François Cotinaud

François Cotinaud, is a French saxophonist and clarinetist, composer and soundpainter, born in Casablanca, 9 August 1956.[1]

François Cotinaud
François Cotinaud, 2015.
Background information
Born (1956-08-09) August 9, 1956
Casablanca, Maroc
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, soundpainter
InstrumentsTenor saxophone, clarinet
Years active1976–present
LabelsMusivi, Ayler Records
Associated actsWalter Thompson
Websitewww.jazzbank.com

Biography

François Cotinaud studied music with Alan Silva, Cecil Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, or Steve Lacy. He then created the label Musivi and leaded various experiences with Denis Colin (Texture), Bobby Few, Ramón López, Glenn Ferris, Enrico Rava, Pascale Labbé, Serge Adam and Sylvie Cohen, and recorded several albums with them.

In 1985, he created a quartet with Ramón López, Heriberto Paredes, Thierry Colson, later with Gilles Coronado. His solo CD "Loco Solo" (1998) around Luciano Berio offers his trend for contemporary music, and provocation. He performed with percussionist Pierre Charpy (electro-acoustics device) around Arthur Rimbaud's texts ("Rimbaud and M.A.O.").

Has always seduced by oriental music, after a stint in the "Tierra del Fuego" group led by Pablo Nemirovsky, he showed in "Yo M'enamori" its Mediterranean sensibility through the prism of a contemporary re-reading, freed of tradition, with pianist Sylvie Cohen.

He stand apart from other jazz musicians of his generation in his formal research between text (poetry) and music (improvised or written) in various formations, the duet with cellist Deborah Walker ("Poetica Vivace"), the ensemble Text'up (texts by Raymond Queneau, Arthur Rimbaud), and the ensemble Luxus (Pascale Labbé, voice / Jérôme Lefebvre, guitar) with Rainer Maria Rilke.

He played with the Spoumj (Soundpainting Orchestra of the Union of Jazz Musicians, directed by François Jeanneau), and founded the group "Algèbre" with Pierre Durand (guitar) and Daniel Beaussier (winds). Involved in Soundpainting, composition language created by Walter Thompson, he founded in 2010 the ensemble Klangfarben (dance, musik and actors), which makes performances at museums, theaters, recordings dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage.

He had organized and produce the two first Soundpainting Festival in Paris (2013-2014), with 101 artists, major Soundpainting formations like : Spoumj, Klanfarben, Amalgammes, TSO, the Spang, Walter Thompson Orchestra, Batik, Helsinki Soundpainting Ensemble.

He recorded with Multilateral ensemble (contemporary ensemble) and the composer Benjamin de la Fuente, pieces based on open form, in the spirit of Earle Brown, melding written contemporary music and Soundpainting.

Pedagogy
François Cotinaud at Freiburg Musikhochschule - 2015

Cofounder with A.Silva then director of an improvisation musik school in Paris from 1977 to 1987 (I.A.C.P.), François Cotinaud taught musical improvisation not only as an idiomatic jazz language, but also in a much freer environment, and leaded collectiv improvisation courses since 1978. He teaches Soundpainting in Paris (conservatoire Mozart) - first official class, Finland, and many towns in France. He contributed to international Think Tanks of soundpainters (Bordeaux, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milano, Valencia, Madrid).

Compositions
  • 1983 : Le Crotoy, Chasse-mouche
  • 1989 : Casa del sol, Acrobaties, Dix-huit carats, Princesse, Temakatamawo, John Wayne
  • 1990 : Heri-son, Métakynesis
  • 1992 : Metakynesis, Ficus, Voix interdites, Pyramides, Circus
  • 1994 : Jeux de mains
  • 1995 : Le festin des ogres, Jambe de Dieu, Danse avec les fous
  • 1998 : Inventaire, Ilperel, Indigo, Mode à la joie
  • 1999 : Traversée de la page, Suppositions, Les Généreuses, Epouvantails, Le calligraphe du vide, la sieste
  • 2000 : Mis amigos me dan esperanza. Traditional Jewish-Spanish songs rearrangements.
  • 1996-2002 - Works around Raymond Queneau's poetry : Déchiffrage, Modestie, Art Popo, Marine, Silence Coi, Text'up, Rush, Ydol Nabdous.
  • 2004 : Deki, El rey que tanto madruga, Mue du Monde, Terre libre
  • 2005 - Enfance, Parade, Voyelles (works around Arthur Rimbaud's poetry), Anthem, No it is open on one position
  • 2006-2008 - for cello and clarinet : La perte, Poetica Vivace, Dialogue, Hypothesis, work for celle and tenor saxophone : Matin.
  • 2009 : J'ai rarement vu, Des goûts et des couleurs, Pauvre Jean, Toujours dans la chaussure?, Psaume X, Rare, Rush
  • 2010 : Eucalyptus, Variations sur une collection de timbres, Temps perdu, Pentaèdre
  • 2011-2012 : Monologue de Schönberg, Monemvasia, Palette Cage
  • 2013 : Algorithme, Topologie d'un manège, Diagramme, Hologram, Le pendule du Fou, Monoïd 1 et 2, I Would like to be Free, Fleeting Patterns
  • 2014 : Mes filles, Et le diable a tremblé..., Listes en vrac, Sous la douche
  • 2015 : New Heaven. Works around Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry : Crier le Hasard, Prodige, Eternité, Verwandlung, La Bête, spiegele Malerei.
  • 2016 : Tadouda-ta, Onomatopée
  • 2017 : pieces composed together with Benjamin de la Fuente : Découper, colorier, coller, Cités abacules, Dons des pierres qui parlent, La fin de Pompei, L'usage des couleurs, Du nu dans les bleus, Clé de voûte, Aire de jeux acoustiques.
  • 2018 : Like; Je vis, je meurs, about the famous poetry of Louise Labé. Vous m'avez dit, on a poetry of Emile Verhaeren.
  • 2019 : Oreille-Caresse, Jadis-Plume, Puit-Lumière, Eclat-Noir, Cristal-Feuille, Epi-Tambour (works for clarinette solo, violin seul), Pluie-Chemin (flute-clarinet), Ocre-vent (violin/clarinet/tuba/piano), Ombre-Jardin (work for clarinet and bass clarinet), Vague-Lune (violin/clarinet/tuba/piano).

Discography

as leader or coleader
  • Portrait for a small woman, Celestrial Communication Orchestra, direction Alan Silva 1978
  • Texture sextet 1981, with Itaru Oki, Bruno Girard, Denis Colin, Pierre Jacquet, Michel Coffi
  • Desert Mirage, Celestrial Communication Orchestra, direction Alan Silva 1982
  • Polygames, with Itaru Oki, Bruno Girard, Denis Colin, Pierre Jacquet, Michel Coffi 1983
  • Princesse, featuring Heriberto Paredes, Thierry Colson, Ramón López, Label Musivi 1990
  • Pyramides, featuring Heriberto Paredes, Thierry Colson, Ramón López, Glenn Ferris and Enrico Rava, Label Musivi 1992
  • Opéra, 17 contemporary improvisations, with Ramón López, Label Musivi 1993
  • Loco Solo, improvisations around Sequenza IX from Luciano Berio, Label Musivi 1998
  • Yo M'enamori, 14 Jewish-Spanish songs, with pianist Sylvie Cohen, Label Musivi 2000
  • François Cotinaud fait son Raymond Queneau, with Text'up ensemble, Label Musivi 2003
  • Rimbaud et son double, (collectiv works, box of 2 CD + 1 DVD), with Pascale Labbé, Pierre Charpy, Mathilde Morières, Sylvain Lemêtre, François Choiselat, Jérôme Lefebvre, Olivier Guichard, Label Musivi 2006
  • François Cotinaud, Klangfarben ensemble, Monologue de Schönberg and Variations sur une collection de timbres, box CD-DVD, Label Ayler Records/Musivi Soundpainting Collection, 2012
  • No Meat Inside, with Henri Roger, Barre Phillips, Emmanuelle Somer, Label Facing You / IMR 2013
  • François Cotinaud, Topologie d'un Manège, with Algèbre (Daniel Beaussier, Pierre Durand, Bruno Chevillon, Denis Charolles, François Merville), Label Musivi 2013 (Musea)
  • Ensemble LUXUS (Pascale Labbé, François Cotinaud, Jérôme Lefebvre) L'Orphée de Rilke, Label Musivi 2016 (Musea)
  • Mosaïques François Cotinaud and Benjamin de la Fuente, ensemble Multilatérale, Label Musivi, Soundpainting Collection, 2018
  • Night Access François Cotinaud and Sergio Castrillon (cello), 17 pieces, 2018

as sideman
  • Le Cercle de Pierres, with Bekummernis (Luc Le Masne, direction and compositions), Ménélas, 1986
  • Calcuttango, with Tierra del Fuego (Pablo Nemirovsky, direction and compositions), Tangram, 1994
  • Hommage à George Russell with Philippe Seignez, Label Musivi, 2018
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References
  1. "Site de Francois Cotinaud saxophoniste et compositeur". Jazzbank.com. Retrieved November 17, 2015.

Sources : [1] [2]

  1. http://isni.org/isni/0000000372010454
  2. http://www.idref.fr/080493653
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