Jean-Baptiste Cognet

Jean-Baptiste Cognet is a french musician based in Saint-Étienne (France). He's graduated from Lyon conservatory and Lyon "Lumière" university. Founder and member of Walter Dean project (audiovisual performance alongside Guillaume Marmin and Carla Pallone) and Memorial* (poetic and musical performances alongside Clément Bondu), Jean-Baptiste Cognet also collaborates as a composer and performer for the theater (Thierry Jolivet, Marion Pellissier, Ambre Kahan or Laurent Brethome ...), cinema (Adrien Selbert, Florian Bardet or Pierre Giafferi ...) and more recently for digital arts (Guillaume Marmin, David Debrinay...). Articulated around a repetitive writing process, his work feeds on ambient sensations, noise textures, lyrical synthesizers, while giving pride of place to the legacy claimed from pop to techno. From large ensembles (the fresco Nous qui avions perdu le monde for 10 musicians) to small bands (Regular solo, or Walter