François Cotinaud
François Cotinaud, is a French saxophonist and clarinetist, composer and soundpainter, born in Casablanca, 9 August 1956. Biography. François Cotinaud studied music with Alan Silva, Cecil Taylor, George Russell, 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. Composer. From the age of 8, François Cotinaud wrote down on a notebook the melodies, the musical phrases he invented. In 1975, the pedagogue Alan Silva makes his students work with motives that are to decline in musical modes, and makes them write their improvisations. François Cotinaud will continue this work  by writing hundreds of themes for the groups he belongs to, both for pedagogy and for professional purposes. From 1989, everything converges around more elaborate constructions, creating precise universes, and already around the poetic work of Raymond Queneau, then Victor Hugo, a research that will extend until 2017 with ensemble Luxus. In 2007, his compositions for clarinet and cello with Deborah Walker (Dedalus ensemble), turned towards a more contemporary, chiseled writing. Begins a series of studies for clarinet, which have only the name, since the architecture, the articulation with the Lydian system of George Russell, and the melodic virtuosity make  it a concert experience. He received a commission for a cappella mixed choir by the festival "Les Voix des Cairns » (Quiberon, France), and founded his own publishing company in 2021 : Poetica Vivace editions. Pedagogy. 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. Pieces for clarinet "Oreille-Caresse", "Jadis-Plume", "Puit-Lumière", "Eclat-Noir", "Cristal-Feuille", "Epi-Tambour", "Singe-Lune", "Bleu-Orange", "Phénix" ( Lydian progressive studies volumes 1, 2 and 3) commissioned by Poetica Vivace Publisching, 2019-2020 Pieces for saxophone "Inventaire", "Mode à la joie", "Boire", "Oribe", "Obéir" (around Sequenza IX by Luciano Berio) 1998 Pieces for pour various duos "La perte", "Poetica Vivace", "Dialogue", "Hypothesis", "Temps perdu" (cello-clarinet) 2007-2008 "Pluie-Chemin" (flute-clarinet) 2019 – 2’40’’ "Ombre-Jardin" (piece for clarinet and bass-clarinet) 2020 - 2’25’’ Pieces for voice, harp and  clarinet/tenor saxophone "J'ai rarement vu", "Des goûts et des couleurs", P"auvre Jean", "Toujours dans la chaussure?", 2009 Pieces for voice, clarinet/tenor saxophone and electric guitar "Crier le Hasard", "Prodige", "Éternité", "Verwandlung", "La Bête", "spiegele Malerei" (around the sonnets to Orpheus of Rainer Maria Rilke), commissioned by label Musivi, 2015 – 30’ Little jazz ensembles "Le Crotoy" (1983), "Casa del sol", "Acrobaties", "Dix-huit carats", "Princesse", "Temakatamawo", (1989), "Métakynesis" (1990), "Ficus", "Voix interdites", "Pyramides", "Circus" (1992), "Jeux de mains" (1994) "Algorithme", "Topologie d'un manège", "Diagramme", "Hologram", "Le pendule du Fou", "Monoïd", "I Would like to be Free", "Mes filles" commissioned  by label Musivi, 2013 – 58’39’’ Big jazz ensemble "Chasse-mouche" (1983), "Ilperel", "Indigo", "Tishri" (1998), "Terre libre" commissioned by Orchestre de Jazz Départemental - Seine Saint-Denis 2004 "No it is open on one position" commissioned by Orchestre de Jazz Départemental - Seine Saint-Denis 2005 World premiere "Mue du Monde" for 72 children choir and jazz ensemble, on the composer's poetry, commissioned by DRAC Champagne-Ardenne 2006 "Et le diable a tremblé...", "Listes en vrac" commissioned by département de la Seine Saint-Denis, 2014 "Like" et "Vous m'avez dit", sur un poème d'Emile Verhaeren commissioned by département de la Seine  Saint-Denis, 2018 Jazz ensembles and improvised music, with poetry "Le festin des ogres", "Jambe de Dieu", "Danse avec les fous" (pieces around Victor Hugo) 1995, "Traversée de la page", "Suppositions", "Le calligraphe du vide" (words by Franz Bartelt), "la Sieste", "Les Généreuses" (words by Dominique Pagnier and François Rabelais), "Épouvantails" (words by André Velter) 1999 "Déchiffrage", "Modestie", "Art Popo", "Marine", "Silence Coi", "Rush", (words by Raymond Queneau), Text'up, Ydol Nabdous (words by the composer) commissioned by label Musivi 2002 "Enfance", "Parade", "Voyelles", "Being Beauteous", "À la Musique", "Rêvé pour l’hiver", "The Bridges", "Barbare", "Démocratie" (words by Arthur Rimbaud), commissioned  by label Musivi 2005 "Je vis, je meurs", written on the famous poetry of Louise Labé 2018 traditional arrangements or pieces "Mis amigos me dan esperanza", judish-spanish traditional arrangements 2000, Deki, El rey que tanto madruga 2004 Pieces for ensemble "Variations sur une collection de timbres" 2010 "Monologue de Schönberg", "Palette Cage" (Klangfarben ensemble) commissioned by label Musivi, 2012 Fleeting Patterns (2013) "Onomatopée", "Tadouda-ta", "AcrabilA" (Klangfarben ensemble) commissioned by ville de Chelles, 2016 "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" (ensemble Multilatérale) with Benjamin de la Fuente, commissioned by label Musivi ; 2017 – 51’ "Ocre-vent" (violin/clarinet/tuba/piano) 2’10’’, "Vague-Lune" (violin/clarinet/tuba/ piano) 2020 – 4’43’’ Pieces for choir a cappella World premiere "Orpheus" : "Un temple dans l'écoute", "Elle était une enfant", "Le pavot des morts", triptych for a capella mixed choir, commissioned by the DRAC Bretagne 2021 – 13’ Pieces for choir and piano "Exotica" on the Charles Baudelaire's poetry : "Parfum exotique" 2’47’’ "Sommeil paradoxal" on the Arthur Rimbaud's poetry : "Le Dormeur du Val", 2021 – 4’24’’ References. 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