Devant
Limited edition cassette & download released by La Cohu, Victoriaville (Canada), October 2013.
Available here
An exploration of no-input mixing boards as solo instruments.
Press Release
Experimental musician CE François Couture releases a first physical album of noisy electronic music on Victoriaville-based cassette label La Cohu. Devant is available as a limited-edition cassette and as a digital download on La Cohu’s bandcamp site.
Devant is the follow-up to Vie cachée, CE François Couture digital-only debut self-released in 2012. For Devant, the artist has narrowed his instrumentation to focus on the art of the no-input mixing desk, with which he sculpts ever-more complex feedbacks. While Vie cachée consisted mostly in overdubbed free improvisations, Devant features real-time free improvisations on two mixing desks.
To coincide with the release of Devant, CE François Couture will perform a short set at ArtFocus, 95 King Ouest, Sherbrooke (Quebec) on Friday, November 15, 2013, as one of two opening acts for the Rimouski-based improvisers orchestra Le GGRIL. The show starts at 8 pm. For the occasion, the artist is producing very limited CD-R editions of Vie cachée and a new duo project with Stéphane Rocheleau.
CE François Couture is also a member of the duo FBFC, whose debut album will come out in early 2014.
CE François Couture also reviews music under the name Monsieur Délire (http://blog.monsieurdelire.com), and he produces and hosts the radio shows Délire musical and Délire actuel at CFLX 95.5 FM in Sherbrooke.
Details
Recorded at home, January 2013
CE François Couture: mixing desks, old synth
Cover artwork by Charles Barabé