Jean-Luc Guionnet

Jean-Luc Guionnet can be an elusive figure. A Parisian designer active in lots of fields (music, visible arts, movie theater), he offers mainly worked well in electro-acoustics but also offers a profession in free of charge improvisation, playing alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, chapel body organ, and piano. He offers collaborated with Éric La Casa, Éric Cordier, and André Almuro on tape music. His primary free of charge improv and jazz tasks consist of Hubbub, Schams, Come back of the brand new Thing, as well as the Joe Rosenberg quintet. Guionnet produced scientific tests before moving to good arts. He analyzed musique concrete under Iannis Xenakis and Michel Zbar, but additionally pursued research in beliefs (esthetics) with Geneviève Clancy. His 1st works date from your late ’80s and so are mainly collaborations with filmmaker André Almuro (some have already been issued by Floor Fault). Then arrived a lasting relationship with electro-acousticians Éric Cordier and Éric La Casa. Jointly they composed the series “Afflux.” Guionnet also creates the Ateliers de Création Radiophoniques (“innovative radio workshops”) for France Lifestyle. His eclecticism provides kept him away of identification — because to the attention from the press it whitening strips him from some reliability and because working careers in school of thought (he was co-director for the review Terre des Signes from 1993 to 1996), painting (he exhibited from 1992 to 1997), and music concurrently is commonly time-consuming. The discharge of the eponymous Compact disc by Dan Warburton’s free of charge jazz quartet Come back of the brand new Part of 1999 in the well known label Leo Information introduced Guionnet to some wider audience. Since that time his actions as an improviser possess constantly extended toward the fringes of experimentalism. His involvement within the French-Swiss group Hubbub and his duo with guitarist Olivier Benoit (&El, 2002) follow the institution of Berlin reductionism.