Jocelyn Robert

Jocelyn Robert is initial and foremost a audio musician and post-modern experimentalist. Because the middle-’80s, he provides released a string of daring albums a lot of people would explain as formulated with no music in any way. His main designs have already been silence, the trivial, miscommunication, as well as the recycling of pop lifestyle. With Pierre-André Arcand and Christof Migone, he co-founded the collective Avatar in Quebec Town in the first ’90s, which became the province’s flagship in appear art. Robert has generated radio functions and provided installations in THE UNITED STATES and Europe. Blessed in Quebec Town, Robert examined pharmacology and finished a qualification in structures before escaping into music. His method of the medium originated from plastic material arts, he’d always seize appear to be a raw materials to sculpt and integrate to intermedia functions rather than series of records and beats. He offered his first set up in 1987, the entire year a short tabs on his made an appearance on Ré Quarterly, Vol. 2 No. 2, a compilation curated by English drummer and ex-Henry Cow Chris Cutler. A yr later on, the latter’s label, Suggested, released Stat Live Moniteur, adopted in 1991 by Folie/Tradition, two interesting 1st attempts that unfortunately had little effect. In 1991, after their studies at Simon Fraser University or college (Vancouver, Canada), Robert returned to Quebec Town and installed with several similarly minded performers. With Louis Ouellet, Gilles Arteau, Georges Azzaria, and Fabrice Montal he created Bruit TTV, a Dadaist sound structure ensemble that released two CDs in the first ’90s. In 1993, he co-founded Avatar, an “association for audio creation and diffusion,” including a lot of the aforementioned performers, plus Arcand and Migone. Housed in the arts building/co-op Meduse, Avatar became his primary activity for another eight years. He aimed it, cartoon it, and offered it its character. Throughout that period, he multiplied installations, collective documenting tasks, and live shows, and acted as maker and designer for some of the produces within the association’s associated imprint Ohm Editions. He released a string of single CDs, including Le Piano Flou (1995) and Canned Gods (1999). In 1999, he produced the Avatar all-star digital improv group GOD’AR, which performed on the 2000 Celebration International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. Robert acquired musician residencies in Banff, Vancouver, Amsterdam (STEIM), and Sheffield. In 2002, his set up “L’Invention des Animaux” gained him first award at Transmediale in Berlin. The majority of his radio functions were designed for Canadian condition radio, however in 2002, Austrian radio place ORF Kunstradio commissioned “SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 3 Serves.” In 2001, after a decade spent in Quebec Town, Robert transferred to California to review at Stanford School and consider his artwork in brand-new directions.