Pascal Battus

Sound artist, improviser, composer, Pascal Battus develops a sound practice more attentive to the sound gesture, to listening and to the situation that determines them than to a defined instrument: the guitar pick-up (guitar microphone without guitar), rotating surfaces, the “surrounded” guitar (electric guitar on table + contact microphone + various objects + electronics), percussion (amplified or not objects)… Numerous recordings with among others Bertrand Gauguet, Christine Abdelnour, Seijiro Murayama, Dafne, Vicente-Sandoval, Alfred Costa Monteiro, Jean-Luc Guionnet…