text: 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, 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 
  
  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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  Category:Living people
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  Category:People from Casablanca
  Category:French jazz clarinetists
  Category:French jazz saxophonists
  Category:Male saxophonists
  Category:Members of Sōka Gakkai
  Category:21st-century saxophonists
  Category:21st-century clarinetists
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