richard comte
guitar
Richard Comte is a guitarist composer and producer active in the improvised music scene since 2005. He employs contemporary music compositional concepts and free improvisation processes combined with noise rock energy and sounds. Influenced by Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Glenn Branca and Steven O’Malley, his guitar playing is focused on the sonic possibilities of his instrument, he uses resonances and textures created by prepared guitar, analogue treatments and a custom sound diffusion system. He is a sonic sculptor, drawing timeless spaces - from loud immersive drones to spacious resonances bordering on silence itself. His work is a powerful and very personal sensory sound experience.
He is a co-founder of the bands Hippie Diktat, Roue Libre, Vegan Dallas and he is part of bands such as AUM Grand Ensemble, PoulainJars in addition to playing in many improv shows.
He has played with Simon H. Fell, Mark Sanders, Shabaka Hutchings, Mars Williams, Jim Black, Jozef Dumoulin, Jasper Stadhouders, Makoto Sato, Alex Ward and many more…
He also works in the field of contemporary composed music and took part in the creation of pieces by Eliane Radigue, Michael Pissaro , Juan Pablo Carreño and he also interpreted Fausto Romitelli’s solo piece « Trash Tv Trans » during the DA festival in 2016.
The dimension of space of his music has led him naturally into many collaborations with contemporary dance, theatre, performance and visual arts.
His production work comes from the inner necessity of handling the sound from the conception to the mastering and brings him to a lot of collaborations which both match and feed his musical field musical experience (especially in « Jungenstill I & II » for the New York label ESP with Chris Speed, Lee Konitz Chris Cheek, Stephane Furic and Jim Black, and the « BOAT » recording series for the Belgium label RAT with Nate Wooley Andrew D’Angelo, Marc Ducret, Trevor Dunn).
Since 2017 he runs NUNC. an independent label dedicated to liberated and open music, centered on the experience of sound.
