via Fabriquefrom Matmos:
"the 'Coupigny' modular synthesizer housed in the INA/GRM studios at RadioFrance in Paris and used extensively by some of the titans of
musique-concrete."
Update via Fabrique:
"It seems so as many composers in residence at GRM have recently requested to use it after it was unearthed by composer Christian Zanesi. Built in 66, it has been used by Parmegiani (La Roue Ferris), Bayle, Berio, Schaeffer... (in french) [and Googlish]
And it appears he also built a video effect unit used by Martial Raysse and other artists (Note : Francois not Francis might be a typo):
"1968 - Creation of the GRI (Groupe de Recherche Image) at the ORTF under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. François Coupigny develops the "truqueur universel" (universal special effects device), which is used by Martial Raysse, Peter Foldès, and Jean-Paul Cassagnac for attempts at coloring the video image from black-and-white images."
http://newmedia-arts.net/english/reperes-h/60.htm
Another article that mentions Francis Coupigny:
"The two most brilliant technicians who worked with Pierre Schaeffer were Francis Poullin, in the early 1950s, who developed the phonogène and the morphophone, and Francis Coupigny, in the 1960s, who created the console and the integrated synthesiser."
http://www.furious.com/Perfect/ohm/inagrm.html"
Is this used on Supreme Balloon? I wonder when/if we might ever be able to hear it... I didn't know something like this existed at INA/GRM!
ReplyDeleteThis is an intriguing instrument which seems was part of a mixing console with integrated synthesizer. But it was not well received at that time by Schaeffer according to wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteWe must remember this synth also was used by the Ukranian artist Kateryna Zavoloka in the album "Viter"; in MySpace we could see pictures using it.
Francis Compigny was complety crazy and worked with outdated technologies, for example in the 70's he was still using RTL digital technologies when every body uses TTL and ECL, result the Coupigny design dont have the performances they will have if designed with contemporary technologies.
ReplyDeleteThe man is very rude and unfriendly, taking property of designs made by other ingeeniers working with him, he is smoking cigars with TERRIBLE smell
Francis Coupiny is a thief , saying that the things developped and invented by engineers working with him and under his authority were developped by HIM, He is forcing engineers to use out of date technologies the results is very low performances of all the design far from what is possible if the uptodate technology was used,
ReplyDeleteThe solution to maintain is notoriety is to fire the working engineers every 2 or 3 years and hire new ones so he can say HE is the inventor
The man is rude, impolite