Courant Zéro - Solari (2026)

Courant Zéro is the new moniker of Montréal multi-media installation artist and Kohlenstofflabel co-founder Maxime Corbeil-Perron, signalling his return to purely recording-basedelectronic music production following several years focused on award-winningexperimental film and audio-visual works. Solari channels his cinematic sensibility anddecade-long exploration of sound art and electroacoustic counterpoint into deep cuts ofmaximalist ambient electronica. Drawing on his early background as a pianist and jazzdrummer, Corbeil-Perron weaves a fabric of melodic and rhythmic vectors with his uniquetimbral palette, intersecting modern composition, IDM, ambient, glitch, and noise on adebut album brimming with sonic detail and emotive resonance.A fixture of Montréal's sound art community as both creator and curator since the early2010s, Corbeil-Perron's work has ranged from "hypnotic A/V onslaught" (FACT Magazine)to the "richly nuanced acousmatic journey" of his 2018 EP Polychrome (Bandcamp BestContemporary Classical Of The Month), with earlier electronic and techno-adjacent projectslike Political Ritual, Dresden, and Le poisson d'argent garnering accolades from avant-musicoutlets A Closer Listen, Silence and Sound, and Musicworks, among others. Courant Zéromobilizes this cumulative wealth of explorative sonic experience in the service of distinctivecompositional architectures and electronic music pathways that fans of Floating Points,Jan Jelinek, Squarepusher, Tim Hecker, and Oneohtrix Point Never should find compelling.Title track "Solari" opens the album with a cavernous ambient glitch-drone soundscapethat envelops ever-shifting timbres of modular arpeggiation, serving as introduction tothe clarion call of "En deçà du réel", an homage to video artist Manon Labrecque, wherelayers of interweaving melodic counterpoint played on Buchla and other synths slowlybuild to widescreen immersive intensities; "I have this vision of Labreque vibratingeternally between two frames of m...