L’ouïe, Louis, l’oui
Bruit TTV
Our collective has lost some of its soul, ideas, and footing with the death of its founder Louis Ouellet. Death is an ingredient of the cycle of life, and here we are born again just long enough to tell him two words. L’ouïe Louis L’oui is an oratorio made in his style, which we have inherited to some extent. Integrating sound sequences created at a distance solely from textual material and developed in the studio over the course of three jam sessions, it is a “louitany” from which only he is missing.
On the occasion of the Marginal festival initiated by À l’est de vos empires, Avatar opens the doors of its studio for a weekend, inviting the public to discover the oratorio L’ouïe, Louis, l’oui, a sound work that explores the hybrid forms of audible performance, sound excavation and literature.
L’ouïe, Louis, l’oui of the Collectif Bruit TTV is co-distributed by Avatar and À l’est de vos empires, on the occasion of the Marginal festival.”
November 8 to 10, 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm non-stop
Avatar (541, rue Saint-Vallier Est)
Bruit TTV
Bruit TTV is a noise collective that had two incarnations. Louis launched the first initiative, which was predominately saxophonist, in the context of the interdisciplinary department at Cégep Limoilou, where he was teaching at the time. The second developed with the creation of the Obscure multidisciplinary art cooperative in 1982, of which he was a founding member. Louis played a major role in this cooperative of artists dedicated to multidisciplinary creation and dissemination, particularly in the areas of experimental music and film.
Bruit TTV is composed of Gilles Arteau, Georges Azzaria, Robert Faguy, Fabrice Montal, Louis Ouellet, and Jocelyn Robert. Many other people have joined the core group for different projects, such as Myriam Lambert who contributed to the current production. France Deslauriers was the regular sound technician. Over the years, this second incarnation with its variable geometry has created non-music music and unclassiable performances, some of which have been distributed on various media and presented in a range of venues in Quebec and Canada.
Earlier Bruit TTV recordings
La Castafiore was conceived by Louis and inspired by Tintin and Michel Serres. Its subtitle is Suite inachevée pour B.D. et instruments triturés [Unnished Suite for Comic Strip and Crushed Instruments]. Code d’accès commissioned the concert for their Électro-Communications series. Marc Tremblay, Tim Brady, and Clément Topping contributed to the presentation of this work. It was recorded at the CBC, under the impetus of Mario Gauthier, at the time the host of a radio program dedicated to sound creation. The other works, initially grouped under the simple title Bruit TTV, most often began with a main idea of one of the collective’s members, then developed with the contribution of the rest during many exploratory sessions. These works were part of a Canadian tour in 1991.
Now deprived of a major limb, the collective persists, accepting its phantom pain.
