Born in Montréal in 1970, Marc Couroux has been acclaimed as one of the leading performers of his generation. His musical work has been centered around the reinvention and renewal of modern concert ritual, challenging the received and seldom questioned notion of the performer's physical presence within the sociopolitical confines of the concert. He believes that public performance is already an inherently political act and from there follows a striking series of works committed to reclaiming a critical function for art in society.

In 1999, he created two monumental new piano works: Quelques monuments de la Rue Ste-Catherine and American Dreaming, a 56 minute work dedicated to the memory of filmmaker John Cassavetes. In May 2000, he premiered le contrepoint académique (sic) at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, a work described as "controversial", "extreme sport", "demented", "illuminated"...and that's just from one critic. In June 2003, he premiered The Wrong Technique at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Holland), a work amplifying the idiosyncrasies inherent in the modern music business, where mannerism and image trumps content. Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan's "medium is the message" theory has had a lasting impact on Couroux's work.

As video artist, Couroux is concerned with creating metaphorical spaces where sociopolitical issues can be explored. His Rockford - Keep on Rolling superimposes the familiar images from the popular 1970's TV show onto a power grid, reflecting the other Los Angeles, plunged into rolling blackouts during the California Energy Crisis of 2000.

In November 2001, Couroux opened the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland with a work called The Pursuit of Canadian Character, for video and piano. In September 2003, Couroux presented a new work for piano and video entitled Public Relations (P.R.) at the Society for Art and Technology in Montréal.

In October 2003, Couroux premiered a work for piano and 17 speakers, Blowback at Breakfast: a Dr. Kissinger Mystery, a Watergate-era environment centered around wiretapping and surveillance, with Henry Kissinger as main protagonist, reciting testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while leaking vital secrets to the audience.

In 2004, with the help of an Inter-Arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Couroux will conceive a building-size installation at the CCA-Glasgow, which will incorporate various media : documentary, cartoon, performance art, concert music and advertisements. This work, to be entitled Frontline, will present the spectator with the opportunity to closely analyze the various forms of filtration which mass media effectuate on information transmitted within the "global village".

Couroux is also at work on a new large-scale film using the media coverage of the Second Gulf War as prime source material. Called Schlock and Art, the film is slated for a December premiere in Montréal. His short film Wellstone, in memory of the late senator from Minnesota, will be screened in early 2004 in various locations.

Marc Couroux has been Artist-in-Residence at Princeton University in 1996 (through the National Endowment for the Arts), at the 1996 Domaine Forget Summer Course for New Music (in the north of Québec) and at the 1993-94 June in Buffalo Festivals.

Marc Couroux formed FreeRadical Productions in 2003 and organized the FreeRadicals festival in March 2003, dedicated to experimental multidisciplinary work.