Michel Delville


Michel Delville is a Belgian musician, writer and critic. Delville teaches literature at the University of Liège. He is the author of books about comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies. He was awarded the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold I, and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances.
Delville has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His bands include The Wrong Object, douBt, Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, Alex Maguire's Electric 6tet, the New Texture Pan Tonal Fellowship, the Ed Mann Project, and the Moving Tones. He has worked with Dave Liebman, Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Alex Maguire, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Tony Bianco, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Guy Segers, Klaus Blasquiz, Gilad Atzmon, and Dirk Wachtelear.
In 2009 he created the trio douBt with Alex Maguire and Tony Bianco. Their debut album, Never Pet a Burning Dog, included ex-Camel, Caravan and Hatfield and the North member Richard Sinclair on guest vocals and bass. In 2010 he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando, a tribute to the music of Robert Wyatt whose line-up includes Dagmar Krause, Richard Sinclair, Annie Whitehead, Gilad Atzmon, Alex Maguire, Chris Cutler, John Edwards, and Cristiano Calcagnile. In 2011 the band toured Europe and Canada as a sextet in 2011. In 2012, Delville collaborated with the international collective 48 Cameras and Robin Rimbaud. In 2018 he was voted one of the 3 best electric guitarists of the year by Arnaldo DeSouteiro's Annual Jazz Station Poll.
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Selected bibliography

;As author
  • Erasurism
  • Tutto quello che non-avreste mai voluto leggere—o rileggere—sul fotoromanzo. Una passeggiata
  • Le roman de la faim: du Hungerkünstler au schizoflâneur
  • Jim Hendrix: Are Your Experienced
  • The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust
  • Undoing Art
  • Ali e t o lo ss
  • Anything & Everything
  • Radiohead: OK Computer
  • Crossroads Poetics: Text, Image, Music, Film & Beyond
  • Entre la poire et le fromage
  • Eating the Avant-Garde
  • Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
  • Le Troisième corps . Translated into English by Gian Lombardo as Third Body
  • Hamlet & Co
  • The American Prose Poem
  • J.G. Ballard
;As editor or co-editor
  • The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem
  • Early Prose Poems from All Over
  • The French Prose Poem: An Anthology
  • Poe: Eureka
  • Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History
  • Il grande incubo che mi son scelto: prove di avvicinamento a Profondo Rosso
  • Le thriller métaphysique
  • Marc Atkins
  • Le dégoût: Histoire, politique et esthétique d'une émotion plurielle
  • Boucle et répétition: musique, littérature, arts visuels
  • L’œuvre en morceaux : Esthétiques de la mosaïque
  • Le Rossignol instrumental : Poésie, musique, modernité.
  • Sound as Sense: US Poetry &/In Music
  • ''Postwar American Poetry: The Mechanics of the Mirage''

Selected discography

The Wrong Object feat. Ed Mann Live at Zappanale
  • The Wrong Object, The Unbelievable Truth featuring Elton Dean
  • The Wrong Object, Platform One feat. Harry Beckett and Annie Whitehead
  • Trank Zappa Grappa in Varèse, More Light
  • PaNoPTiCoN, Live at L'An Vert
  • The Wrong Object, Stories from the Shed
  • Alex Maguire Sextet, Brewed in Belgium
  • Trank Zappa Grappa in Varèse, TZGIV Play Zappa
  • PaNoPTiCoN, Dawn of the New World
  • PaNoPTiCoN, Dusk of the New World
  • The Wrong Object feat. Stanley Jason Zappa and Nick Shrowaczewski, Live at Zappanale 2008
  • douBt, Never Pet a Burning Dog
  • PaNoPTiCoN, Live @ El Negocito
  • Machine Mass Trio (Tony Bianco/Michel Delville/Jordi Grognard), As Real as Thinking
  • 48 Cameras, Right North, she said...
  • douBt, Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
  • Comicoperando, Live at the Bimhuis
  • NichelOdeon, Bath Salts
  • Robin Rimbaud/48Cameras, We Could Bring You Silk in May
  • The Wrong Object, After the Exhibition
  • Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, Inti
  • Machine Mass, Plays Hendrix
  • Eclectic Maybe Band
  • The Wrong Object, Zappa Jawaka
  • Dominique Vantomme w. Tony Levin/Michel Delville/Maxime Lenssens, Vegir
  • Eclectic Maybe Band, Reflection in a Moebius Ring Mirror
  • The Gödel Codex, Oak
  • The Wrong Object, Into the Herd
  • Machine Mass Sextet, Intrusion
  • Eclectic Maybe Band, Bars Without Measures
  • The Wrong Object, In and Outflown Tapes
  • Blutchings, ''Blutchings''

Selected filmography

The World According to Radiohead Romantic Warriors Part III: Canterbury Tales Michel Delville : Portrait Comicoperando Live In Amsterdam