Vomir

The discovery of Pink Floyd at age of 11 introduced him to an attentive (???) listening to music and to complex musical universes, whose albums constitute an entity, like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, which Romain Perrot considers "an exemplary record". He is particularly interested in the catalog of the SST label (Black Flag, Sonic Youth); repetitive (La Monte Young) or industrial (Throbbing Gristle) music.[4]

In the 1990s, he moved closer to the experimental scene by hanging out with Bimbo Tower, U-Bahn and Instants Chavirés. He listened to Songs of Praise on Aligre FM and attended live shows every Monday evening before joining the show between 1999 and 2005.

It was through the discovery of the "Japanoise" from Merzbow, and particularly the Japanese artist Keiji Haino, that he was introduced to the free noise and harsh noise genres. Then by the work of The Rita and her label Militant Walls, at the origin of the term Harsh Noise Wall.

Perrot positions himself in a radical and nihilist "anti" approach.[5]

He has no musical theory nor instrumental training and does not aim, in his practice, to develop these skills. His approach emphasizes the absence of know-how and musicality in an assertive way. He also claims to be an "anti-artist" who "in the instrument and the noise, (I) really discovers letting go".[4]

To build his universe, he acquires guitars, amps, synthesizers and instinctively uses these instruments to generate raw sounds. All of his noise projects adopt this "anti-music" approach, allowing him to transcribe his disillusions and his rejection of a constituted order.

Perrot created his own label in 2012 on which he produces his personal projects and collaborations.

The Social Decimation Manifesto uncompromisingly takes up the philosophy inherent in its projects: "No Act / No Play / No Point / No Result / No Strategy / No Compromise / No Social Lubricant."

Perrot became known from 2006 under the name VOMIR. With this training, he worked on monolithic walls of static noise1 and became one of the representatives of this genre. He enjoys international recognition and performs regularly in France and abroad.[6]

This listening leads the audience outside the common and conventional modalities of musical structure. The minimalist construction of these powerful noise walls immerses the audience in pure sound frequency. For Romain Perrot, a wall of noise exists when noise remains complete, continuous and constant, from start to finish, without alteration or fluctuation. However, this super powerful wall, made with the bare minimum, can be perceived differently by each listener. Through its productions, VOMIR seeks to create an opportunity to experience the feeling of confinement and isolation through sound. He also conceives of noise music as a form of non-violent anarchism. VOMIR's nihilistic manifesto translates this desire to access a state of free consciousness, in the rejection of manipulative entertainment socialization:

"No ideas, no change, no development, no entertainment, no remorse".[7]

Although the HNW remains an underground sub-genre of noise music, several events are dedicated to the genre and a Festival is dedicated to it, at Instants Chavirés in Montreuil.[8]

The performances of VOMIR are performances comparable to "anti-concerts" which extend Romain Perrot's reasoning.

On stage, VOMIR is surrounded by his electronic instruments which broadcast his recordings for a live of at least 1 hour until 8 hours. At the same time as the wall of noise invades the room, Romain Perrot positions himself with his back to the audience and remains static throughout the broadcast. Proof, according to him, that the action does not take place on stage, but rather in a plastic bag.[9]

The plastic bags are offered to the entire audience at the start of the performance and are accompanied by a note: "Do not hesitate to place the plastic bag on your head for a complete immersion in the sound of Harsh Noise Wall, for separate yourself from everything else except noise".[10]

The goal is to immerse in the dark and individually each person who wishes, in order to experience an immersive confinement in communion with the power of the wall of noise.

The plastic bag is an accessory used to question the audience about its relationship to consumption and finds a certain echo with the stage name VOMIR.[10]

With VOMIR, Romain Perrot has taken part in numerous recordings with artists such as Marc Hurtado, Rotted Brain, Écoute la Merde, Werewolf Jerusalem, Government Alpha, Torturing Nurse.[11]

He has been known as Roro Perrot since 2011. With this training, he initiated a musical experiment and founded the concept of "Folk à chier".[7]

In the spirit of Jean Dubuffet's sound experiments, and more broadly, of his theory of outsider art, and the rejection of a dominant culture developed in Asphyxiant culture, Romain Perrot "practices an ersatz folk, improvised, ramshackle, inarticulate ”which he also describes on his label's website as“ a raw acoustic punk: without agreement, without musical knowledge, raw vocals, despair and rage."

These are instrumental productions, with an acoustic or electric guitar, on which he puts his voice.

His first record was released on the Premier Sang label in September 2011.

Under this training, Romain Perrot does not impose any defined perimeter, unlike his practice of Harsh Noise Wall, for which he respects the line of conduct he enacted through his Manifesto. Thus, he enjoys an eccentric freedom in the use of his instruments and his voice to create noise, allowing him to tackle a more Dadaist experiment.

He participates again with Roro Perrot in several collaborative projects. In particular with Yves Botz, for an accoustic duo which gave birth to recordings and performances for which they present themselves in a few words: "Instinct, urgency, humor, noise. The four hands of these two magnificent idiots do it all"[12]. He also invites "a friend who sings like a pan"[4], following the common thread of his practice.

Perrot is an outsider musician who works outside all musical constraints. Since his debut as a solo noise guitarist under the name Under Your Come Hand[4], he has set up numerous groups and projects under different pseudonyms: Romprai Etron, Falot, Ennui, Free as Dead.

The Trou aux Rats project that he leads to keyboards and synthesizers allows him to consolidate his uniqueness and to perform in Tokyo in 2018.[13]

He is directing an experimental horror short "Free as Dead" with Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture).

It also produces video clips that accompany some of these recordings.[19]

It publishes a limited edition graphic fanzine.[20]