Agathe Max is a French

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ist based in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

mainly active in the

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scene. Agathe Max plays electric violin combined with electronics, stomp boxes and a loop station. She collaborated with a series of other experimental musicians such as

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, Alexander Tucker, Lucio Capece, David Daniell, Yoko Higashi,

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and with dancers like Juha Marsalo, Carolyn Carlson. Besides her musical career, Max is also active as a visual artist. Max has played on the Supersonic Festival,

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, Electron Festival. Her 2008 cd ''This Silver String'' was released on Xeric, a sublabel of Table of the Elements Records.

Discography

Solo albums * ''Solace the Grizzly'', 2006 * ''Sonic Live'', 2007, Angry Ballerina Records * ''This Silver String'', 2008,

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* ''Dangerous Days'', 2012, Inglorious Records With Abstract Concrete * '' Abstract Concrete'', 2023

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