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Can you tellin me a bit about yourself?

My name is Claire Gapenne, I’m 33 and I am living in Amiens, North of France.

How did you get into music?

I started music like any teenager forming a rock band when I was 15 years old. When I was 20 I was a singer in a pop band and then started to discover an underground scene that changed me and my taste.

Why did you chose for electronic music later on?

I didn’t really chose for electronic music, I was more into rock/industrial before and didn’t know that much about electronic music, I was just curious to do what I was not able to do.

How would you describe what you do?

Hedonistic and frustrated music. As I said, I was not into electronic stuff, so I started with no laws and just found my language with machines. That’s a good exercise to play alone, and also a good minimalist constraint.

Your first release on your Bandcamp is from about 10 years ago. How did your music evolve in those 10 years?

When I started my solo project I was in an industrial rock band called Headwar which influenced my early solo work. I had a guitar, my voice and dirty mp3s. After that I did do a few field recordings with collages, than I started making electronic stuff, now that’s rather clean.

What does the name Terrine mean?

That’s a joke, in French you have two mixed meat recipes: Pâté or Terrine, Pâté is masculin and Terrine is feminine, so yeah I'll keep this name.

Which gear do you use? Do you limit yourself to a drum computer and a synthesizer?

For recordings I’m using more gear like field recordings, more machines, piano, voice sometimes. Live I’m using just one drum machine. It’s like minimalistic broken electronics with noise… developing improvisation live is also something I try more and more.

You say you make 'free nuke music'.

In my city Amiens we have our own place to organise concerts that we call Accueil Froid Nuke, Nuke is the drug used in the film Robocop 2, it means obviously 'nuclear' so that’s a joke i have with friends, cause we are surrounded by an industrial area. So we thought that 'nuke' could be the new punk or the new jazz.

Who are the people around you who you see as your colleagues?

There are a lot of good colleagues in France and Belgium such as Carrageenan, C_C, Somaticae, Cancellled, Wash Club, Blason, Carte Noire, Meryll Ampe, Chicaloyoh, Deeat Palace, ...

And who are the musicians who you see as your influences?

John Coltrane, Shit & Shine, Dick Annegarn, Pansonic, TG, Autechre, Michel Legrand, Romaric Sobac,...