Philippe Franck (Fr/Be)

12 November 2019 City Sonic

Philippe Franck also intervenes as Paradise Now, a multidisciplinary project that he has developed since the 90s in an actively and poetically transversal and collaborative approach.

Conference / Listening-shares | Introduction to the sound arts

Since the 2013 edition of the City Sonic festival, the “Listening-shares” are meetings with music lover personalities (musicians, critics, artists, cultural leaders…) who, for about an hour, share their passion on themes related with sound practices illustrated by commented audio excerpts.

Philippe Franck will give an introduction to diversity (of forms, aesthetics, approaches…) of the sound arts with historical reminders as well as recent examples, many of which were presented in the City Sonic festival he initiated in 2003.

Biography

Art historian, essayist, critic, teacher, sound and intermedia artist, Philippe Franck is Director of Transcultures, Center for Digital and Sound Cultures. He is the founder and artistic director of the City Sonic International Festival of Sound Arts (since 2003) and the Transnumerics biennial of digital cultures (since 2005) in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

He has been the artistic curator of many other contemporary, sound, hybrid and digital arts events in Europe and internationally. He is the coordinator of the European Pepinieres of Creation in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. He also teaches image analysis, media and multimedia at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc (Brussels), digital arts at the National School of Visual Arts La Cambre and sound creation at Arts2 (Mons).

From 2010 to 2016, he was responsible for the sound arts, European projects and interdisciplinary creation at the Cross-Border Cultural Center le manège.mons

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