he lives and works in quebec.
he is a poet, a sound artist and a performance and voice researcher.
his artistic work comes from many different sources and reaches many different directions. he works in multimedia by mixing voice, guttural work, visual poetry, animation and sound experimentation. 
between 1978 and 1981, he was part of the inter/le lieu group in quebec, with whom he organised exhibitions, creative activities and editions. in 1993 he co-founded avatar, a group of artists who work with electronic and sound art; they have a research studio and a record label, ohm.
he works on the borderlines of sound and language, transformed by the macchina ricordi, an "a-sound evolution generator", conceived by himself in avatar. from variable bucles, delays and superimpositions, his pieces become a permanent changing sound continuum captured in real timing. when performing, he simultaneously works with audio and video supports, always helped by his device, the macchina ricordi and its manipulative possibilities. 
nowadays his work is focused on art and sound poetry. he has presented it in canada, the united states and europe. as an interdisciplinary artist, he produces objects, books, phonograms, visual poetry -writing and text as images, copy-art and installations. he has published in the following magazines: Inter, doc(k)s, baobab, rampike, and estuaire. he has edited more than 7 albums on his own, with record labels like obz, ohm and generator.
undoubtedly he is one of the most polyhedric and interdisciplinary artists and one of the best representatives of modern sound poetry in canada, together with artists like paul dutton, nobuo kubota (who attended PROPOSTA 2001) and mark sutherland.

discography

cd solo: 

transfuge (cd audio) and transfuge a/v (video cd), ohm/avatar, quebec, 2002
eutectic, Generator, GA-2 (adventures in structured noise), new york, 2000
les machines animales i/and le livre sonore, ohm/avatar, quebec, 1999 
eres+21, ohm/avatar, quebec, 1997
eres+16, obz, québec, 1995
eres+7, obz, quebec, 1993


compilations (cd, vinyl) : 

"yere", in stimmen und klänge der lautpoesie (book+cd), by christian scholz and urs engeler, germany, 2002. 
"le retour du chariot", in dame~superboom, montréal, 2001.
"s'abolir", in 70 minutes de poésie en l'an 2000, revue son@rt #16, paris, 2000.
"lsé-tu chsé pas", in homo sonorus, sound poetry anthology (4 cd), by dmitry bulatov (curator), kaliningrad (russia), 2001.
"un dimanche analogue", in collage jukebox 2.1, http://homestudio.thing.net/jukebox/, avril 2001.
"l'espace outre", dans le son des images, le son comme réflexion sur l'image photographique, quebec, december 1999.
"un dimanche analogue", in doc(k)s son, série 3, nos 17-20, ajaccio, 1998.
"compost", with jocelyn robert, christofe migone, eric létourneau, ohm/avatar, quebec, 1997.
"le reel de l'anniversaire de l'art (et autres pièces sonores)", in compilation du 1,000,033e anniversaire de l'art, le lieu (centre en art actuel), quebec, 1996.
ding dong deluxe, 10 pieces of no more than 20 seconds in a compiltaion of 99 short works, ohm-avatar, québec, 1994.
unbecoming, an international compilation, toronto, 1993.
bus sub, in collaboration with rik delhaas, 1990.
canada-italy , ed. 3vitrepair, italy, 1987.
in memoriam g. maciunas, ed. intervention, quebec, 1985.


cassettes:

"chamomix", in momo, vol.1 (voci, suoni & rumori della poesia), giovanni fontana (curator), frosinone (italy), 1996.
"dans le seau", in baobab, no 23 (l'in/canto del verso), sound anthology (4 cassettes), italy, 1994.
"birds and borders", audio collage edited by rod summers, vec audio, holland, 1992.
Sound symposium 1990, cassette compilation by don wherry and wallace hammond, terre-neuve, 1990.
Musique de cendre, cassette compilation, extracts from destival de musique ennuyante, quebec, 1988.
inter k-7 '87 , ed. intervention, quebec, 1987.
in another context , banned production, fremont (california), 1986.
neoson(g) cabaret , ed. intervention, quebec.

sites internet: 

www.meduse.org/avatar
www.ubu.com/sound/arcand.html
www.actuellecd.com
www.allmusic.com