron Benitez. - 2023-2024
It is performed using analog synthesizers and effects (i), aswell as VDMX live GPU compositing image software (Denise).
Links : Website |
Vimeo |
Youtube
Photo: Mika Perez
Animated Introduction Sequence from the expanded cinema project 'Dreaming Of Hephaestus' .
