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A guitarrist who uses fretless electric instrument and 12 strings, and mostly the skill to increase the timbric capacity through an aware use of electronic ability, the french Franck Vigroux is one of the young musicians who can choose different contexts, without being involved in the role of the virtuoso guitar player. His chords offer the occasion to travel in the non-formal fields, beside concrete music and improvvisation (but not only this). His groups join different non orthodox musicians from the South France: a Duo with Ned Evett, a quartet, Könntest, with Michel Blanc, Stephane Trepp and Cecile Rives, and a large ensemble with Steve Lawson e Jérome Cury. Your music seems to move in different perspectives inside collective improvisation and open form through different relationships between sounds and voices. Do you think this can be a good key to represent your work? Not really, for me each project is different, I try
new instrumentations any time I record something new. I am as child
who likes to "play". About improvisation I consider that
it's an half of my work, no more. I like particularly the interaction
between both improvised and written music. Most of the Könntest
music is semi-written, the rhythm and drums parts are written, structure
too, approximatively, or very precisely. It's only once we control
these parameters, then we can start to improvise. And there is still
a lot of place for it. Guitar is not the central item, but one of the different elements of your music. How do you compose then? Simply, a record is a not a concert. I play a lot of times, too many probably. And I don't like so much guitar timbre, but it's my instrument and it's too late to change. I have no particular secret to compose, things come or not. Actually I am working on a future records made of "voices collages" and string quartet. It's pretty challenging for me to write music without one guitar notes. This music is a mix of electronic, musique concrete, written string quartet and improvised trombone. Is it a part of the trilogy you called Lilas? By the way, what is inspired to? By unrooted and separated people, and by this world always self destroying. That could be also the story of two people during a war, it can be 60 years ago, now or later... Producing, promoting, organizing events, do you think this could be the future for musicians without big structures like records industry? The only thing I know is that Art will be probably not a priority for western goverments in the next decade. I have the chance to work exclusively in the music, teaching and promoting etc... But, of course, I would prefer only to work on my own music! That's life and at least I am free to create what I want, even if it's very difficult to do everything by yourself. How much Internet has determinated this development for you? Every body knows that Internet music sales are still very low, that's seems very logic, because to buy a object is to hand it first. But internet allow so much connections between passionate people. That's very important for those who make what you call "altremusiche". Which are you plans for future? In the very close future the release of three new albums: the first is an acoustic trio with Cecile Rives (voice) and Noël Akchote (guitar) that will be release on my Label (D'Autres Cordes, www.digitrucstudio.com). Next are the untitled electronic/string quartet works and a duo with Michel Blanc (drums) plus guests. Also the Evett/Vigroux duo will tour in the US in february to present our album (Empty Beach records/Burnside Records). I should be in Italy in july for the "Seichitarresole festival", maybe a tour will follow there.
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