Death Orgone

13/03/2024

Un Regard Froid - Liminal/Omnicide Pacific Mini-Tour.

March 31st, BKK - Negative Frequencies Over Siam - Vol. 1
April 4th, TYO - Ankoku Dystopia: Butoh & Music

23/12/2023

Collage work for Rusalka/Primitive Isolation Tactics split tape freshly released on Cipher Productions.

15/12/2023

New game alert! Sciences du jeu just released a new edition about research-creation in video games. I can finally reveal our contribution, Grapefruit, an adaptation of the famous book by Yoko Ono.

This experience is a collaboration with my partner of 15 years . This marks our 10th wedding anniversary. Fun fact: the first time we met, we discussed extensively our mutual appreciation of Fluxus.

Grapefruit is free to play and comes with an essay (only in French) describing the creative process and the theoretical highjacking.

Enjoy!

Téléchargez un jeu avec une description cryptique. Lancez l'application. Jouez jusqu'à perdre conscience. (a) Jouez jusqu'à la mort. (b)

28/11/2023

New prototype out on Itch.

Title: The flies' choreography amplifies my longing for the void. (Drawing down the moon)

The experience lasts 8 minutes. I highly recommend playing with another person - one on the keyboard, the other on the mouse.

Link in comment.

14/10/2023

Ilinx Volume 1 is out! Link in comment.

Ilinx is a handmade zine dedicated to experimental and noisy video game creation. It is a subversive homage to the videogames magazines of yore and their bombastic, unapologetic aesthetic.

- 12 analogic collages remixing and subverting video game ad
- Long-form essay exploring an industrial noise approach to video game creation
- Interviews with Selfish Dream, Stef Pinto, Yames, Valerie Dusk, and Andrea Pignataro.
- 15 game reviews featuring Matthew Ager, Frozen Cicada, Desert Fox, io, Jack Spinoza, ClaymoreGwen, Colorfiction, Magpuppy, Mike Richards, Oleander Garden, tm, DDD Wares, Minigoliath, Salem Hughes and Samuel Leigh.

If interest is sufficient, physical copies will be available.
Ilinx Vol.1 is free, but a contribution of $5 would be greatly appreciated to support future endeavors.

https://deathorgone.itch.io/ilinx-volume-1

02/10/2023

The world premiere of the short film "Absorption Foetale - Pulsion Pansmerique" will be at Fu:bar/expo Glitch Festival in Zagreb!

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16/09/2023

Two collages from Ilinx, a zine project I’ve been working on for the past few months. Ilinx mixes two of my passions; noise/industrial music and video games.

The first document will include a translation of my essay Harsh Noise Industrial Games, published in French in Sciences du jeu, interviews and a selection of underground games.

03/09/2023

Exophilie reached 1k downloads without support or promotion. Every day, 7-15 individuals download this weird mutants of harsh noise, lovecraftian p**n and conspiracy with AI.

“Nothing human makes of out of the near-future”.

05/07/2023

Recent interactive experiences recommendations to escape from the nightmare of analogical reality:

Mass (et autres oeuvres de phasein)
prairieworld
Stilluminate
Lazarus
A Place of Honor
Weld
Home Sweet Home
Someone Knocks on the Door
Oneirology Online

And a few words about Universal Paperclip, Hotel Sowls and Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.

Indie Games Reviews 34 – 05/07/2023 Mass by phasein – https://phasein.itch.io/mass As all my recent projects explore the relationship between noise and interactive media, this is one I had to try, and it delivered. The hallucinatory spatial design is a joy to explore and hooks you in its pulsing...

03/06/2023

Indie and alt games reviews - Chapter 33.

The Moon is the Ocean Brain
Far Solita: [Think/Again]
Cyberia
A Most Important Night
Sum
Truth Loop 2
Future Racer 2000
Last Signal
Hendecad
Branded
An Empty House
World Annihilation Operations: Space Manipulation
Decimate Drive
Kill the Man in the House
Water Wheel
Meteor Strike
Troisième personne du singulier
Neo City Express
Drone Delivery Despair
null
Liminascent
Lighthouse of the Dead

Also covered: Metroid Prime: Remastered, Dredge et Joe & Mac Returns.

Indie Games Reviews 33 – 06/02/2023 The Moon Is the Ocean Brain by Yames – https://www.patreon.com/yames_games Here it is if you need additional reasons to support Yames on Patreon. I won’t spoil the experience, but this is beyond brilliant game-making; this is the future of horror literature....

26/05/2023

Stills from "Absorption fœtale - Pulsion panspermique" (2023)

(P.S: Any short films program/festival with a slot to fill - I'm in)

22/05/2023

Absorption fœtale - Pulsion panspermique (Epilepsy warning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN8pXzzOZlA

New short film/music video from Un Regard Froid - Exophilie. The images invoked for the game still haunted me and I wanted to manipulate the raw material (and also get back momentarily into video editing and glitch art).

Images generated with Disco Diffusion.
Glitch generated with vdcrpt by branchpanic: https://branchpanic.itch.io/vdcrpt

Game: https://deathorgone.itch.io/exophilie
Album available through Absurd Exposition/Scream & Writhe: https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/exophilie

Exophilie is a training tool to prepare cognisensory adaptation in the azathothcene and speculative effects of libidinal anticosmic frequencies on human boundaries.

From Un Regard Froid - ExophilieGame: https://deathorgone.itch.io/exophilieAlbum: https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/exophilieImages generated with ...

14/05/2023

Mother’s Day (2008)

04/05/2023

Free games I have greatly enjoyed these past few weeks:

Ens
The Last Spin
Videoballs
Cleaving Caliber
Out of the Blue
Phantom Frame
Somnosec
The Portraits
#19: The World
Monuments to Guilt
Shared Visions

And also Live A Live (Switch), Farpoint (PSVR), Signalis (Switch).

Detailed comments here:
http://frederickmaheux.com/indie-games-reviews-32-05-04-2023/

28/04/2023

I published a postmortem of my new album/game Exophilie. It develops findings emerging from my collaboration with artificial intelligence through creative improvisation and transgression. It also documents retroactively my game design process.

This will be the basis of my upcoming participation at (un)Stable Diffusions symposium happening May 23-34 at Milieux Institute. https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/unstable-diffusions-symposium/2023-05-23/

http://www.frederickmaheux.com/exophilie-postmortem/

Exophilie materialized into this dust matrix through an urge to return to harsh noise with my industrial project Un Regard Froid.

18/04/2023

Support physical releases of my project. Finance upcoming educative video games.

Un Regard Froid - Exophilie : https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product/audio/cd/un-regard-froid-exophilie-cd/

Un Regard Froid - Accélération : https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product/audio/cd/un-regard-froid-acceleration-cd/

D*** P*** /Blu-Ray et Zine : https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product/video/drug-porn-blu-ray/

CRPS - Document One: https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product/audio/cassettes/crps-document-one-cs/

ANA / DVD : https://www.goredrome.com/?s=ana&post_type=product&type_aws=true

Théorie de la religion / DVD : https://www.goredrome.com/product/theorie-de-la-religion-dvd-ultralimited-mediabook-edition/

Directed by Frédérick Maheux, the extreme film Théorie de la religion (Canada – 2010) focuses on the life of a man who vents his frustrations on a mannequin, opening the door to his most twisted fantasies to satisfy his sexual desires.

07/04/2023

After months of cyberinvocations in the chaos matrix, Exophilie is finally bursting out of the void today. A Midjourney of extraterrestrial er***sm, a Chat-GPT possessed by Azathoth, but above all a scrap metal harsh noise album/video game where each track is represented as an explorable 3D sensory-degrading experience.

Turn on. Tune in. Clip out of reality.

CD available through Absurd Exposition.

Album: https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/exophilie
Game: https://deathorgone.itch.io/exophilie

Cognisensory Training

02/04/2023

Music video for C̸o̸s̶m̷o̷s̴ ̵d̴e̸n̶t̶a̵t̸a̶ ̸-̸ ̸A̷b̴e̷r̴r̷a̷t̷i̶o̸n̴ ̴g̸é̵n̴i̷t̶a̸l̷e̶ ̷p̸a̷r̶a̷s̵i̵t̴a̶i̷r̷e̵ from the upcoming album/game Exophilie by Un Regard Froid/Death Orgone. Made from in-game footage.

Exophilie comes out April 7th on Absurd Exposition.

Good luck

Made from in-game footage.Video game and album to be released April 7th.https://deathorgone.itch.io/https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/www.frederickmaheux...

31/03/2023

Exophilie Game/CD launch yesterday at Éditions 8888 Master of Brutality at WIP.

Exhibition opened until this Sunday April 2nd. 3487 St-Laurent.

24/03/2023

More games you must play. This time:

Loneliest Depth
Dark Static
Waste Eater
Be Honest
Embracing Hell
Slums
Digidream
Myst FPS
Box

And some less subterranean titles: Midnight Fight Express and Source of Madness.

20/03/2023

Un regard froid - Exophilie

A training tool to prepare cognisensory adaptation in the azathothcene and speculative effects of libidinal anticosmic frequencies on human boundaries.

Album + Video game coming soon on Absurd Exposition.

09/03/2023

Artwork by for upcoming Un Regard Froid album+video game, Exophilie. Coming soon on Absurd Exposition.

Inhumanist audio filth. Liminal spheres of mutated perversions.

05/03/2023

https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product/dvd/drug-porn-blu-ray/

Drug P**n
65 minutes Professional Blu-Ray and 20 pages booklet by Steven Purtill
Limited to 100 copies

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/280818609

A film by Frederick Maheux
Music by Bruno R. Julian

Drug P**n is an experimental documentary about the spectacle of substance abuse on social media. In the context of the opioid and fentanyl crisis, the film explores the digital landscape of users who document and publicly share their consumption online.

Drug P**n is not only about the individual motivation to expose oneself, but about the Web as a media and how it transforms the notion of community, love, family and communication. More than 45 hours of footage, hundreds of pages of blog posts and interviews were distilled and remixed using glitch and cut-up techniques to insure anonymity, transcend the shock factor and unfold this complex, singular and stratified use of social media.

23/02/2023

30th (!) games recommandations from the past weeks :
http://frederickmaheux.com/indie-games-reviews-30-02-23-2023/

This time : Planet Graveyard, Undertide, The Tunnel, Breadbasket, Enupishi, Atuel, Rooted in Darkness, Feet in the Snow, Pop to the Shops, TET, A Time Traveller's Guide to Past Delicacies.

Quick mentions : Morbid: Seven Acolytes, Self, Akane, Battle Mania: Daiginjō, Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania Bloodlines, Dead or School, Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel, Hard Reset and Beyond a Steel Sky.

Indie Games Reviews 30 — 02/23/2023 Planet Graveyard by HamezTeam—https://hamezteam.itch.io/planet-graveyard One of the great titles born of LSDJAM 2022. The bittersweet atmosphere of fatalistic doom creeps through the digital fog, pushing you to explore the margins of this necrodome. Undertide ...

07/02/2023

Extrait final de mon prochain jeu bruitiste, Exophilie. Maintenant avec 100% plus de saturation synesthésique. Album et jeu à venir...

Final extract of upcoming harsh noise game Exophilie. Now with 100% more synaesthetic saturation. Album and game coming soon...

27/01/2023

First indie/alt/experimental/are they even video games/the term is problematic of 2023. There are less than usual as I'm grinding to finish my new game - by that I mean making it as unplayable as possible.

This time:
Concrete Tremor
Tears in the Rain: The Last Moments of the Metaverse
Fantomas
city::ephemera
Wheat Harvest Paradox
Mental Break
দুঃস্বপ্
Grasping
Deep Fear

Also a few words about Musha, In Sound Mind, Choo-Choo Charles, Huntdown and Vampire Survivors.

Indie Games Reviews 29 — 01/27/2023 Concrete Tremor by Mike Klubnika—https://mikeklubnika.itch.io/concrete-tremor This odd sentiment when you don’t quite master your craft yet and you get incomprehensively jealous not having thought of someone else’s artwork yourself. This is precisely how I...

27/01/2023

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