Jean-Marc Foussat is an ex-guitarist, now an electroacoustic improviser playing an AKS synthesiser, and a sound recordist. He was born in Oran, Algeria, in 1955. He started out playing guitar in the mid-1970s in a number of experimental prog-rock bands, and soon became interested in EMS synthesizers. A sound recordist who gradually moved away from his first groups and the guitar, he worked a lot on magnetic tape on his own, practising collage and rather concrete music in the studio. At the beginning of the 80s, his encounter with Evan Parker, Paul Lovens and their friends was decisive. He decided that from then on he would only play improvised music. He first got involved in 1992, playing with J-F. Pauvros and M. Sato in Marteau Rouge, then, from 2010 onwards, in an even freer and more independent way... In another register, helping Jacques Oger, he co-founded late 1996 Potlatch, a label in which he played an active part until 2000, then waited a while before setting up his own label, FOU Records, in 2012.