"Cyprien and Bertrand have been playing together for several years. Their music, improvised, sober and tenuous, invites the listener to immerse himself in a state of intense listening. The materials of the viola and the saxophone cross, criss-cross, detach, move away and come closer as in a game of chase where each movement transforms the landscape, where each variation in the sound of the viola and the saxophone transforms the landscape, where each variation of light modifies the environment in an imperceptible way."-Akousis Records

Cyprien Busolini: After a classical training, Cyprien Busolini turned to contemporary music and improvisation, two poles around which his work revolves. Improvisation allows him to work on other sound fields and to explore his instrument in a more personal way, notably on non-melodic and non-harmonic parameters but more focused on the material of the sound. He is a member of the Dedalus and Onceim ensembles. He also plays with the Fratres ensemble, an early music ensemble (baroque- classical) on early instruments.

Bertrand Gauguet is a French musician based in Paris. He plays the alto saxophone in solo or collective contexts of improvisation of new music. Also a composer of electronic music, he has produced many original pieces and soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio. He also makes field recordings for radio broadcasts, films and live performance devices. His interests explore the interplay of frequencies and their refraction, multiphony, sounds at the thresholds of audibility, breath and more broadly sound as a medium for meditation. His discography to date includes some twenty albums published by European labels. He was laureate of the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2011. Collaborations with Sophie Agnel, Tetuzi Akiyama, Pascal Battus, Mike Bullock, Cyprien Busolini, Xavier Charles, Michel Doneda, Isabelle Duthoit, Ensemble Un, Grands Lacs, Andy Guhl, Franz Hautzinger, Robin Hayward, Insub Meta Orchestra, Thomas Korber, Eric La Casa, Thomas Lehn, Toshimaru Nakamura, Eddie Prevost, Carol Robinson, Tetsu Saïtoh, John Tilbury. Composers : Éliane Radigue, Kasper T. Toeplitz. Film Makers : Christian Barani, Anne Durez, Christian Merlhiot. Choreographers : Catherine Contour, Sophiatou Kossoko, Sidonie Rochon.

AKOUSIS RECORDSFrench label dedicated since 2020 to new and experimental improvised music: Pascal Battus, Cyprien Busolini, Bertrand Gauguet, John Tilbury, Xavier Charles. It is also a collaboration with the graphic designers Ter Bekke & Behage Studio based in Paris and various contemporary artists whose abstract works are favoured: Guillaume Dégé, Pierre Mabille, Peter Soriano and Paul Collins. For each record, a work of art is chosen as a visual echo to the music.