FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

Jean-Marc Duchenne

Jean-Marc Duchenne is a French composer, sound and video artist and spatial sound researcher born in 1959.
Since the 1980s, he has devoted himself to acousmatic creation, later joined by that of digital image.
Whether in his installations or during original interventions, in the series of "Préludes à l'espace" or in his long "Voyages en acousmonef", his works are often conceived as "real virtuality" worlds to explore, "acousworlds" rich in images and sensations that constantly oscillate between narrative and plastic, spatial constructions and stories for the ears.
The diversity of listening situations, the tangibility of sound spaces, the loudspeaker proximity with listeners are all research axes that led him to develop his own production and diffusion tools, such as the Acousmonef – a 80.4 channels volumetric space in which he organizes concerts and training sessions –, the series of high definition multichannel plugins Acousmodules since 2003, and the lightweight and multiform loudspeaker ensembles that constitute the acousmobiles.
He has taught acousmatic composition, sound techniques and spatialization in various schools, universities and training organizations.