"There are no animations to accompany Louis Laurain's solo but the extended technique lends itself to imagined visual equivalent in its synchronicity with the noise of everyday life. At some point the battlefield gameshow come to mind. With cartoon explosions as the cornet enters his death throes "
Deborah Nash, The Wire.
Cornet solo that combines repetitive rhythm, DIY mutes, small percussion and bird calls stuck into the pipes. I started working on this new set during the first months of the pandemic, mostly outdoors because I couldn't work at home. The idea caught on and I made a first live version in August 2020, in forest. Since then I've been playing this set in all types of places : bars, nature, parties, large resonant spaces, people's homes, and hip places of the experimental music scene such as Café Oto, Sonic Protest, Echos, Instants Chavirés...
- Le Bargy -
Three:four Records 2023 (CD/Tape)
Slightly conceptual, this record is an attempt to map out, with a cornet, the different acoustic spaces of a mountain in the Alps. The record is called le Bargy, the name of the mountain. In the record you can hear cornet, rocks, waterfalls, echoes, birds nesting, toads, water drops in a large cave, a shepherd, music and mountain cows with their bells.
A movie in 16mm by Léa Lanoé