About



Hey. My name is Marc and I am a 26 years-old PhD student from Nancy, North-Eastern France. One thing I have to acknowledge is that I'm not very good at talking about my music.

The project started in summer 2005, when I decided to compose pieces of music on my own, after having been evicted from my former band, the year before. Originally, I did not intend to produce anything formalised, such as albums: the only goal was to enjoy playing music again.

Thus, I bought an audio controller, so that I would be able to hear the music I was producing. After a while, some friends lent an ear to what I had recorded, and convinced me to give the whole thing a new direction, and that was when I decided to record albums and stuff. I named this project No Opera after a track by Chris Cole's Manyfingers.

So, I started releasing things, mainly through free-of-charges downloads. Two long plays and two extended plays have been released so far. In the beginning of 2009 I aslo acquired the electronic equipment required to perform my music live, and rewrote most of the songs in a gig-oriented way.

Also, I want to say that this whole project must not be regarded as professional. I am not a professional recording artist, nor a professional recording engineer, and I have absolutely no intention to ever become the former or the latter. I am not interested in promoting this music to the largest possible audience, or in performing it live except under exceptional conditions (living-rooms are the best). So please, keep your money and your time to support people who still dream to live thanks to music.

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Disclaimer



First of all, thank you for downloading, listening to, sharing, promoting, etc., my music. Any suggestions, criticisms, love declarations, “knock-knock” jokes, or passionate  pamphlets are warmly welcomed.

All the albums are downloadable for free but the laws protecting copyright and intellectual property still apply.
In other words, it is OK for you to download, listen to, and/or share this material as long as you do not claim it is yours, and/or try to get money or any kind of subtantial compensation for sharing it. You may not use or manipulate my work in any way, either in it’s entirety, or in portion, without express consent from me.

If you plan on using, broadcasting or re-mixing any of this material for any purpose, please e-mail me at marc(at)noopera(dot)com. There is also a contact page on this site.
If someone tries to make you pay for this music, contact me as well.

All this music is written, composed, performed, arranged, recorded, mixed, and masterised by No Opera and everything is © No Opera, except what is mentioned in the next paragraph.

Thus:

  • The song “The Machine” contains a sample of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s work “The Dead Flag Blues”, which is featured on their F# A# ∞ album, released in 1998 by Kranky Records and re-released by Constellation Records.
  • The song “Little Argument with Myself” is a cover version of Low’s song. You can find the original version on their Trust album released in 2002 by Kranky Records.
  • The song “Out of Sight” contains samples from Orson Welles’ motion picture Citizen Kane.
  • The song “A Ballad for Kim Peek” contains samples from Discovery Channel’s documentary entitled The Real Rain Man.
  • The cover image of the “Ad Nauseam” E.P. is taken from this book: Chalmers, A. F., What is this Thing Called Science? An Assesment of the Nature and Status of the Science and its Methods, St Lucia, Queensland University Press.

Those have by no mean been used to make any money. Ever.