TRISTAN FAUSTT
BiographIE
Tristan Faustt won the 2021 call for projects for Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités, Gérard Hourbette's legendary piece for Art Zoyd. In 2023, he is working on the soundtrack for a short film by Anthony Rousseau, DES_CONSTRUCTIONS, a co-production between the Combo association and Art Zoyd Studios.
From a childhood spent amidst a jazz saxophonist's collections of world music instruments, there remains a taste for improvised languages and exploration. Introduced to the electric guitar at an early age, it was literature and philosophy that first won him over.
At the same time, a number of movements were underway: electronic music and synthesizer performances in Paris squats (La Miroiterie, La Générale...), notably by visual artists Benjamin Efrati and Marin Esteban, which led to the Salon d'Art Contemporain de Montrouge.
My first forays into more or less alternative rock projects took me from club to club to the Café de la Danse. A studio musician for a while, it was my decisive meeting with Jacques Erwan (Libération, Radio France, Le Printemps de Bourges) that opened the doors to chanson and the Théâtre de la Ville. La Batterie pôle musique, Arcadi and La Région Île-de-France helped me develop my projects and ideas.
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Live performances with my collective French Connection Manifesto made it possible to work with artists as varied as Vox Low, Mademoiselle K, Ignatus, Équipe de Foot, Stuck In The Sound, Grand Blanc, Pauline Drand and Etsuko Chida, but gradually the aesthetic changed, and soon the Tristan Faustt project took shape, with a single idea in mind: to return to the exploration of the early days, while retaining what I'd learned from song. To push back the walls a little further towards electronic music, jazz and noise, while maintaining a pop feel wherever possible. Wherever legitimate, offering escapes into freer forms of music.
In May 2021, I'm lucky enough to be the winner of Art Zoyd Studios' call for projects, which gives rise to a commission from the creation center. On the program, an electronic escape for synthesizers, percussion and mellotrons, based on Gérard Hourbette's Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités. The work was recorded on the In-Possible Records label, and released in a boxed set featuring the various versions of the piece.
In 2022, the Alice Total project began, a live album for electronics and video projections calibrated for non-equipped venues, whose first track was released on March 17, 2023 on all platforms, distributed by Kuroneko.
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