Marc Ducret

Born 1957; self-taught.
1975 to 1983: dance bands, folklore and studio work. 1983-1989: forms his own groups and plays with D.Humair, M.Portal, J.Kühn, H.Texier, D.Frieman, L.Schneider, A.Emler, A.Nussbaum, D.Lockwood. Concerts, tours and festivals in Germany, France, Italy, Japan, India, Africa.

1986: member of the first French National Jazz Orchestra; first recordings as a leader. 1990's: Tours with Tim Berne, and L.Sclavis/D.Pifarély's Acoustic quartet (ECM). Tours and recordings with B.Previte, J.Baron, D.Sanborn, D.Bates.

Solo performances and recordings, trio with B.Chevillon and E.Echampard, Big Satan with T.Berne and T.Rainey, other groups with T.Berne (Bloodcount, Science Friction), tours and recording with H.Roberts and J.Black.

Soloist in M.Monnet's opera Pan; concerts in China and recording of Sous le ciel with six traditional Chinese musicians. Collaborations with the Copenhagen Art Ensemble (Denmark) and Ensemble Cairn (France).

Numerous workshops and master classes (France: CNSM, Cité de la Villette, residency at Tours university; Germany: Musikhochschule Köln, Italy, Portugal, England, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, USA).

Interested in all kinds of musical and nonmusical means of expression, Ducret plays - besides regular acoustic and electric guitar - acoustic and electric 12-string, fretless, baritone, soprano, 8-string... His interest in literature and theater led him to record Qui Parle? (Sketch), in which voices and music, text and rhythm were closely interwoven; in 92 the project Seven songs from the sixties was an attempt at re-creating with 10 musicians some famous - or less famous - pop songs, as seen through the lens of time passed; in 2008, Happy together (commissioned by the city of Bobigny) celebrated (!) in music and more the fortieth anniversary of May 68.

Other projects (le Sens de la Marche (illusions 2008), for 11 musicians), Chantier III (commissioned by Ensemble Cairn), Tapage (commissioned by festival de Monte Carlo), Pour mémoire (festival Présences, Radio France) deal more specifically with reflexions on rhythm and memory, whereas the current project Un sang d'encre, led simultaneously in France and Denmark with different constellations of various artists from all disciplines, has Kafka's In der Strafkolonie, Sleeping Beauty and reports by Catholic priests from the 16th century interact with music, dance, video and more...

During the 2012 edition of the GAS-Festival, Marc will perform as part The RELAY MEETING 2012. Read more about this concept right here.