Bio

After being introduced by my great-aunt Denise Baldensperger to listening to and recognizing composers of European classical music from the age of 5, and then taking guitar lessons, particularly on medieval music, my brother Stephen introduced me to experimental music, to avant-garde artistic movements such as Dadaism, Fluxus , and Pop Art, which opened me up to different fields of perception.
So I watched in silence, with great admiration, as my brother sewed improbable, colorful costumes on my mother's old Singer sewing machine, knitting with wire while listening to Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Père Ubu, The Residents, and also Eric Satie, John Cage, La Monte Young, and Luciano Berio. My apprenticeship in tape editing always began with a long, ritualistic silence before the meticulous cutting of my favorite cassettes. Stephen would ask me to randomly pull out the small pieces and splice them back together, which, according to him, was the destructive process necessary for creation. Was this a subterfuge to get some peace and quiet, or to provoke the instinct for rebellion within me, to pull me out of the silence in which I was entrenched? Convinced it was some kind of magician's trick, and I was the apprentice, I meticulously set about piecing each fragment back together, trying to recreate the original melody. This had the opposite effect. With a few simple movements, Stephen detached all the fragments and, sitting beside me, asked me to randomly pull out the magnetic pieces for the collage. To his astonishment, despite the somewhat chaotic rhythms, he recognized the original melody.

These experiments with Cut-Up on magnetic tape, a writing technique of William S. Burroughs , where chance plays a determining role in the processes of indeterminacy advocated by John Cage , allowed me to create a link between the methodologies of Musique Concrète and Soundscape to seek, in addition to the typomorphology of the sound object, to give sound back its voice; the small internal life of sound, its allure.

Engaging in dialogue with the living world will undoubtedly be the revolution of the 21st century for Generation Alpha, mutating like a multifaceted chimera and serenely confronting discrimination of all kinds, a source of creative evolution.