Five improvisational pieces in which the instruments of Bertrand Gauguet (alto and baritone saxophones) and Jean-Luc Petit (contrabass clarinet and sopranino saxophone) swap from one track to the next, with timbres and temperaments varying according to the time of day.
Bertrand Gauguet is a musician trudging through a practice without hierarchy involving sound and music: as an improvising saxophonist, composer of electronic music and as a sounds collector. He has been playing since the early 2000s the alto saxophone in contexts of solo and group improvisation. His approach to the saxophone explores extended techniques, multiphony and microphony. He has been programmed in numerous festivals of new and experimental music in France and abroad (Europe, USA, Japan…). Collaborations includes
Éliane Radigue,
John Tilbury,
Robin Hayward, Eddie Prevost,
Franz Hautzinger, Thomas Lehn,
Xavier Charles,
Sophie Agnel,
Andrea Neumann,
Pascal Battus,
Eric La Casa,
Robin Hayward,
Michel Doneda, l'Insub Meta Orchestra,
Seijiro Murayama, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura,
John Butcher,
Axel Dörner,
Isabelle Duthoit,
Catherine Contour…
Jean-Luc Petit (born 1954) is a French clarinettist and saxophonist whose main preoccupation is improvisation. He collaborates with various ensembles and many other musicians:
Claire Bergerault's Le Lobe,
Ensemble Un directed by
David Chiesa, Christiane Bopp, Benjamin Duboc, Benoît Kilian, Fabrice Favriou, Mathias Pontevia, Didier Lasserrre,
Daunik Lazro, B. Duboc and
Makoto Sato, Richard Comte and Simon H. Fell, the Barbares quartet with
Jean-Marc Foussat, C. Bopp, M. Sato...
