Sub Rosa

Conception: Guy-Marc Hinant

“Right from the outset, we wanted to be something other than a label – a machine, maybe,” says Guy-Marc Hinant, founder of Sub Rosa. Since 1993, this unique Belgian outfit has striven to create a body of work rather than a catalogue. Its name, which means “confidentially” or in secret, is already a statement of intent. Hinant and his colleagues hunt out rare music, new experiments in sound. While they champion many musicians from the electronic scene (Scanner, David Shea, Janek Schaefer, etc.) and have rediscovered some of the pioneers of that same music through their edgy compilations, Sub Rosa has also published many amazing discs from the sound archives. In them we hear the voices of some of the great creators of the 20th century. Gilles Deleuze, Marcel Duchamp and William Burroughs have thus been the subjects of their CDs. At the Printemps de septembre, Sub Rosa are presenting a sound installation constituted by a selection of sound works related to the idea of the broken line.